Comments. NOTE: Older comments have been removed to reduce database overhead. Danny. VG, I'm not seeing that option in Internet Explorer 11. Maybe they removed it. VG ^^ No. Its still there in the latest IE version in Windows 10 Creators Update.

Mozilla - about:config. Here are about:config settings that help to make mozilla more secure. They are only security related. This mean some pages can become broken by these settings. I've had DNS prefetching (network.dns.disablePrefetch = True) in Firefox disabled for as long as I can remember using Firefox. I've also had linked object prefetch (network.prefetch-next) disabled for a long time which has Firefox downloading pages linked in the visited page that I may never visit (i.e., wasted bandwidth, privacy issues). - about network.prefetch-next and network.dns.disablePrefetch: some say to enable prefetch, other to disable it — seems to make sense to save CPU cycles Neither network.dns.disablePrefetchFromHTTPS or network.dns.disablePrefetch is listed in about:config What selection do I use add them as, a String, Integer or Boolean? Jul 17, 2009 · The update is the first security update for Firefox 3.5 which was released at the end of June.. Security isn't the only issue addressed by the update. Mozilla is also tackling a sluggish startup issue for Windows users in Firefox 3.5.1.

Nov 10, 2019 · network.dns.disableprefetch (set to true) network.prefetch-next (set to false) Disable all notifications dom.webnotifications.enabled (set to false)-----Support Switched to Linux!

network.dns.disablePrefetch = true; network.dns.disablePrefetchFromHTTPS = true; network.predictor.enabled = false; network.predictor.enable-prefetch = false; network.prefetch-next = false; network.IDN_show_punycode = true Not rendering IDNs as their Punycode equivalent leaves you open to phishing attacks that can be very difficult to notice Hi I'm using Firefox 77.0.1 64 bit on a Windows PC. I was looking at a post that recommended the following about config settings. Before I made these changes my address bar would allow me to Google search anything I typed, for instance "food". network.dns.disablePrefetch network.dns.disableIPv6 network.dns.disablePrefetch We’re not using IPv6 (nope, not yet we ain’t), and neither do we wish to broadcast every page we might, or might not want to visit, thank you very much. I.e. Set both booleans to true ! Yes, it is possible to make selenium use the TOR browser. I was able to do so on both Ubuntu and Mac OS X. Two things have to happen: Set the binary path to the firefox binary that Tor uses.

network.dns.disablePrefetch; And set this to zero: Network.http.speculative-parallel-limit; And set this to the empty string: browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl; And set these to the word “ignore”: browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone; There. Now Firefox shouldn’t be polluting your Burp Proxy History with requests you didn’t make.

Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation. Firefox is available for many Operating Systems, on desktop and mobile. Jun 09, 2020 · Change network.dns.disablePrefetch to True. Change network.prefetch-next to False. Change the value of network.http.speculative-parallel-limit to 0. 7. Toggle Jul 11, 2018 · There are multiple reasons why VPNs leak. But a leaking VPN is useless. You purchase VPN service for one very simple reason: Hide your IP and protect your data while browsing the Internet or using public Wi-Fi. Leaks completely undermine this vital service, exposing your true location and activities right before the prying eyes of […] Apr 27, 2013 · network.dns.disablePrefetch - if set to true, it will disable DNS prefetching in the browser. network.dns.disablePrefetchFromHTTPS - if set to false, it will enable the DNS prefetching on HTTPS websites. The preference does not exist by default and needs to be created. Speculative Pre-Connections In about:config I set the "network.dns.disablePrefetch" to TRUE; The issue seems firefox-specific. Opera does not give any problem. Pinging to www.google.it works fine (so no DNS problems). I am fine using Opera, but I would also like to understand hwo to fix the issue in Firefox!