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Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers

Posted by Zonk on from the two-great-tastes-that-go-great-together dept.

kv9 writes "A post on GoogleBlog reveals that Google has enabled results prefetching for Mozilla based browsers, which means that the top results of queries are being loaded in the background and pages will load faster. More info on the Mozilla Prefetching FAQ and the Google Webmaster FAQ"

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  1. Re:Not a good idea by lbmouse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes... FTA:
    In Firefox, you can disable prefetching by doing the following:

    1. Type "about:config" in the address bar.
    2. Scroll down to the setting "network.prefetch-next" and set the value to "False".

  2. How to turn off in firefox by MarsBar · · Score: 1, Redundant

    type about:config into the address bar and scroll down to the network.prefetch-next entry. Ensure that this is set to false.