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  1. Firefox's aggressive prefetching of link: rel=next is a real problem that most developers don't notice until they check their logs, and disabling it for HTML pages is the right call—you're wasting server resources and skewing your metrics on phantom traffic that never converts to actual user navigation. The broader lesson here isn't just about Firefox quirks, it's that link headers meant for machine consumption can have unintended side effects when browsers decide to be "helpful," so you need to be intentional about which user agents actually benefit from your rel=next hints and which ones just hammer your infrastructure for nothing.

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