[Bug 263505]

[Mqudsi-o]

I just learned that the Public Suffix List is actually a Mozilla
project!

Tangential remark: We know that Chrome isn't the most privacy-conscious
browser, but it's also a fact that the Chrome team takes security very
seriously and has put their money where their mouth is in that regard.
It's not sufficient to blindly follow their lead on all things, but it
is definitely a useful signal to consider and weighs in favor of
adopting the PSL approach.

An observation: currently for someone intending to search for
`browserconfig.xml` (with the separate search bar hidden), the process
of typing in `browserconfig.xml` in the address bar and quickly hitting
enter (yay muscle memory!) without considering that it is going to
NXDOMAIN, having to then go back to the search bar, type in
`browserconfig.xml` again and then go through the chore of identifying
which drop-down autocomplete entry should be used to invoke a search
rather than a navigation is considerably longer than the time it takes
to perform either a search or a DNS query in the background. The point
being, it's not a good idea to simultaneously perform both a DNS lookup
and initiate a search (for privacy reasons) and sequentially performing
these tasks one after the other in case of a failure of the first does
not result in a user unfriendly UX due to the delay/lack of
parallelization.

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Title:
  Wishlist: add "use input as a search term" to "address not found" page

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