On Sun, 2026-06-07 at 10:10 +1000, [email protected] wrote: > I have a local HTML file with a list of links. When I open this page > in Firefox I see many log messages like this: > 2026-06-07T09:46:58+10:00 named[1225250]: timed out resolving > 'www.google.com/HTTPS/IN': 8.8.8.8#53 > These seem to show up for any link that I pass the mouse over, even briefly. > > Firefox is running in safe-mode (as a test) so no add-ons are involved. > > My private named config nominates 8.8.8.8 as the forwarder. > > I want to stop Firefox from doing this. Just do nothing when the mouse moves > across my page. > > How do I stop Firefox making these requests? Not just stopping the timeout.
I can imagine a few scenarios... You may have Firefox's Artificial Idiot features enabled, and it may be trying to preview such links. I disabled all the AI stuff. I don't know how much "safe mode" really disables. That's an unusual named log entry (it's not just a domain name), though if you had DNS over HTTPS enabled, I wouldn't expect a local resolver to get any kind of query. Even without plug-ins, Firefox has some content-checking features built into it. I'd recommend going through its settings (the normal ones, for a start). Then maybe some of the hidden from normal sight things in about:config (search for prefetch in them, maybe search for preview, too, perhaps disable some of them) -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
