It's pretty crazy that browsers send referral in the first place. Getting rid of it, accidentally or not, is not a bug.
I use refcontrol[1] to spoof the referral. I'm always visiting from the front page of the website even though I'm almost never visiting from the front page.
It's also very good to avoid those annoying image hostings that serve you a .html page with ads when they detect you click a .png file from another web page or those that just show you a image asking you not to hotlink content.
Not that crazy. It has valid use detecting/preventing hotlinking/bandwidth leeching. Plus otherwise how would you find out what search terms were driving traffic?
I use refcontrol[1] to spoof the referral. I'm always visiting from the front page of the website even though I'm almost never visiting from the front page.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/