Long story short, a patch got checked in on the trunk before we branched, it caused problems, we noticed it and asked that it got backed out on both the trunk and the 1.2 branch. It got backed out OK on the trunk, but somehow it didn't get fully backed out on the branch...
From the bug: "It looks like the 1.2-branch backout was done incorrectly. The 9 was not
changed to an 8."
But I really don't like the idea that I could be tricked into prefetching stuff I don't want by a simple HTML tag (goatse, copyrighted material and other illegal stuff).
Well, blocking link prefetching from other hosts would not help you any: there are other ways to do that sort of thing. You can load stuff from other hosts via
<img>,
<script>,
<object>, etc. elements. If someone is intent on pushing content to you, they can do it.
It never worked quite right. Either things would get confused and give you hybrid skins (bug 115940), or cause you to crash (bugs 125518, 98359). There are various other bugzilla bugs regarding this, but basically it will be disabled until it works.
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Long story short, a patch got checked in on the trunk before we branched, it caused problems, we noticed it and asked that it got backed out on both the trunk and the 1.2 branch. It got backed out OK on the trunk, but somehow it didn't get fully backed out on the branch...
From the bug: "It looks like the 1.2-branch backout was done incorrectly. The 9 was not changed to an 8."
Sure.
Well, blocking link prefetching from other hosts would not help you any: there are other ways to do that sort of thing. You can load stuff from other hosts via <img>, <script>, <object>, etc. elements. If someone is intent on pushing content to you, they can do it.
Wanna volunteer to fix it?