Speculation Rules Testbench by Sky Ning
Inspect Firefox Speculation Rules, record speculative requests, run a blocked-prefetch control, and export the evidence.
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About this extension
Speculation Rules Testbench adds a dedicated panel to Firefox DevTools for investigating navigational prefetch behavior on real websites.
The panel can:
The extension is intended for browser engineers, performance investigators, and web developers. It is an investigation tool, not a performance benchmark: single runs should not be treated as statistically meaningful performance results.
Captured data remains in the local extension process. Nothing is uploaded automatically.
The panel can:
- find and classify inline Speculation Rules;
- identify list, immediate, same-origin prefetch targets supported by the
Firefox Milestone 1 implementation; - capture speculative and top-level request lifecycles;
- show
Sec-Purpose, completion status, cache headers, cache hits, Navigation
Timing, anddeliveryTypewhen Firefox exposes it; - compare normal behavior with a control that blocks speculative prefetches;
- enforce a matching source/target pair and explicit cache isolation; and
- export a privacy-sanitized JSON report.
The extension is intended for browser engineers, performance investigators, and web developers. It is an investigation tool, not a performance benchmark: single runs should not be treated as statistically meaningful performance results.
Captured data remains in the local extension process. Nothing is uploaded automatically.
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Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Clear recent browsing history, cookies, and related data
- Extend developer tools to access your data in open tabs
- Access browser tabs
Optional permissions:
- Access your data for all websites
Data collection:
- The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
More information
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- Version
- 1.4.0
- Size
- 28.42 KB
- Last updated
- 4 days ago (Sep 18, 2026)
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- License
- Mozilla Public License 2.0
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