is there a way that i can tell if firefox is prefetching?

Question

I turned off prefetching and just want to confirm that firefox has stopped prefetching. is there a way that i can check? i tried looking at the cookies and network activity, but still couldn't tell. thanks!

Answer 1

As long as you've disabled network.prefetch-next in about:config, Firefox should stop prefetching links.

You can check this by observing the request headers you're sending to potentially prefetched links by checking the Network tab in your Firefox Dev tools or a Packet Analyzing software like Fiddler.