Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads

certron wrote to alert us that earlier this week, Mozilla passed the milestone of 25 million downloads. From the official site: "With a minimal set of tools--an affiliate system, a small donations fundraising system, blogs, galleries, forums, and the good old human larynx--you all are spreading Firefox to a quarter of a million people a day. More than 500,000 sites now link to Firefox according to Google--a fivefold increase from six months ago. What was just a small flame 100 days ago has since exploded into a phenomenal demonstration of the power of open source. Tens of thousands of devoted users and fans are a powerful and capable force of change. We have created a special commemorative image if you would like to mark this milestone on your own site." Reader asa also wrote to mention an interview with Bill Gates from this week where the mogul was asked directly what he thought of Firefox.

Comments

Turning off URL bar autocomplete?

[jbn-o]

I'd like to turn off autocompletion in the URL bar. I don't want to turn off my history, I don't want to set my history to 0 day retention, but I am willing to run an extension. I don't want to do these other things because they don't work and they have ugly side-effects I don't want.

Mozilla suite made it easy to accomplish this. Firefox appears to have no mechanism for doing this at all, nor do I know of any about:config preference to change to make URL bar autocompletion go away.

I don't like URL bar autocompletion because it gives away where I have been browsing. When I browse with my laptop, I'm not interested in advertising to onlookers where I've been.

Any tips on applicable extensions or settings?

Thanks.