Re: Firefox checking? links on hover
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 7/6/26 13:26, Samuel Sieb wrote: > 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. It is already set so. I think that I went through the "Firefox Hardening Guide" list at https://brainfucksec.github.io/firefox-hardening-guide and consulted https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections I will see if this continues. -- Eyal at Home ([email protected]) -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new