?Possibly a reference to: Firefox search by default - #10 by irvinewade and that topic in general.
My goal in that specific post in that topic is that, for example, if I type “dog” in the Address bar, nothing will be sent to the internet -
- not a search for “dog” (whether that search is handled by Google or Bing or anyone else) and
- not a DNS lookup involving various attempts to make “dog” into the likely intended fully qualified domain name.
The only thing that will happen is that it will ask my local DNS server to resolve “dog” as a host on the local network (which in my case will fail, there isn’t an Internet of Animals yet).
However that assumes that the person is running a local DNS server e.g. PiHole. Without that, a single DNS lookup (of dog.) may escape to the internet - or another DNS server may apply default suffixes. That is, just because I stopped Firefox applying default suffixes, doesn’t stop a DNS server applying default suffixes elsewhere.
Merely expressing an opinion here: It is requiring more and more settings in about:config to get decent behaviour from Firefox i.e. the defaults are getting further away from what I would consider desirable from a security / privacy point of view - but I understand that what I consider desirable may not align with what anyone else does. It is also possible that I am becoming more knowledgeable about what you can adjust with config settings i.e. that previously I didn’t even know you could, so I just put up with the behaviour.