diff --git a/dom/base/nsStyleLinkElement.cpp b/dom/base/nsStyleLinkElement.cpp
index 8f72be7ecfca..e73b58b5ee3a 100644
--- a/dom/base/nsStyleLinkElement.cpp
+++ b/dom/base/nsStyleLinkElement.cpp
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include "mozilla/css/Loader.h"
 #include "mozilla/dom/Element.h"
 #include "mozilla/dom/FragmentOrElement.h"
+#include "mozilla/dom/HTMLLinkElement.h"
 #include "mozilla/dom/ShadowRoot.h"
 #include "mozilla/dom/SRILogHelper.h"
 #include "mozilla/Preferences.h"
@@ -435,13 +436,22 @@ nsStyleLinkElement::DoUpdateStyleSheet(nsIDocument* aOldDocument,
                NS_ConvertUTF16toUTF8(integrity).get()));
     }
 
+    // if referrer attributes are enabled in preferences, load the link's referrer
+    // attribute. If the link does not provide a referrer attribute, ignore this
+    // and use the document's referrer policy
+
+    net::ReferrerPolicy referrerPolicy = GetLinkReferrerPolicy();
+    if (referrerPolicy == net::RP_Unset) {
+      referrerPolicy = doc->GetReferrerPolicy();
+    }
+
     // XXXbz clone the URI here to work around content policies modifying URIs.
     nsCOMPtr<nsIURI> clonedURI;
     uri->Clone(getter_AddRefs(clonedURI));
     NS_ENSURE_TRUE(clonedURI, NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY);
     rv = doc->CSSLoader()->
       LoadStyleLink(thisContent, clonedURI, title, media, isAlternate,
-                    GetCORSMode(), doc->GetReferrerPolicy(), integrity,
+                    GetCORSMode(), referrerPolicy, integrity,
                     aObserver, &isAlternate);
     if (NS_FAILED(rv)) {
       // Don't propagate LoadStyleLink() errors further than this, since some
diff --git a/dom/base/nsStyleLinkElement.h b/dom/base/nsStyleLinkElement.h
index a948f099e0b7..408e10a6d0a6 100644
--- a/dom/base/nsStyleLinkElement.h
+++ b/dom/base/nsStyleLinkElement.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include "mozilla/Attributes.h"
 #include "mozilla/CORSMode.h"
 #include "mozilla/CSSStyleSheet.h"
+#include "mozilla/net/ReferrerPolicy.h"
 #include "nsCOMPtr.h"
 #include "nsIStyleSheetLinkingElement.h"
 #include "nsTArray.h"
@@ -113,6 +114,11 @@ protected:
     return mozilla::CORS_NONE;
   }
 
+  virtual mozilla::net::ReferrerPolicy GetLinkReferrerPolicy()
+  {
+    return mozilla::net::RP_Unset;
+  }
+
   // CC methods
   void Unlink();
   void Traverse(nsCycleCollectionTraversalCallback &cb);
diff --git a/dom/html/HTMLLinkElement.h b/dom/html/HTMLLinkElement.h
index e4e8bc89f88f..421b149e961c 100644
--- a/dom/html/HTMLLinkElement.h
+++ b/dom/html/HTMLLinkElement.h
@@ -150,6 +150,18 @@ public:
   {
     SetHTMLAttr(nsGkAtoms::integrity, aIntegrity, aRv);
   }
+  void SetReferrerPolicy(const nsAString& aReferrer, ErrorResult& aError)
+  {
+    SetHTMLAttr(nsGkAtoms::referrerpolicy, aReferrer, aError);
+  }
+  void GetReferrerPolicy(nsAString& aReferrer)
+  {
+    GetEnumAttr(nsGkAtoms::referrerpolicy, EmptyCString().get(), aReferrer);
+  }
+  mozilla::net::ReferrerPolicy GetLinkReferrerPolicy() override
+  {
+    return GetReferrerPolicyAsEnum();
+  }
 
   already_AddRefed<nsIDocument> GetImport();
   already_AddRefed<ImportLoader> GetImportLoader()
diff --git a/dom/webidl/HTMLLinkElement.webidl b/dom/webidl/HTMLLinkElement.webidl
index af53c5824213..ec094e55ece4 100644
--- a/dom/webidl/HTMLLinkElement.webidl
+++ b/dom/webidl/HTMLLinkElement.webidl
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ interface HTMLLinkElement : HTMLElement {
            attribute DOMString hreflang;
   [SetterThrows, Pure]
            attribute DOMString type;
+  [SetterThrows, Pure, Pref="network.http.enablePerElementReferrer"]
+           attribute DOMString referrerPolicy;
   [PutForwards=value] readonly attribute DOMTokenList sizes;
 };
 HTMLLinkElement implements LinkStyle;
diff --git a/uriloader/prefetch/nsPrefetchService.cpp b/uriloader/prefetch/nsPrefetchService.cpp
index caebdc8f25e9..cad6240ae6fe 100644
--- a/uriloader/prefetch/nsPrefetchService.cpp
+++ b/uriloader/prefetch/nsPrefetchService.cpp
@@ -109,9 +109,17 @@ nsPrefetchNode::OpenChannel()
     }
     nsCOMPtr<nsILoadGroup> loadGroup = source->OwnerDoc()->GetDocumentLoadGroup();
     CORSMode corsMode = CORS_NONE;
+    net::ReferrerPolicy referrerPolicy = net::RP_Unset;
     if (source->IsHTMLElement(nsGkAtoms::link)) {
-      corsMode = static_cast<dom::HTMLLinkElement*>(source.get())->GetCORSMode();
+      dom::HTMLLinkElement* link = static_cast<dom::HTMLLinkElement*>(source.get());
+      corsMode = link->GetCORSMode();
+      referrerPolicy = link->GetLinkReferrerPolicy();
     }
+
+    if (referrerPolicy == net::RP_Unset) {
+      referrerPolicy = source->OwnerDoc()->GetReferrerPolicy();
+    }
+
     uint32_t securityFlags;
     if (corsMode == CORS_NONE) {
       securityFlags = nsILoadInfo::SEC_ALLOW_CROSS_ORIGIN_DATA_INHERITS;
@@ -139,7 +147,7 @@ nsPrefetchNode::OpenChannel()
     nsCOMPtr<nsIHttpChannel> httpChannel =
         do_QueryInterface(mChannel);
     if (httpChannel) {
-        httpChannel->SetReferrer(mReferrerURI);
+        httpChannel->SetReferrerWithPolicy(mReferrerURI, referrerPolicy);
         httpChannel->SetRequestHeader(
             NS_LITERAL_CSTRING("X-Moz"),
             NS_LITERAL_CSTRING("prefetch"),