Edit: You're right that it's not mentioned in the video. That's part of the problem; it's obviously something people care about and would like to be informed of.
Here is one bug report discussing it - and a "fix" involving stopping the queries in some very specific cases: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1082787
Or how about this direct quote[1] from Mozilla's CTO (where in "e.me" refers to Everything.Me in context):
"So we send an XHR request for each letter to Google on Desktop (search box), and XHR requests to e.me on Firefox OS."
[1] https://lists.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-platform/2014-Octobe...
Edit: You're right that it's not mentioned in the video. That's part of the problem; it's obviously something people care about and would like to be informed of.
Here is one bug report discussing it - and a "fix" involving stopping the queries in some very specific cases: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1082787
Or how about this direct quote[1] from Mozilla's CTO (where in "e.me" refers to Everything.Me in context):
"So we send an XHR request for each letter to Google on Desktop (search box), and XHR requests to e.me on Firefox OS."
[1] https://lists.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-platform/2014-Octobe...