[clug] firefox checks links?

[Peter Barker]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:

> What is firefox doing? I turned off safe-browsing - are there more such 
> safety features in firefox?

DNS Prefetching:
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Controlling_DNS_prefetching

> Is it doing some kind of pre-emptive lookup (how can I disable it then)?

Yes.  There's a config key in there.  My copy of 3.5.2 doesn't have it in 
its list, though.

> Eyal Lebedinsky	(eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)

Yours,
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