Datasette will stop serving `link: rel=next` HTTP headers to Firefox on HTML pages because Firefox automatically prefetches the linked page even though only a tiny fraction of users actually click through. Simon Willison noted this behavior dates back to a Firefox bug open for 24 years, which he first complained about in his own blog post in 2002.
Background
Datasette is an open-source tool by Simon Willison for exploring and publishing tabular data via a web interface. Firefox's long-standing prefetch behavior for `rel=next` headers has caused similar concerns across the web community for years.
- Source
- Simon Willison
- Published
- Nov 8, 2026 at 07:57 AM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10