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Some more detail about automatic connections
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* Disables various your-browser-knows-better-let-me-guess-what-you-were-trying features
* Disable this [keyword thingie](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.enabled)
* Disable [Domain Guessing](http://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/domain-guessing.html)
* Disable [search suggestions](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.search.suggest.enabled)

### Extensions / plugins related

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### Automatic connections

This section disables some of Firefox's [automatic connections](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections).

* Disables prefetching
* [network.prefetch-next](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.prefetch-next)
* [network.dns.disablePrefetch](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.dns.disablePrefetch)
* Disable [Necko](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Reviews/Necko)/predictor
* Disable [search suggestions](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.search.suggest.enabled)

Do note, that some automatic connections are still intentionally left out (as in not disabled), namely the following:

* [browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled)
* [plugins.update.notifyUser](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.6/Plugin_Update_Awareness_Security_Review)
* ```extensions.update.enabled```

See also [#20](https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/issues/20).

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