Fasterfox checks robots.txt where a webmaster can disable features which make Fasterfox so great, Here it has been edited to disable this robots.txt checking so that now if you use this Fasterfox your speeds will be increased on all websites regardless! Read more
I am all for a user being able to use FasterFox to prefetch information, but it does come at a cost to the web site owner. The FasterFox authors knew that their plugin can and will lead to higher server loads, more bandwidth usage, and slower page loads for everyone else. That is why they put in the option to disable this plugin on a site by site basis! I cannot believe that someone would want to purposely disable this feature! They have the nerve to say ” I decided that people need faster speeds and the server shouldn’t be able to easily disable this :P”, it’s my server, it’s my web site, and it’s my decision to not let you abuse it!
This kind of attitude is what drives people to not share information and in the end hurts the Internet as a whole! It seems a lot of people think running a web site is cheap and that they can use all of the resources they can to make their seem experience better without thinking of anyone else!
Also if you administer a web site and wish to block the normal Fasterfox plugin just add this to your robotos.txt
User-agent: Fasterfox
Disallow: /
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