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From: s|b on 1 Jun 2010 13:46 On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:47:50 +0000 (UTC), Nemesis wrote: > You just might want to change these too: > > network.dns.disablePrefetch > network.dns.disablePrefetchFromHTTPS Change these? They don't even exist in my settings. You have to create them. > network.prefetch-next Why would one want to change/create these? -- s|b
From: Shadow on 1 Jun 2010 16:02 On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:46:09 +0200, s|b wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:47:50 +0000 (UTC), Nemesis wrote: > >> You just might want to change these too: >> >> network.dns.disablePrefetch >> network.dns.disablePrefetchFromHTTPS > > Change these? They don't even exist in my settings. You have to create > them. They are now enabled by default. They were NOT announced. Someone complained it was relaying all the links in offline pages he had saved to his PC. The cure is to create the values above, set them to true. I can map a persons personality if he saves his favorites to desktop, and opens it in firefox. Every single link is sent to port 53 (easily filtered with wireshark), in wide-open, non encrypted format. Save your bookmarks to bookmarks.html, and open it. With wireshark open. > >> network.prefetch-next > > Why would one want to change/create these? This one slows the computer down a lot. If you do a google search, and opt for 50 results, you will be doing from 50 to 100 dns lookups before choosing the ONE you need. Maybe YOU lack a tin-hat ? maybe a little common sense ? []'s Just because I'm paranoid does not mean they are NOT after me. I was expecting the usual Hummingbird_BareBottom_Clone.
From: s|b on 1 Jun 2010 16:21 On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 20:02:43 +0000 (UTC), Shadow wrote: > I can map a persons personality if he saves his favorites to > desktop, and opens it in firefox. Every single link is sent to port 53 > (easily filtered with wireshark), in wide-open, non encrypted format. > Save your bookmarks to bookmarks.html, and open it. With > wireshark open. My bookmarks are saved in places.sqlite. Why would save my bookmarks as HTML on my desktop? > >> network.prefetch-next > > Why would one want to change/create these? > This one slows the computer down a lot. If you do a google > search, and opt for 50 results, you will be doing from 50 to 100 dns > lookups before choosing the ONE you need. How many nanoseconds does that take? -- s|b
From: Shadow on 1 Jun 2010 22:19 On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:21:35 +0200, "s|b" <me(a)privacy.invalid> wrote: >On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 20:02:43 +0000 (UTC), Shadow wrote: > >> I can map a persons personality if he saves his favorites to >> desktop, and opens it in firefox. Every single link is sent to port 53 >> (easily filtered with wireshark), in wide-open, non encrypted format. >> Save your bookmarks to bookmarks.html, and open it. With >> wireshark open. > >My bookmarks are saved in places.sqlite. Why would save my bookmarks as >HTML on my desktop? I open about:config and alter this preference to true browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML So when you close firefox, you export an bookmarks.html file to your profile folder. If you make that your start page, and put your favorite bookmarks at the top, you will always start up firefox with all your favorites one click away. As I have almost 1000 bookmarks, this is very practical, for human-readable archival purposes too. > >> >> network.prefetch-next > >> > Why would one want to change/create these? > >> This one slows the computer down a lot. If you do a google >> search, and opt for 50 results, you will be doing from 50 to 100 dns >> lookups before choosing the ONE you need. > >How many nanoseconds does that take? According to my analogx fastcache, this year I saved over 14 hours by caching DNS entries. Tiny program, easy to set up. Try it. http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/Network/fc/Freeware.htm []'s
From: Ari on 2 Jun 2010 08:49
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:19:53 -0300, Shadow wrote: > As I have almost 1000 bookmarks, *lol* > this is > very practical, *lol* > for human-readable archival purposes too. *LOLOLOL* -- http://bearbottomsatplay.notlong.com |