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Edds
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Network prefs

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I noticed in about:support that I have modified a few network preferences and when I set them back to default, the settings will be reverted back after browser restart. Is this normal ?
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Re: Network prefs

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I believe there was a recent patch on Nightly that disabled 'prefetch', so very likely what you are seeing true, but... usually the end user can re-enable pref's changed by patches.

EDIT: The pref's you show are not what I'm seeing in latest m-c win32 build. Are those 'your' settings ? or what Firefox is setting.
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Re: Network prefs

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uBlock Origin has settings that force some of the prefetch settings.

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https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=prefetch&type=
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Re: Network prefs

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aah, yes, thank you very much, it is caused by uBlock Origin indeed - in Settings - Privacy there is a checkbox for this
so it sacrifices speed/performance for privacy or?
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Edds wrote:aah, yes, thank you very much, it is caused by uBlock Origin indeed - in Settings - Privacy there is a checkbox for this
so it sacrifices speed/performance for privacy or?
I'm only a noob so somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but yes, I expect it makes a little difference in not pre-loading stuff.
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Predictive prefetch was disabled by a system addon in Firefox 52 (but not ESR), and then again in 55/6/7. However this is just the predictive prefetch that was introduced in Firefox 48 (and caused problems), not network.dns.prefetch.
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I'm okay with Mozilla's decisions, if they think there are some issues. Here I was just talking about "user" modified strings, which was caused by uBlock Origin as we found out.
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