As Firefox use grows all becomes well with the web. Flowers grow, birds sing, cats and dogs play Texas Hold-em together. Well, almost. The use of fasterfox is also increasing, it is the third most popular plugin for Firefox. It downloads all links on a page in the background, sucking bandwidth out of your server. When you are running on a shoestring – or piece of string found in the road in my case – this is not so good, as your bandwidth use skyrockets. However it is simple enough to stop:

Fasterfox is in fact one of the most popular extensions for Firefox. It is currently ranked as the 3rd most downloaded extension for Firefox on Mozilla Update page. (aka. Firefox Add-ons) The latest version of Fasterfox, v1.0.3, checks the for the robots.txt file on the site the viewer is visiting to check whether it should pre-fetch or not. This new feature allows webmasters to add the following text (in bold) to their robots.txt file to prevent Fasterfox from pre-fetching links. Text To Add To “robots.txt”:

User-agent: Fasterfox
Disallow: /

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