Re: prefetch from chrome partial omnibox results
Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]>
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On 1/6/12 8:28 PM, Eric H. Jung wrote: > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Patrick McManus<[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'll note that when I just tried to prefetch the dns from our awesomebar >> I got privacy pushback. >> > > Don't let them spoil Firefox for the rest of us. If such people are > concerned about DNS prefetches compromising their privacy They're worried about DNS prefetches compromising the privacy of nontechnical users who have no idea what the heck a proxy server is and would run screaming from mentions of DNS and SOCKS... but who may still care about their privacy. Resolving this tension is hard, yes. -Boris