Ah... I had to do some research. I have done a lot more playing around with this. I previous testing was just with daily use, typing things I normally type. The only thing I noted as different since upgrading to these versions was the "Firefox Suggest" and "DuckDuckGo Suggestions" labels. I decided try a few things I normally don't type. I took screenshots of some of my results.

First is a search for "vir", the results are predicable with "Firefox Suggest" and nothing I would consider an ad.

Second is a search for "bali". I was thinking of Indonesia when I typed this. The results surprised me at first, then I realized that the "Firefox Suggest" hits were from Bookmarked sites. So again not ads even though the results are location based hits.


According to this Mozilla page Navigate the Web faster with Firefox Suggest it is not enable in Settings. This is what I have for options:
Based on my testing results and closer look at my settings, I have to say no, Contextual Suggestions is not enabled yet were I live.

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Dear Roman,

I am absolutely convinced that does not bothers you things like "privacy" considering that you put your entire postal address as your Location on this forum, for everybody to know. AND your phone number, just in case.

BTW, on English, our country's official name is: Russian Federation

Please modify for correctness!

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if you want to talk:
http://www.constitution.ru/10003000/10003000-3.htm
translation: https://www-constitution-ru.translat...&_x_tr_pto=nui
also see:
http://kremlin.ru/

you can talk with me, use direct video call and messaging at https://vk.com/dyabaru

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I know that for us the names Russian Federation and Russia are equivalent, both official and colloquial.

BUT, I seen on many English sites from another countries that they call us Russian Federation, unless they talk about something/someone Russian.

For example:

As another example, I bet that our BDFL will argue with us anytime that he lives on United Stated of America and this way is named his country according with The Constitution, BUT we Russians we call his country Соединенные Штаты Америки (Soyedinennyye Shtaty Ameriki transliterated)

Which name is correct? I think that depends on the target audience.

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WOW!

Now this thread had been become really interesting, even it's off-topic AF! But it ever had a topic this thread out of "they watch us" ?

Then, two Russians argues about the true name of their country. With the Russian Constitution on table.

For the non Russian natives, I found their Constitution also in English, French and German, as official translations I think:

http://www.constitution.ru/en/10003000-02.htm
http://www.constitution.ru/fr/part1.htm
http://www.constitution.ru/de/part1.htm

thx

I will move to Russian Federation/Russia

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@ZhaoLin1457

Look, what @Roman Dyaba said is right. The two terms are equivalent, even according with our Constitution.

Here maybe could be added a nuance, in the sense that I have always thought about Russia as The Country and about Russian Federation as The State. And same looks doing the people who I known.

To understand well my point, Russia was always my country - I'm a Russian, but until 30 years ago, the state was named the Soviet Union. And I hope that nobody argues, saying that the Russian Federation is the successor of it.

However, I talked about how the English speaking people from another countries call us. This was my point.

noted the 2 terms are equivalent.

since it's off-track already, reading essays from the red wheel 2 years ago, you encounter enlightening writings on Russia by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
razmychelnia o fevralskoi revolyutsii

"during the night of march 2nd 1917, Petrograd did perish all of Russia , this for more than 75 years" 1980-1983

available in french here
without necessarily going back to a monarchy, there is history before the ussr & the french revolution that we often fail to appreciate, when it is not denied or distorted by some media and activists.
sometime this past history is not much more terrible than the one of the 20st century.

with the keystroke thingy enabled is firefox 93 going to suggest ? russian federation, Russia or Russian Empire all 3 sounds good to me : )

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LuckyCyborg,
Personal attacks on others will not be tolerated.

Came across a "harden Firefox" page... https://brainfucksec.github.io/harde...ep-2021-update

Perhaps interesting for a Slackware Special Edition? Or otherwise...

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Quite a useful link I notice that the author has recently updated that page with a new post on how to change the many about:config parameters (nearly 90 parameters that have to be manually edited) by a easier method of using copy/paste to define the parameters as java script code in the user.js file.


https://brainfucksec.github.io/hardening-firefox-2021

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Other links :

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

The Firefox Privacy Guide for Dummies!

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In the previous 3 posts LQ users have posted some interesting stuff. Some of which I knew about, others I did not.

I have not used Firefox in many years. If a browser that does these things that need to be "hardened" or options modified to try to keep your personal life/data out of the hands of "malicious" entities, how can one trust the browser/developers/supporters in the first place?

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Is this a future that we want?

That we need to harden every piece of software before it respects user's freedom and privacy.

Just for the record - I very much appreciate the work that people do to make Firefox, etc. safer to use.

But the fact that we need to do this in order to get a better and safer user experience, also shows that there's something fundamentally wrong.

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