On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 06:08:39PM -0400, rhkra...@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, rhkra...@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.