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Search bar keeps suggesting malicious website

The search bar suggestions keeps suggesting me to go to Reddit.com with triple ‘d’. This redirects me to all kinds of malicious websites. It happens when I make a typo an… (read more)

The search bar suggestions keeps suggesting me to go to Reddit.com with triple ‘d’. This redirects me to all kinds of malicious websites. It happens when I make a typo and put “reddd+enter” instead of “redd+enter”.

I would like to block this website from loading or from being suggested in my search bar.

This is a security risk for popular websites that people rely on your autocomplete to access.

Thanks for your help.

Asked by Julio Vázquez Martínez-Lozano 19 hours ago

Complaint about new "Suggested Content" desktop notification

Firefox's Desktop application just gave me a desktop notification for"BootstrapBrain" on what the best web template for financial applications is. I've attached a screens… (read more)

Firefox's Desktop application just gave me a desktop notification for"BootstrapBrain" on what the best web template for financial applications is. I've attached a screenshot. That is a site I've used in the past; I guess Mozilla is using my web history to suggest content :/

I don't like the usual "suggested content" i.e. when you open a new tab you see headlines and the weather, but this feels really different. i have never seen suggested content in this format before.

I really don't appreciate what appears to be an advertisement that was enabled by default. I'll comb through Firefox's settings now to turn this off. Just wanted to loudly voice my complaint first.

Asked by PH 1 week ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 1 week ago

Disable A.I.

I’ve been unable to find a simple way to disable A.I. suggestions in searches. I find this force feeding of A.I. suggestions ridiculous Thus, after ver 20 years I delete… (read more)

I’ve been unable to find a simple way to disable A.I. suggestions in searches. I find this force feeding of A.I. suggestions ridiculous Thus, after ver 20 years I deleted Firefox from all my computer and phone.

Asked by Odet Gomme 5 days ago

How to prioritize my bookmark over the website's homepage in address bar suggestions

When I type "moo" in the address bar, the first suggestion (which is auto-completed and loads when I press Enter) is the website's base URL "https://moodle.uni-siegen.de/… (read more)

When I type "moo" in the address bar, the first suggestion (which is auto-completed and loads when I press Enter) is the website's base URL "https://moodle.uni-siegen.de/" instead of the webpage that I have bookmarked "https://moodle.uni-siegen.de/my/courses.php".

This is really annoying because it ends up costing me too many extra clicks to get to the webpage I actually need, especially since this is a website that I have to use often.

How can I prioritize the bookmarked option over the base URL?

I have already tried switching search and suggestion options in the settings, removing the homepage with the base URL from the history, and tweaking the frecency settings in about:config, but nothing worked.

Asked by Dragon Ouali 1 week ago

the word 'tab' showing when i type a search

When I type a search query in my firefox browser, the word 'tab' pops up in bold and shaded in grey. What is the point of that and how do I remove it? It doesn't happen w… (read more)

When I type a search query in my firefox browser, the word 'tab' pops up in bold and shaded in grey. What is the point of that and how do I remove it? It doesn't happen when I use any other browser so I assume its a Firefox component

Asked by andrewdemasson 2 months ago

Search Bar acting strangely

On latest nightly, starting about 24 hours ago, when I type things into the search bar I randomly get taken to a piece of my browser history instead of searching for the … (read more)

On latest nightly, starting about 24 hours ago, when I type things into the search bar I randomly get taken to a piece of my browser history instead of searching for the term in question.

If I hit back and then enter it repeats the behavior. If I hit back and prepend a ? then it relays the entire line with the ? included to my search engine.

I think there is an issue with the auto complete because it is not indicating that it is actually completing but that seems to be what is happening.

Maybe this is also related to the cursor lag I have seen lately in the search bar. You can be typing and it will display letter out of order or seemingly so until it catches up. Basically the cursor doesn't move in the search bar like it used to. That's been going on for over a month.

Asked by metiscus 6 days ago

Last reply by Paul 5 days ago

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cannot disable EVIL preference

I have ZERO interest in google features recently FORCED on my by an "upgrade" show trending search suggestions this is both checked and non-modifiable Why? I do not w… (read more)

I have ZERO interest in google features recently FORCED on my by an "upgrade"

show trending search suggestions

this is both checked and non-modifiable

Why?

I do not want this. How do I disable this evil setting?

Asked by pho kuh googL 9 months ago

Last reply by TyDraniu 9 months ago

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Auto fill in the search bar

Why is it when I want to go to a different website, such as youtube.com or google.com, the bar will autofill because I've been to those websites multiple times. But after… (read more)

Why is it when I want to go to a different website, such as youtube.com or google.com, the bar will autofill because I've been to those websites multiple times. But after going to spotify.com numerous times, the autofill never shows up and I have to manually type in the whole "spotify.com" because the web search bar thinks I've never been there before. Why is that and can I fix it?

Asked by Karel Kouda 9 months ago

Last reply by TyDraniu 9 months ago

Amazon.com instead of co.uk

Hi I am not sure which topic this falls under but for some reason when click on Amazon in my previous sites in the search bar it says its amazon.co.uk but its actually am… (read more)

Hi I am not sure which topic this falls under but for some reason when click on Amazon in my previous sites in the search bar it says its amazon.co.uk but its actually amazon.com as shown in my picture. Is there a way to sort this as I have to remember not to click on it and type it.

Asked by Matthew Hooker 2 months ago

Need help removing a Firefox suggest on android

This is a little embarassing to admit, but my firefox suggest keeps suggesting me spankbang.com when i type sp, I noticed this when i was trying to search spanish on the … (read more)

This is a little embarassing to admit, but my firefox suggest keeps suggesting me spankbang.com when i type sp, I noticed this when i was trying to search spanish on the search bar.

When I follow the suggestion to it's full autocomplete it leads to a video I watched a long time ago but have since cleared from my history. I tried long pressing spankbang to remove it from suggest but I don't really know how to remove this. I did include a screenshot, but the attached troubleshoot data is from my computer not my phone. I'm not sure how to include that.

Please help me, I have a date and I don't want to accidentally have that autocomplete.

Sincerely, Firefox Android User.

Asked by eesan.lee 2 months ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 2 months ago

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Remove the text suggestion on the webpage

Hello everyone, My question is simple, how i can remove the possibility to have the text suggestion when i need to type something that have something in memory (like th… (read more)

Hello everyone,

My question is simple, how i can remove the possibility to have the text suggestion when i need to type something that have something in memory (like the screenshot)

Thank for your help

Asked by Luc 10 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 10 months ago

Search

With the latest update I get search suggestions in the search bar. I want to use my bookmarks. How can I turn off this feature? In the example, I typed dict and got di… (read more)

With the latest update I get search suggestions in the search bar. I want to use my bookmarks. How can I turn off this feature?

In the example, I typed dict and got dictionary.reference.com, while the bookmark I wanted was just ductionary.com. Thank you.

Asked by crl4242 4 months ago

Last reply by Ed 4 months ago