Firefox network prediction must be disabled.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
If network prediction is enabled, requests to URLs are made without user consent. The browser should always make a direct DNS request without prefetching occurring.
- ID
- SV-251566r879587_rule
- Version
- FFOX-00-000022
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Windows group policy:
1. Open the group policy editor tool with "gpedit.msc".
2. Navigate to Policy Path: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Mozilla\Firefox
Policy Name: Network Prediction
Policy State: Disabled