Firefox Suggest FAQ
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Table of Contents
- 1 What is Firefox Suggest?
- 2 What’s on by default?
- 3 Why would you enable the Improved Firefox Suggest Experience?
- 4 What data does Mozilla share with its partners if you allow or enable “Improve the Firefox Suggest Experience”?
- 5 Who Are Mozilla’s partners?
- 6 How do I manage my Firefox Suggest settings?
What is Firefox Suggest?
Firefox Suggest is a new feature that provides website suggestions as you type into the address bar. It acts as a trustworthy guide to the better web and finds relevant information and sites to help you accomplish your goals. Learn more about how to customize your Firefox Suggest settings.
What’s on by default?
Firefox already provides suggestions from your default search engine as you type into the address bar. Firefox also shows you address bar autocomplete suggestions based on local data stored on your own computer, such as websites from your browsing history, bookmarks and open tabs. Beginning in Firefox version 92, U.S. users will see this local data under a "Firefox Suggest" label in the address bar drop-down list.
Suggestions from the Web and Sponsored Suggestions are also on by default. These are helpful suggestions from Firefox related to your search and do not require new types of data. These suggestions will connect you with content from many sources, including Wikipedia, Pocket articles and product reviews. You may also see clearly labeled sponsored suggestions from Mozilla's trusted partners. Learn more about this.
Why would you enable the Improved Firefox Suggest Experience?
Firefox is creating a trustworthy guide to the better web, surfacing relevant information to users as they navigate the web. We're doing so by only collecting the data that we need to operate and update the functionality of Firefox Suggest based on our Lean Data and Data Privacy Principles.
Enabling Firefox Suggest helps enable Firefox, the independent browser, to improve the overall search experience and suggest relevant information for users. To enable these suggestions, click Allow suggestions when you receive our notification prompt or go to the Address Bar - Firefox Suggest section in preferences to choose the types of suggestions that will show in the address bar.
What data does Mozilla share with its partners if you allow or enable “Improve the Firefox Suggest Experience”?
Before Mozilla shares any data with its partners about which suggestions have been displayed or clicked, all personally identifying information is removed, and the data is sent through a Mozilla-owned proxy service rather than directly from your computer. Learn more about how Mozilla handles data.
Who Are Mozilla’s partners?
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.
How do I manage my Firefox Suggest settings?
Every suggestion type within Preferences can be disabled or enabled at any time — the types of suggestions you receive are completely up to you.
- Go to Preferences by typing about:preferences#privacy in the address bar.
- Scroll down to the section labeled Address bar—Firefox Suggest.
- To enable or disable any preference, click the toggle or checkbox.
- For additional clarity, the grey info box will summarize your preference choice.