Firefox (Google) Prefetching

01Jan06

When you search Google now you’re getting all sorts of prefetch cookies and god-knows-what-else so put an end to this, now. Type about:config in the address bar and change the value of network.prefetch-next to false.
More info:

http://www.google.com/help/features.html#prefetch

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/Link_Prefetching_FAQ.html

Or even better :)

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum39/3227.htm

.. speed up Firefox by disabling IPv6, set – about:config – network.dns.disableIPv6 to true (doubleclick).

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