Add a Firefox tweak to disable autocomplete URL preloading #317

2017-08-11T17:11:10Z

sbennett1990 commented

2017-08-11 17:11:10 +00:00

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Description

Firefox 56 will introduce a new feature called "Speculative Connect" which attempts to preload URLs that are autocompleted in the awesome bar. Firefox says it will only do the server DNS lookup and TCP and TLS handshake but not start sending or receiving HTTP data. This could indeed be a performance boost, but it could also be a privacy concern.

Note that this should not be merged until Firefox 56 is released, scheduled for 2017-09-26.

Inspiration: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/07/24/disable-preloading-firefox-autocomplete-urls/
More Technical Details: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348275

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### Description Firefox 56 will introduce a new feature called "Speculative Connect" which attempts to preload URLs that are autocompleted in the awesome bar. Firefox says it will only do the server DNS lookup and TCP and TLS handshake but not start sending or receiving HTTP data. This could indeed be a performance boost, but it could also be a privacy concern. Note that this should not be merged until Firefox 56 is released, scheduled for 2017-09-26. Inspiration: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/07/24/disable-preloading-firefox-autocomplete-urls/ More Technical Details: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348275 ### HTML Preview http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/sbennett1990/privacytools.io/blob/master/index.html

privacytoolsIO commented

2017-08-12 11:14:12 +00:00

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thanks

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Reference: privacyguides/privacytools.io#317