How To Block Fasterfox Requests

By Peter | Published: February 18, 2006

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”:

  1. User-agent: Fasterfox
  2. Disallow: /

Adding these two lines somewhere in your robots.txt file and placing it in the root folder will prevent Fasterfox from pre-fetching links anywhere on your site. (ex: yourwebsite.com/robots.txt) Webmasters can modify the text so that Fasterfox will only be prevented from pre-fetching on specified directories.

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One Comment

  1. error
    Posted February 21, 2006 at 4:57 pm | Permalink

    don’t steal
    link to the source
    http://www.skattertech.com/2006/02/how-to-block-fasterfox-requests/