Firefox & Chrome!

I don't mean the one that listed the trackers on the screen, I always disabled that anyway. It just seemed that every time I opened Firefox or SeaMonkey it was 'informing' me of how wonderfully it had updated or upgraded, or something.

Then it started to break pages & stuff. Honestly, I think with NS & RP in combination, Ghostery is essentially redundant.

 

This means Prefetching was turned on all this time before installing RequestPolicy. Now that it's disabled, what benefit in terms of security am I getting?

 

Ah! Okay I think I'm better off without Ghostery. I also have betterprivacy. Is this redundant now that I have ABP, NS and RP?

 

For DNS prefetching

For Link prefetching
I don't really know.
My reason for disabling this two is just it's my preference. It has nothing to do with privacy or security. I have NoScript and RequestPolicy for that.
You could read a more detailed explanation here -http://www.usenix.org/event/leet10/tech/full_papers/Krishnan.pdf

 

I've never actually used that so I don't know. There is a temptation to 'overdo' the security extensions. Unless there's one you really like, or is particularly useful, I would uninstall it for overall lightness of the browser. I may have a look at BetterPrivacy though, it looks interesting.