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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by a254613e on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:40PM (#15697877)
With their recent testing of Cliqz integration I doubt they're really committed a lot to protecting users privacy.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421708

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by johndoe489 on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @09:02AM (#15703752)
Isn't that turned off when you disable "search suggestions"?

I don't like search suggestions even in Chrome. I find it makes the omnibar less useful.

The omnibar was the game changer for me when Chrome did it. I never have many tabs open as I can recall anything I've visited previously by typing a few words. More often than not what I want is one of the first suggestions.

So to help with this, I turn off search suggestions since they are not relevant to my past browser activity. I also got in the habit of frequently using Private window so that my History has more relevant content. It's great and I'm confident I don't need to bookmark a lot.

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