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DNS Pre-fetch Exposure on Thunderbird and Webmail
- jmount 17y agoMozilla really has to stop this pre-fetch obsession. It was a bad idea when they started it and, given how much malware there is and how many malsites there are, prefetch has become indefensible. I wrote an article a while ago pointing out a Google search plus Firefox prefetch interaction: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/07/should-your-mom-use-google-search/ http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/07/should-your-mom-use-g... .
- pasbesoin 17y agoFully agree. I was disgusted when I learned of the pre-fetching defaults. This reminds me to check whether my custom settings to disable pre-fetch have "stuck" through the most recent updates (Firefox).