I just learned that the Public Suffix List is actually a Mozilla project! Tangential remark: We know that Chrome isn't the most privacy-conscious browser, but it's also a fact that the Chrome team takes security very seriously and has put their money where their mouth is in that regard. It's not sufficient to blindly follow their lead on all things, but it is definitely a useful signal to consider and weighs in favor of adopting the PSL approach.
An observation: currently for someone intending to search for `browserconfig.xml` (with the separate search bar hidden), the process of typing in `browserconfig.xml` in the address bar and quickly hitting enter (yay muscle memory!) without considering that it is going to NXDOMAIN, having to then go back to the search bar, type in `browserconfig.xml` again and then go through the chore of identifying which drop-down autocomplete entry should be used to invoke a search rather than a navigation is considerably longer than the time it takes to perform either a search or a DNS query in the background. The point being, it's not a good idea to simultaneously perform both a DNS lookup and initiate a search (for privacy reasons) and sequentially performing these tasks one after the other in case of a failure of the first does not result in a user unfriendly UX due to the delay/lack of parallelization. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263505 Title: Wishlist: add "use input as a search term" to "address not found" page Status in Mozilla Firefox: Confirmed Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox Altogether too often when I get the "Address Not Found" page, it is because I expected too much from the Wonderful Bar or whatever it's called. It would be a useful addition if the "Address Not Found" page could offer the option to use the stuff you typed into the location bar as input for your designated search engine, and/or perform history search on those terms. (For me, the former is the more useful, but I expect both would be handy, and the effort to offer both is probably marginal if you decide to do one or the other.) All to often, what you typed in is no longer visible in the location bar, because http:// gets prepended and sometimes a .com appended to what is displayed in the location bar at the point you get the "Address Not Found" error. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/263505/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
