The app connects to "www.google.com" on startup even though that's not the home page

My application firewall made me notice that responsively connects to www.google.com port 53 on startup. At first I thought it's fine because I can change the default home page, but even after changing the home page responsively is trying to connect to google on startup, and if I block the connection with the firewall the app doesn't start.

I propose removing the hardcoded google.com url from the code because responsively is not an a typical web browser, the user doesn't need a search engine for user experience in my opinion.

Why not greeting the user with a blank page, or even better a message like "Welcome to Responsively, please navigate to your design" or something along those lines.

Indeed Responsively is a great app and I like how much it has improved so far, thanks!

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To reproduce:

• open responsively, navigate to the design url
• establish that url as home page
• restart responsively, a request for google is made on start but responsively loads the design url, and the design url is shown as the default home page.

[jjavierdguezas]

Hi @personaaleatoria , thanks for your suggestion
I agree that if the user sets a default page then it should be the one (and only) loaded on startup
On #533 we are working on setting a "blank page" as default on startup, maybe we can fix this there
@manojVivek @bikingbadger

[jjavierdguezas]

Thanks @Zoeinfp, I'm assigning this to you

[VicFinistere]

Thanks @Zoeinfp, I'm assigning this to you

I was not able to reproduced it because I didn't see any request to google... I'll try another one!