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Relatedly, the default Ubuntu install of Firefox (including in the *ubuntus, like Xubuntu) ensure that everything you type into the location bar (even if you kn
by blahedo 14y ago
Relatedly, the default Ubuntu install of Firefox (including in the *ubuntus, like Xubuntu) ensure that everything you type into the location bar (even if you know exact URLs and don't plan to search!) is sent to Google, Wikipedia, and various other websites. The only way to turn it off, afaict, is to uninstall the Ubuntu extensions from Firefox---which is not at all obvious.
- ThePinion 14y agoAny way you have some proof? I At this point I honestly don't doubt it, but I'd like to see some technical data.
- blahedo 14y agoJust personal experience. When I installed Xubuntu 12.10 (not an upgrade---it was on a machine previously running MacOS only), every time I started to type a URL into Firefox's location bar, the popdown list would include not only history and bookmarks, but results that you'd get from searching google and wikipedia for the sequence of letters typed so far. It updated after every keypress. In the Firefox preferences, the only relevant config option (that I found) was to suggest either/both/none of history and bookmarks, but turning that to "none" meant you only got the search results. Turning off the Ubuntu extensions also turned off the extra search results, so I'm hoping that it also stopped sending my info and didn't just start doing it silently.
- ThePinion 14y agoGood to know. I'll look into it and add it as a suggestion to remove it on my Ubuntu tips/tricks website. Thanks!