Re: OT: Strange behavior in Firefox -- google searches start by searching another URL / domain
On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 06:08:39PM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks for the reply -- not quite, comments interspersed below:
>
> On Monday, June 07, 2021 04:38:24 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 04:28:03PM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > > time) when I go to do a google search, the little message down in the
> > > lower left corner of the screen that typically gives messages like
> > > (paraphrased): ~"waiting for google.com" or "loading data from
> > > google.com" (with variations on the URL) sometimes starts with a
> > > completely irrelevant URL (but one that I recognize and that concerns
> > > me).
> >
> > Let's make sure we understand each other completely here. I believe
> > what you are doing is:
> >
> > 1) Open firefox. It has a default or nearly-default configuration.
> >
> > 2) Go to www.google.com.
> >
> > 3) Search for something. Doesn't matter what.
>
> What I see is happening while the google search result page is "populating"
> (or actually waiting for it to start populating), the first thing I see
> (sometimes) is something like ~"waiting for buckslib.org"
It might be firefox pre-fetching pages (or at least verifying they're
actually reachable). Beyond that, I don't know.
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