Re: prefetch from chrome partial omnibox results

Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.netlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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