So, when you start typing “win” in your address bar, you may see suggestions for “Windows 11” and “Window repair.” This is accomplished by sending keystrokes to your default search engine as you type in the search bar, as Mozilla’s support site explains.
It’s worth noting that, for many years, Firefox and other web browsers have had search suggestions in their address bar. However, as of Firefox 93’s release in October 2021, Firefox Suggest is only enabled in the USA-for now.
In other words, with Firefox 93’s default settings, Firefox will show you suggestions and ads-but it will source them from a local offline database in Firefox itself rather than sending your queries to Mozilla’s servers.
Firefox update#
Mozilla has since posted an update explaining that keystrokes (in other words, queries sent as you type) will not be sent to Mozilla with the default settings and that these “smarter suggestions” are instead an opt-in experience. However, it appears that Mozilla did not properly explain how this feature worked. Update, 10/12/21 11:49 am Eastern: As of Firefox 93’s release, Mozilla’s documentation stated that Firefox would be sending queries to Mozilla’s servers when Firefox Suggest’s contextual suggestions were enabled, as explained below.
Firefox how to#
Here’s exactly what Firefox is sharing and how to control it. To power Firefox Suggest, Firefox sends the keystrokes you type into your address bar, your location information, and more to Mozilla’s servers.
Firefox now sends more data than you might think to Mozilla.
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