While looking at the output of journalctl -f I noticed that apparently compiz is notified about (and logs) every search I make in the entry bar (or the search bar) in Firefox (but not in Chromium).
Typing into the entry bar something like
results in the following lines in my log
Okt 30 18:24:59 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:24:59 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats"
Okt 30 18:25:06 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats t"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:06 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+t"
Okt 30 18:25:06 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats th"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:06 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+th"
Okt 30 18:25:06 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats the"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:06 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+the"
Okt 30 18:25:07 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats the"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:07 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+the"
Okt 30 18:25:08 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats the m"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:08 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+the+m"
Okt 30 18:25:08 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats the ma"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:08 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+the+ma"
Okt 30 18:25:09 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats the mat"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:09 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+the+mat"
Okt 30 18:25:09 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats the matt"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:09 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+the+matt"
Okt 30 18:25:09 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats the matte"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:09 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+the+matte"
Okt 30 18:25:09 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats the matter"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:09 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+the+matter"
Okt 30 18:25:10 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats the matter?"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:10 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+the+matter%3F"
Okt 30 18:25:21 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats the matter?"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:21 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+the+matter%3F"
Okt 30 18:25:23 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: In data: "whats the matter?"; Purpose: "keyword"
Okt 30 18:25:23 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getSubmission: Out data: "whats+the+matter%3F"
It does not matter which search provider I have selected. I would like to know what settings cause this behavior of compiz and how to prevent this.
In my opinion it is none of compiz's business what I type into a search bar in my webbrowser.
I do know that it is possible to circumvent this by entering search expressions directly into the search field of any search provider but that's not what I am after.
Upon further research I found the following additional lines in my log (after login):
Okt 30 17:37:30 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: SearchService.init
Okt 30 17:37:30 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _asyncInit start
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _asyncLoadEngines: start
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _asyncFindJAREngines: looking for engines in JARs
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _asyncLoadEngines: loading from cache directories
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _loadEnginesFromCache: Loading 7 engines from cache
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _addEngineToStore: Adding engine: "Google"
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _addEngineToStore: Adding engine: "DuckDuckGo"
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _addEngineToStore: Adding engine: "Amazon.com"
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _addEngineToStore: Adding engine: "Bing"
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _addEngineToStore: Adding engine: "Twitter"
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _addEngineToStore: Adding engine: "Wikipedia (en)"
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _addEngineToStore: Adding engine: "Yahoo"
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _asyncLoadEngines: done
Okt 30 17:37:31 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _asyncInit: Completed _asyncInit
Okt 30 17:37:33 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: SearchService.init
Okt 30 17:37:49 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: SearchService.init
Okt 30 17:37:49 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getVisibleEngines: getting all visible engines
Okt 30 17:37:49 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _buildSortedEngineList: building list
Okt 30 17:37:49 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: _buildSortedEngineList: using db for order
Okt 30 17:37:49 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: SRCH_SVC_saveSortedEngineList: starting
Okt 30 17:37:49 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: SRCH_SVC_saveSortedEngineList: done
Okt 30 17:37:53 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: SearchService.init
Okt 30 17:37:53 big compiz[9072]: *** Search: getVisibleEngines:
getting all visible engines
Settings/Security and Privacy/Search ("when searching in the dash...") is off.
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