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

OkCompute64

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);

Liquid_Fire

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").

zamadatix

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

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

froh42

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.

akimbostrawman

and yet many on HN will keep insisting firefox does not have ads or sell user data despite literally defaulting to google for money which directly means selling user search data to them and showing ads. the actual "fix" is not changing config settings regularly broken/changed but with a proper fork actually delivering what firefox keeps promising such as librewolf and mullvad browser.

VCFundedGenYer

Reminder that Waterfox removes all of this nonsense. And if you want an even more security hardened fork, LibreWolf. Vanilla Firefox lost the plot a long time ago.

yencabulator

https://web.archive.org/web/20260915141712/https://www.heise... the whole relevant section is > In Germany, France, and Italy, Firefox 156 displays localized Wikipedia suggestions and occasional sponsored results in the address bar. The feature is part of Firefox Suggest and supplements typed entries with relevant suggestions. According to Mozilla, these suggestions can be disabled in the Firefox Suggest settings.