The functionality covered by browser.urlbar.dnsResolveSingleWordsAfterSearch adds quite a bit of complexity, to end up showing users a notification bar to convert a single word search into an intranet allowlist. In practice the pref is disabled by default, and the most common path to enable is probably through enterprice policies. There's potentially better alternatives in directly setting allowlists (maybe not handy for policies?), and `browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words` It is apparently in telemetry environment, so we can write a query to check how often it's being used.
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The functionality covered by browser.urlbar.dnsResolveSingleWordsAfterSearch adds quite a bit of complexity, to end up showing users a notification bar to convert a single word search into an intranet allowlist, that can be annoying for the user. In practice the pref is disabled by default, and the most common path to enable is probably through enterprice policies. There's potentially better alternatives in directly setting allowlists (maybe not handy for policies?), and `browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words` It is apparently in telemetry environment, so we can write a query to check how often it's being used.