Re: prefetch from chrome partial omnibox results

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
I understand. But there are other, older decisions that trade privacy for
improved user experience. I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but I
do think privacy advocates are a special-interest group that can be
satisfied through addons/extensions, rather than default behavior that
sacrifices improved user experience for the masses. There are a host of
actively-developed addons that, if provided the right hooks, could disable
DNS prefetch.

Eric