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Firefox Suggest is a feature that provides website suggestions as you type into the address bar. This article describes what types of suggestions can be displayed and how to customize your Firefox Suggest settings.
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What settings are on by default?
The following Firefox Suggest settings are turned on by default:
- Browsing history – Page titles and web addresses from your history, using local data stored on your own computer
- Bookmarks – Page titles, web addresses and tags from your bookmarks
- Open tabs – Pages you currently have open in other tabs
- Search engines – Relevant search terms or solution buttons related to the task or answer you may be looking for
- Suggestions from Firefox – Contextual suggestions from the web related to your search
- Suggestions from sponsors – Occasional sponsored suggestions related to your search
You can turn these settings on or off at any time. To learn more about Firefox Suggest and your data, see this Mozilla blog post.
What setting is opt-in?
The following Firefox Suggest setting is turned off by default and the ability to opt-in is only available for a select group of users within the US:
- Improve the Firefox Suggest experience – A new search experience being rolled out that allows Mozilla to process your search query data to develop the Firefox Suggest feature. This setting is turned off by default.
If you've been selected for this experience, the setting will only be turned on if you explicitly select Allow via an opt-in modal notification prompt or by opening the Firefox settings and selecting Improve the Firefox Suggest Experience. The following section describes how to determine if you're opted into this experience and how to customize your settings. To learn more about the new data being processed, see this Mozilla blog post.
How do I determine what Firefox Suggest experience I'm in?
To view what Firefox Suggest experience is enabled:
- In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and then select or , depending on your macOS version.Click the menu button
and select .
- Select in the left panel.
- Scroll down to the section labeled Address bar — Firefox Suggest.
- If you don't see the Improve the Firefox Suggest experience setting, you're in the old experience.
- If you see the Improve the Firefox Suggest experience setting, you're opted into the new experience. By default, this setting is turned off. The toggle next to the setting turns the feature on or off. For additional clarity, the gray information box will summarize your Firefox Suggest preference choices.
If the gray information box shows the text Based on your selection, you’ll receive suggestions from the web, including sponsored sites. We will process your search query data to develop the Firefox Suggest feature., you've enabled our newest search experience.
If the gray information box shows the text Based on your selection, you’ll receive suggestions from the web, including sponsored sites. We won’t process your search query data., you've disabled our newest search experience.
How do I customize my settings?
To customize your settings for the types of suggestions displayed in the address bar results:
- In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and then select or , depending on your macOS version.Click the menu button and select .
- Select in the left panel.
- Scroll down to the section labeled Address bar — Firefox Suggest.
Click the checkbox or toggle switch next to the following settings, to enable or disable. See traditional address bar suggestions for the old experience settings.
- Browsing history
- Bookmarks
- Open tabs
- Shortcuts
- Search engines
- Suggestions from the web
- Suggestions from sponsors
If you're opted into the new experience, switch the toggle next to Improve the Firefox Suggest experience on or off. The gray information box will summarize your new Firefox Suggest preference choices.
How can I manage my address bar suggestions?
For options to manage your address bar suggestions, click the three-dot menu button next to a suggestion in the address bar.
The following options are available:
Firefox Suggest (Sponsored and Non-Sponsored)
This includes contextual suggestions from Firefox and occasional sponsored suggestions related to your search.
- Remove from history: removes the suggestion from your history.
- Dismiss this suggestion: removes the suggestion from the list of options and adds it to your blocklist.
- Learn More: provides more information.
Search engine historical suggestions
- Remove from history: removes the suggestion from your history.
- Learn More: provides more information.
Autofill (Domain)
- Remove from history: removes the domain suggestion from your history.
- Learn More: provides more information.
Autofill (Full URLs)
- Remove from autofill history: The suggestion will be removed from your history, and it will not appear as an automatic suggestion the next time you enter the same query.
- Learn More: provides more information.
Dismissed suggestions
When you dismiss a suggestion from the results list, it is placed on blocklist and is no longer included in future search results.
To restore all dismissed suggestions:
- In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and then select or , depending on your macOS version.Click the menu button and select .
- Select in the left panel.
- Go to the section labeled Address bar — Firefox Suggest.
- Under Dismissed suggestions, click the button next to Restore dismissed suggestions from sponsors and the web.
Who are Mozilla’s partners and sponsors?
We partner with organizations to serve up some of these suggestion types. Privacy is fundamental to Mozilla's mission, and we only work with partners that meet our privacy standards for Firefox. For sponsored results, our preferred partner is adMarketplace. We also provide results from Wikipedia. Results from Wikipedia are not sponsored.
Frequently asked questions
If you have more questions about Firefox Suggest, visit the Firefox Suggest FAQ.
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