Originally Posted by Augi

I always thought prefetching was only enabled with the FasterFox add-on.

I found "What is FireFox prefetching?", and it explains that one can edit settings not in the preference screen by opening about:config in a firefox tab. Using prefetch in the filter, one finds what the linked article describes: network.prefetch-next. I have "toggled" the set value and it now says false. To me that implies that prefetching is disabled. Am I wrong?