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by andinus 2110 days ago
If you have search suggestions enabled then "http:" will be sent. Firefox disables them in Private Browsing mode for this reason.

- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-suggestions-fire...
2 comments
reificator 2110 days ago
No I get that part.

I guess I just had a different interpretation of "no requests are made to Google". It seems "no requests" was intended to be "no search suggestion requests" and not "no requests that leak this information to google".

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MaxBarraclough 2110 days ago
> If you have search suggestions enabled then "http:" will be sent

What's the point of sending those characters?

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antsar 2110 days ago
Search Suggestions. You typed "h", maybe you want to search for "harpoons". "ht" might suggest "htaccess". "http" might be a search for "httpie". etc.
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MaxBarraclough 2110 days ago
Yes, of course :-P
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