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Firefox 156 shows ads in the address bar (dubbed "Firefox Suggest")

41 points dark-star 1 hour ago 11 comments

OkCompute64 1 hour ago | parent

I set the following in my user.js to disable this kind of thing. It keeps my default search engine suggestions but disables all the junk. Strictly speaking I think the last line is technically redundant as quicksuggest.all=false should disable .sponsored as well but no harm in being explicit about it.

  user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.engines", false);
  user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.openpage", false);
  user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.topsites", false);
  user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quickactions", false);
  user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.recentsearches", false);
  user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.all", false);
  user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored", false);

sigmonsays 40 minutes ago | parent

where do you put this user_pref content?

nxtbl 39 minutes ago | parent

Edit within the browser via about:config or add them in the user.js file, easier to make it permanent and portable

grimgrin 22 minutes ago | parent

as the other comment said, you can put in user.js but more specifically, that goes in the root of wherever your profile is. for me, that is:

    /home/<user>/.mozilla/firefox/<name>/user.js
this file doesn't exist by default, there's caveats with how it is overwritten, etc. i don't know much

Liquid_Fire 1 hour ago | parent

I believe this has been around for a while; it's probably just been rolled out to more regions (Germany, France, and Italy, according to the article).

It's annoying, but thankfully it's a single checkbox in the settings to disable it (uncheck "Suggestions from sponsors").

pluc 45 minutes ago | parent

> Note: Certain parts of Firefox Suggest are currently available only in some regions.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-suggest

zamadatix 55 minutes ago | parent

The title has been editorialized & elides the change is regional rollout rather than introduction of the functionality itself (been discussed for years at this point).

It's probably easier to search for lists of things to disable in Firefox than go one per post anyways. One of the nice things about Firefox (other than the relative amount of these things) is the knobs to remove them usually exist somewhere for you to pull.

monegator 54 minutes ago | parent

these fucking cookie consent in german. These bastards (cookie company) do it on purpose

vlod 24 minutes ago | parent

I don't see it. May I be the first to tempt you of the delights of firefox and ublock-origin. :)

froh42 28 minutes ago | parent

If I hadn't rage-sponsored servo over the shitty Mozilla handling of money, I'd rage-sponsor servo now.

I use Firefox because I believe in an alternative to Chrome, but they make it fucking hard to love Firefox.