Join the Mozilla’s Test Days event from 9–15 Jan to test the new Firefox address bar on Firefox Beta 135 and get a chance to win Mozilla swag vouchers! 🎁

Avatar for Username

Hilfe durchsuchen

Vorsicht vor Support-Betrug: Wir fordern Sie niemals auf, eine Telefonnummer anzurufen, eine SMS an eine Telefonnummer zu senden oder persönliche Daten preiszugeben. Bitte melden Sie verdächtige Aktivitäten über die Funktion „Missbrauch melden“.

Weitere Informationen

Dieses Thema wurde archiviert. Bitte stellen Sie eine neue Frage, wenn Sie Hilfe benötigen.

How can I stop firefox from sending requests as I type in address bar?

  • 1 Antwort
  • 1 hat dieses Problem
  • 19 Aufrufe
  • Letzte Antwort von philipp

shx2
shx2
more options

Everytime I start typing a url/something else in the address bar, firefox initiates a request to the site it autocompletes to, as I type.

E.g. if I type "cn" and it completes to "cnn.com", it also sends a request to cnn.com.

I know that because I'm also using LittleSnitch.

I would like to disable this request-sending-on-auto-completion feature for 2 reasons: 1. privacy -- why should anyone know something about what I'm typing as I type it? 2. usability -- the LittleSnitch window keeps popping up, shifting the focus away from the address bar as I type.

How can I disable it?

Everytime I start typing a url/something else in the address bar, firefox initiates a request to the site it autocompletes to, as I type. E.g. if I type "cn" and it completes to "cnn.com", it also sends a request to cnn.com. I know that because I'm also using LittleSnitch. I would like to disable this request-sending-on-auto-completion feature for 2 reasons: 1. privacy -- why should anyone know something about what I'm typing as I type it? 2. usability -- the LittleSnitch window keeps popping up, shifting the focus away from the address bar as I type. How can I disable it?

Ausgewählte Lösung

hi shx2, the network connection is opened to fetch a favicon of the address you're entering, this however is a bug which will be fixed in firefox 44 that is going to be released next week... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233982

Diese Antwort im Kontext lesen 👍 1

Alle Antworten (1)

philipp
philipp
  • Moderator
more options

Ausgewählte Lösung

hi shx2, the network connection is opened to fetch a favicon of the address you're entering, this however is a bug which will be fixed in firefox 44 that is going to be released next week... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233982