We’re working on a new feature to display direct results in your address bar as you type, so that you can skip the results page and get to the right site
They want to send more data, but spent time to reduce the privacy impact with this feature. Data is still going somewhere that is not my computer and Mozilla is trying to force it as the new norm.
Not a needed feature nor a requested one
It reads to me like the idea is to avoid sending data to search engines?
They want to send more data, but spent time to reduce the privacy impact with this feature. Data is still going somewhere that is not my computer and Mozilla is trying to force it as the new norm. Not a needed feature nor a requested one
Literally every other browser does this, and it’s a useful feature the vast majority of people.
Assuming the user is fine with sending data to the search engine they’re using to make the search is a pretty safe assumption.