Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes
by tedmielczarek on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:30PM
(#7422899)
If your search bar is your URL bar, then all your keystrokes (even when typing URLs) go to your search provider to provide autocomplete of search results. In Firefox you can type URLs without having them sent to a third-party. We think this is important. (You can get autocomplete search results by typing in the search bar.)
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This is why it surprised me that, as I understand it, the Firefox OS homescreen search bar seems to take exactly the opposite approach: every keystroke is sent to some obscure for-profit private company in Israel. Do you know what's up with that?
You could handle this with configuration, as others have.
Edit: judging from the other comments, maybe you have already.
Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes
by marcosdumay on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @02:54PM
(#7424126)
No, you can not.
If you don't have a separated search bar, your only options are enabling or disabling autocomplete. There is no option of using autocomplete just when you want it.
Also, the local autocomplete of the address bar is great. Count me as another one that does not want to miss it.