Open your "hosts" file and add a redirect to your local port 127.0.0.1 and that stops any transfer between you and Google's Analytics collector. If you want nothing to do with Google, add "google.com" as well. ;^)
Both 'google-analytics.com' and 'www.google-analytics.com'
That's why it's struck me as strange that either of those addies should be flashing (very quickly) in Firefox's site loading info above the status bar.
Presumably the HOSTS file is blocking connections to all the other sites on that list too, but none of them show up in that info area the way g-a does, at least not that I recall noticing.
Almost as tho it's nothing to do with my machine or my connection request to FR, but somehow part of John's coding that routes traffic out of FR's pipe provider ?
Regardless, it's giving me a headache .. I'm a furnituremaker, not a network guru .. LOL