Change default setting when hovering over links

[ron_1]

Just read this article over at ghacks (link below) about Firefox making connections when you hover over a link. The fix is to go to about:config, find network.http.speculative-parallel-limit, and double-click on the preference and change its value from 6 to 0. So I checked this in Pale Moon and was a little surprised to see that Pale Moon has this enabled by default (the value was "6"). I think it would be a good idea for it to be automatically disabled in future versions of Pale Moon.

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/16/block-firefox-from-connecting-to-sites-when-you-hover-over-links/

[LimboSlam]

Thanks helloimustbegoing.

[Moonchild]

Pale Moon doesn't connect on hover. It will make speculative TCP connections when actually navigating and that is what the pref applies to.

[alex04]

I still dont understand what does this option do in PM? What do you mean with "when navigating"?

When does PM make connections and to what?

[Moonchild]

I'm sorry but I can't give you a full explanation of how the networking back-end works. It's very complex and can't be summarized in a few sentences.
Pale Moon makes connections when navigating: when you actually surf. Not when doing passive page interactions like hovering over a link; that's extremely presumptuous and would cause a lot of unnecessary connections to be made.

[alex04]

Pale Moon makes connections when navigating

what kind of connections and to what?

[squarefractal]

what kind of connections and to what?

*facepalm*
To the website you want to visit.