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rollover on links sends traffic to link address

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OS Mavericks, 38.0.1 Firefox.

When I roll over any link on a webpage Little Snitch throws an alert that Firefox is trying to send traffic to the address associated with the link. This is new behavior in the last month.

I do not have this problem with the Safari browser.

OS Mavericks, 38.0.1 Firefox. When I roll over any link on a webpage Little Snitch throws an alert that Firefox is trying to send traffic to the address associated with the link. This is new behavior in the last month. I do not have this problem with the Safari browser.

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hello, please see the "prefetching" section at How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections

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philipp
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hello, please see the "prefetching" section at How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections