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Old July 2nd 16, 09:19 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default Why does Firefox not respect the HOSTS file in Windows

In message , Jannah Jankowski
writes:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 18:02:41 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

| 10. I just recently learned of Firefox DNS prefetching:
| So I turned it off, changing network.dns.disablePrefetch;true to |
network.dns.disablePrefetch;false |

I hadn't noticed that one. The default seems to be
true, which seems to make sense. Why do DNS lookups for sites you might
not visit?


You must be correct.

I was going crazy turning stuff from true to false, but this is one that
is probably best left at false if we're trying to eliminate Firefox going
to domains that we didn't explicitly state.


Surely if you don't want it to prefetch, then disablePrefetch should be
true?
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