On: Is Firefox Doomed?

[eropple]

> In fact, it's much worse because of all the tracking functionality Google's included.

[citation needed], because as far as I'm aware of there's no such "tracking functionality" anywhere in Chrome.

"In fact," claims like this without proof are pretty shitty.

[MatthewPhillips → eropple]

Everything you type into the address bar is sent to Google's servers as a search query.

[micheljansen → MatthewPhillips]

Only if you turn that on (and by default it is not). See http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=18...

[tchol → MatthewPhillips]

Everything you type into Firefox's search bar is also sent to Google's servers as a search query.

[eropple → MatthewPhillips]

That's not a "tracking feature". That's a feature of the Omnibar that can be disabled, and it's a feature I choose to use because the utility of it outweighs the privacy concern for me.

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