Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Nov 17 20:19:48 UTC 2014


Nikos Roussos wrote:
> And a user may accidentally start searching on the Google search box
> before she realizes that she sends data to Google "as she types" (that's
> how you get recommendations).

That's also a questionable "feature". Such a text box should not send 
anything before you confirm it.

(And I don't like separate search boxes as a UI element to begin with, I 
like Konqueror's "web shortcuts" feature, where I can just type gg: and my 
search query in the address bar.)

        Kevin Kofler



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