Yes you are of course correct, by default it won't but as much as I love you, I don't use the default settings for NS

so just put that out there. That's why I was careful to add that I configured the test
profile install closely to how I had it in the other
profile (minus the whitelisted items). And no, on this
profile, NO ABE rules other than the default LOCAL that comes with it. My hardcore ABE rules are in the profiles where I do sensitive stuff, this
profile is my daily use one, so nothing super fancy, just tightened up and secure but not overtly.
Anyway, back to the topic, yes, I got your email, did everything you suggested and wrote you back a fairly detailed list of stuff. Do you want me to post it here too?
Edit: Decided to go ahead and put it out here even though not sure if we have reached the end of it, but nothing secret about the communication, so will post them here. Some personal elements are sanitized.
> I sent the Diff file, Giorgio's response:
Does resetting
network.proxy.autoconfig_url
help?
> Just some relevant stuff not explicitly discussed. The item referred to is something Abine puts in there designed to "anonymize" google searches which I hadn't caught, it had slipped through the updates, my bad. Which contains this path:
abine://auto-conf.js
When enabled, contains:
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function FindProxyForURL(url,host){if(url.match(/^http:\/\/(?:(?!chatenabled\.|mail\.|checkout\.|sites\.|docs\.|picasaweb\.|notebook\.|spreadsheets\.|wave\.|voice\.)[^.]+\.)?google\.com(?!\/accounts|\/a\/UniversalLogin|\/calendar|\/reader|\/health|\/notebook|\/wave|\/ig|\/a\/|\/apps|\/webmasters|\/contacts|\/voice)/i)) return 'PROXY proxy.googlesharing.net:80; DIRECT'; else return 'DIRECT'}
When disabled, contains:
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function FindProxyForURL(url,host){return 'DIRECT';}
> I tested everything and responded with the following <personal language is removed>
Some interesting findings.
I reset it and then tried it in the same session and it didn't work, same result. So I decided to restart the browser in case it was still in memory and had the same issue.
HOWEVER, I checked the config and saw that it was back, so I smacked myself on the forehead like the idiot that I was and forgot that Abine would put it back obviously on restart.
So I decided to actually disable it within the addon and then checked and the setting was gone. Then once confirmed that the damn thing stayed gone, by restarting again and checking, I went back to Google and due to its whitelisted status, it worked as expected.
HOWEVER (I know when will it end right

when you click on a link from the search results, it will get blocked and the result is something similar to those NS links that appear on some blocked sites (you know what I mean?) then you have to click on that link to get the actual page that would have been loaded directly going from Google to that page normally.
So not sure what's going on but the specific issue reported (specifically on Google) seems to be resolved, but I will have to keep an eye on other sites because I have seen it happen elsewhere too, just Google was the easiest for testing purposes. Will keep you posted.
Thank you again. <snip>
So this is out here in case it helps anyone, specially for following the issue and also to see if this was just a coincidence that Abine was involved because it was Google, or it happens elsewhere too, like it did in therube's case.