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More technical information about the new protection feature can be found here. How does redirect tracking work? Daily Newsletter - E-mail sent every business day with a recap of the last 24 hours.
Download and install this plugin that prevents automatic redirects. Link 1. There are redirects that appear to take you one place and take you somewhere else, which is like a form of malware. There are also redirects that eventually get you to where you expect to go, but get there via intermediate links that may be designed to track or to generate referral revenue.
The second type may or may not be something people object to as a matter of principle, but these are often blocked by the browser, making them at least an annoyance. You can handle redirects with warnings and opting-in. That is a good strategy if you rarely use web services that normally redirect as part of their operating model. However, if you frequent sites and services that redirect, the warning and opt-in requirement can become a pain in the butt.
In that case, you can deal with it by using an add-on that identifies the ultimate destination and takes you directly there. Firefox Quantum came out since this question was posted, so many of the legacy add-ons for this no longer work.
I've tested several replacements for the legacy add-ons, and one I've found that seems to work well actually better than the legacy add-ons I used , is Skip Redirect by Sebastian Blask. Dangerous sites tend to be blocked by the browser, anyway, but if you do get redirected to a site that isn't as represented, you can add it to the blacklist. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Prevent automatic redirects in Firefox Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 9 months ago. Active 2 years, 3 months ago. Viewed k times. How can I get the old behavior back and block automatic redirects? I guess it's still better than chrome, the last updated UI design was nice.
This is sort of off-topic, but I suggest bookmarking the pages for any tech tips you adopt so you can track those things down later. Thanks I'm not sure how it got turned on then because I know I went into preferences and toggled it, maybe it synced from another older browser? I have a text file with all the about:config fixes that need to be changed on installing a new system, I just haven't gotten to it on the new system.
There used to be some really nice pages that had nice documentation to what some of the settings did and their respective options, but they don't show up when searching for a string or setting. So I'm left with scrolling the Internet for interpreted articles that don't quite know what they're talking about but vaguely list with the function does. Move or resize popup windows dom.
Raise or lower windows dom. Disable or replace context menus dom. This option controls whether JavaScript can be used to display custom text in the status bar. Customize Firefox Printing Defaults print. Do not load pinned tabs on launch until selected browser. Do not load tabs on launch until selected browser. Why in the world, after this last update, when I click a bookmarked page or a link I saved to a website, it always refreshes and tries to redirect to another main page on that website?
It happens with almost all websites I visit that I have bookmarks for or saved links to. I always have to click to go back to the original page I wanted.
I would say it would be convenient if the page would not exist anymore, but that's not the case. I find this feature not only intrusive but also very annoying.
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