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You NEED to Know about Firefox Speculative Pre-Connections and How to Disable It

Posted on 8/28/20158/28/2015 by The Internet Patrol

Earlier this year Firefox ramped up its speculative pre-connections ‘feature’ (which some call “predictive preconnections”), so that when you even just hover over a link or thumbnail, Firefox may start preloading certain parts of the linked page (this is different from prefetching). Here’s how to disable it.

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