From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 14 19:41:47 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9160AB99CC3 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:41:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brandon.wandersee@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-f51.google.com (mail-it0-f51.google.com [209.85.214.51]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6664D18A5 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:41:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brandon.wandersee@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-f51.google.com with SMTP id h190so1387599ith.1 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:41:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:references:user-agent:from:to:cc:subject :in-reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=naHOn6nMXeQvUL+F1QRec09Z1jz9QFMuU45JPinytb0=; b=DqHbP+l8PZv7VqpIbHYwc7RncE6g6JFBKw3N4MDcg/eBh0CPlRTw9r0IUTA7rmvvXY lBct7Tz5w/4cuk+8REnfraMI7WCQgXOfBEL3fuqGIBExpZr4Zh5INVUUO4um2/j3B8rG 6ps15IbTT1XUb3Fm70I9caZpwJXBd4EWNYT/8qEzieo2bJJbElh5U6g2BIOrPQtEzaB2 1t9XlJOREX9oO2dOIBaFckg4dtnh2smfO/IDZnv9LXSQEydDJhtp1faQDzYzGBG1O9r7 SC0RWS74T6+cyuXPcNTmm0aZFrOBrwtW2IBvz1NHCpfp9uFy2Z5KPQ5GB8v/SuD1rZE9 PI0Q== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tJzKVRZbpTG6T+f+35cc/cR9KnCF0AMov78Ay2Ua822vdUMDV7EkD4P99Qpk6Ejvw== X-Received: by 10.36.71.143 with SMTP id t137mr16862298itb.0.1468525305847; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from WorkBox.Home.gmail.com (174-30-249-211.mpls.qwest.net. [174.30.249.211]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l1sm15130520ite.4.2016.07.14.12.41.44 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:41:44 -0700 (PDT) References: <5e4a20fe-51a4-ac10-4f72-23fcc3d04c15@hiwaay.net> <20160714002117.224b64ae@archlinux.localdomain> <8cd76e2e-ed11-7b3b-be75-de6bb4dcc092@hiwaay.net> <20160714063744.snaqwdbmzhd4ndb5@dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> User-agent: mu4e 0.9.16; emacs 24.5.1 From: Brandon J. Wandersee To: =?utf-8?Q?Dani=C3=ABl?= de Kok Cc: "William A. Mahaffey III" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question In-reply-to: <20160714063744.snaqwdbmzhd4ndb5@dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:41:45 -0500 Message-ID: <86r3awnh1i.fsf@WorkBox.Home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:41:47 -0000 Daniël de Kok writes: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:14:26PM +0000, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> OK, but where is that history kept, & how do they associate past & current >> searches ? > > I think that there are two possibilities: > > 1. You see a correlation that does not really exist - Google is just > suggesting probably completions of a query, and other people search > similar things as you do. That would absolutely be it, since (a) Google and Mozilla are competitors (and therefore Google won't be getting anything from Firefox); and (b) Mozilla switched Firefox's default search engine to Yahoo nearly two years ago, out of concern for users' privacy. The "suggestions" Firefox offers to show you are in-browser completions similar to those used by every search engine out there: start typing, and common/popular searches logged with the search engine are shown in a drop-down completion box. Only these suggestions are instead fetched from the default search engine and shown in the URL/Search bar, in the same way bookmarks and open tabs are. -- :: Brandon J. Wandersee :: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com :: -------------------------------------------------- :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.' :: --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------