[tor-bugs] #3010 [TorBrowserButton]: Torbutton should disable link prefetching

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#3010: Torbutton should disable link prefetching
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 Reporter:  HG2G              |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  defect            |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:           
Component:  TorBrowserButton  |        Version:           
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   Points:                    |   Actualpoints:           
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Comment(by arma):

 I guess the tradeoff here is whether the user experience improves because
 they were probably going to click there, vs whether user experience gets
 worse because of the added network load from everybody prefetching.

 #7656 certainly exacerbates this issue.

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