uBlock Origin Legacy DNS prefetching

[Michaell]

Does "Don't disable DNS prefetching" mean it leaves that up to the browser setting? (I want DNS and all forms of prefetching blocked unless we can allow specific source and target pairs.)

[UCyborg]

Yes, I changed that part because of the discussion here.

Does anyone want a separate switch badly also in uBO's GUI?

[back2themoon]

We are still talking about DNS prefetching, right? Isn't that switch already present in UBO? (first setting under Privacy)

What has recently changed was the default Pale Moon setting, which was getting toggled by uBO's default setting (which was now different).

Pale Moon: DNS prefetching = ON
uBO = OFF

My only suggestion would be to conform uBO's default setting with Pale Moon's. If anyone wants to change it, it's best done manually to avoid confusion. (either in uBO or about:config - shouldn't matter). Or wait, I think you already changed the default in your recent version? (thanks again)

[UCyborg]

The checkbox in uBO Disable pre-fetching (to prevent any connection for blocked network requests) doesn't touch network.dns.disablePrefetch perference anymore, which is tied to the checkbox you find in Pale Moon's preferences dialog (Prefetch DNS lookups).

Note that the checkbox in uBO was only meant to enforce disablement of prefetching (web content), if you turn the checkbox in uBO off, it won't actually enable prefetching in Pale Moon, it would only do that if browser per-fetched by default or you turned prefetching on manually by fiddling in about:config. Pale Moon does not prefetch by default.

Edit: I edited the post bunch of times to make it clear which checkbox is talked about.

[UCyborg]

Note that the checkbox in uBO was only meant to enforce disablement of prefetching (web content)

At least that's how the code works.

[back2themoon]

Perfect, thanks for the clarification.

[Donieck69]

Note that the checkbox in uBO was only meant to enforce disablement of prefetching (web content)

At least that's how the code works.

Hi, I'm learning PHP and Javascript. Will i help you in improving uBlock Origin for Firefox legacy?

[Donieck69]

I forked https://github.com/Donieck/uBlockUXP, so maybe I will improve it, but I still lerninng PHP and Javascript. Suggestions nice seeing.