Re: Firefox checking? links on hover

Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/6/26 5:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I have a local HTML file with a list of links. When I open this page in 
> Firefox I see many log messages like this:
>      2026-06-07T09:46:58+10:00 named[1225250]: timed out resolving 
> 'www.google.com/HTTPS/IN': 8.8.8.8#53
> These seem to show up for any link that I pass the mouse over, even 
> briefly.
> 
> Firefox is running in safe-mode (as a test) so no add-ons are involved.
> 
> My private named config nominates 8.8.8.8 as the forwarder.
> 
> I want to stop Firefox from doing this. Just do nothing when the mouse 
> moves across my page.
> 
> How do I stop Firefox making these requests? Not just stopping the timeout.
Go to "about:config" and set "network.http.speculative-parallel-limit" 
to 0.  See if that stops the lookups.

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