Firefox 40

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Growing Little Guru
http://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-tr...=nl.e703&s_cid=e703&ttag=e703&ftag=CAD090e536

Watch out, Microsoft. Firefox is gunning for its own chunk of the browser space in Windows 10.

Released on Tuesday, Firefox 40 is the latest version of Mozilla's browser and the first designed with Windows 10 in mind yet with its own look and feel. The icons sport greater contrast to better stand out. The screen opens up more real estate for the actual web pages. And a minor renovation paints the top and bottom areas of the browser a more user-friendly gray instead of the standard white.

But it's Firefox's move to assert itself as the default browser that stands out the most in an attempt to challenge Microsoft. In July, Mozilla CEO Chris Beard lashed out at Microsoft for not only making its new Edge browser the default in Windows 10 but also for making it difficult to switch the default to a different browser. In an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Beard called the software giant's action an "aggressive move to override user choice."
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Guess

Cheeky Guru
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If my Puter survives the W X upgrade, then I will see the difference in FF 40, hopefully !
 
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foxidrive

Retired Admin
Unlike older versions of Firefox, more recent versions will make a request to a destination server just by hovering over a link. No CSS, no JavaScript, no prefetch required. Try it for yourself. Disable CSS and JavaScript and fire up iftop or Windows Resource Monitor, hover over some links and watch the fun begin. There once was a time when you hovered over a link to check the 'real link' before you clicked on it. Well no more. Just looking at it makes a 'silent request.' This behavior is the result of the Mozilla speculative connect API . Here is a bug referencing the API when hovering over a thumbnail on the new tab page. And another bug requesting there be an option to turn it off. Strangely enough the latter bug is still labeled WONTFIX even though the solution is in the comments (setting network.http.speculative-parallel-limit to 0).

Firefox's own How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections also mentions setting network.http.speculative-parallel-limit to 0 to to stop predictive connections when a user "hovers their mouse over thumbnails on the New Tab Page or the user starts to search in the Search Bar" but no mention regarding hovering over a normal link. Good thing setting network.http.speculative-parallel-limit to 0 does appear to disable speculative connect on normal links too. One can expect Firefox to make requests in the background to its own servers for things such as checking for updates to plugins etc. But silently making requests to random links on a page (and connecting to those servers) simply by hovering over them is something very different.

Norty Firefox!
 
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