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Add ability to disable individual autocomplete providers #5745
Description
Fenix does have option to disable autocomplete, but it doesn't work for "default URL list", which still autocomplete random URLs, not sure if this is bug or simply missing feature, correct me if wrong.
Little annoyance.
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Reacted by J0WI, omaralsharif, Christian, Osyotr, CharmCityCrab, Zefang Tang, Jan, s-ankur, crisalis2, Vitalii and 12 more
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cadeyrn commentedon Oct 3, 2019
It's a missing feature, not a bug. The old Firefox aka Fennec also doesn't have an option to disable this feature.
I vote for adding such an option because how to disable this feature is a question that keeps coming up in Firefox support. It was already the case for Fennec and there were already requests for Fenix, too.
ealitten commentedon Nov 1, 2019
The ability to turn this off does appear in Firefox Focus, which I thought fenix was at least partially based on: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/autocomplete-settings-firefox-focus-address-bar
I do hope this feature is added, since I find it quite annoying for my urls to autocomplete to sites I have never and will never visit (the list seems very US-focused which means it's almost never of interest to me)
cadeyrn commentedon Nov 1, 2019
Fenix is not based on Firefox Focus. Both browsers use Android Components and GeckoView but are completely independently.
ealitten commentedon Nov 1, 2019
Ah OK, I stand corrected - the common use of Android Components and GeckoView must be where I got that idea from
omaralsharif commentedon Mar 15, 2020
I really think this issue should be addressed, as it may lead to a first impression that causes the user to question the browser's privacy claim.
Having the browser autocomplete to 'a list of popular sites' implies that the browser is collecting browsing data from somewhere. If the autocomplete is accurate, it may even imply that it has data on the user in advance.
This may conflict with one of browser's main claims of "privacy"
christianfl commentedon Apr 24, 2020
This flag in Fennec disables all search autocompletion, not only the default (sponsored) ones. I couldn't even find those URLs in the source code with grep, where are they stored?
cadeyrn commentedon Apr 24, 2020
These are no sponsored URLs but the most popular websites according to one of the Alexa top lists.
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/tree/master/components/browser/domains/src/main/assets/domains
omaralsharif commentedon Jun 6, 2020
The flags in about:config are either bugged or completely different at this point in time, as the current urlbar flags have no effect.
I'd love bring given the option to only autocomplete from history or bookmarks (rather than the Alexa top site list), but I'd definitely be satisfied with disabling autocomplete entirely
cadeyrn commentedon Jun 6, 2020
There was never a about:config option for that, neither in Fennec nor in Fenix.
crisalis2 commentedon Jun 16, 2020
Wrong. If you set browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled to false in Fennec, the Alexa top sites thing gets removed: for example, if you write "a" in the urlbar, no "amazon.com" suggestion comes up.
Now, in Fenix, setting browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled to false makes no difference. The "amazon.com" suggestion (which not only is unremovable spam, but also not even the relevant Amazon URL for my country) and all the other ones are still there.
This single problem makes Fenix worse than Fennec for me, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
There are options in about:config, like browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled, that simply don't work in Fenix. @omaralsharif is correct. Another example is browser.urlbar.trimURL: in Fennec, if you set it to false, it makes the urlbar show the "http(s)://" part. In Fenix, the "http(s)://" part doesn't come back no matter what.
Please, pay some attention to this issue. There are working features in Fennec that don't work in Fenix. Having options is good. And we are talking about options that were already there at that.
Crandel commentedon Jun 28, 2020
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boek commentedon Sep 11, 2020
Hey all, thank you for this feedback!
Let me see what we can do about allowing more fine tuning of the controls here!
[-]Option to disable default / custom URL list autocomplete[/-][+]Add ability to disable separate autocomplete providers[/+][-]Add ability to disable separate autocomplete providers[/-][+]Add ability to disable individual autocomplete providers[/+]liuche commentedon Sep 12, 2020
@sv-ohorvath to clarify, the feature you verified is in fact "turn off all autocomplete" - thank you for verifying! That fix is working as intended.
We have then re-purposed (and re-named this bug) to handle more specific autocomplete controls (which may be history, top sites, bookmarks, etc) with UX feedback.
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cpeterso commentedon Dec 27, 2022
Moved to bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1807749
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