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		nwh on April 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Comi... Even if it's turned off you can leak information. Mis-type a local hostname and suddenly your secret URL is public to Google. I've done this more than a few times.

magicalist on April 29, 2014 [–]

That's a different setting. You're looking for "Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors"

nwh on April 29, 2014 | [–]

Different again actually, it's just a failing in the detection of hostname/search term which I couldn't find a setting to disable.

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