On Jun 2, 2016, at 3:39 PM, Always Learning <centos at u68.u22.net> wrote: > > When the Internet is working, I never had a problem. So perhaps you are > correct, Firefox is sending local domain names and everything typed into > Firefox's URL slot to Google for people monitoring purposes ;-) > > How can one disable this latest privacy abusing tactic ? Go to Settings > Search and uncheck “Provide search suggestions”. Or alternately just make sure that “Show search suggestions in location bar results” is turned off. (Not sure whether it is on by default...)