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Undo whatever changes in the address bar autocomplete system
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13-01-2026 09:22 PM
It is recommending wildly inaccurate autocompletes, pushing sites I have barely ever used or haven't been to in months ahead of sites that start with the same letter that I go to daily. I shouldn't have to manually add a keyworded bookmark or delete a rarely visited site from my history entirely to make the autocomplete go back to the site I visit multiple times a day.
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14-01-2026 03:52 PM
Likewise. Typing 'to' used to autocomplete to a site I visit on a daily basis. It did so reliably enough that my muscle memory automatically types 'to<Enter>' to get to the site. As of maybe a week ago it started suggesting tomshardware.com, a site I rarely visit. I don't see any method of removing the suggestion. The site I want is still in the suggestion list, it's just been demoted. Is Mozilla getting paid to push certain sites?
Firefox Dev Edition 148.0b2.
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16-01-2026 06:52 AM
This is hitting me as well.
I type test and press return to test my connection.
This is autocompleted to https://test.aerialcornwall.com/ - a broken website I have never ever heard of or visited.
This only happens with Google as my search engine so firefox may be negotiating autocomplete results with the search engine. Funnily I moved from Chrome due to this issue (search honey get honeybooboo).
I have search suggestions on, but trending search suggestions off.
To test this, I just disabled search suggestions, and found it was still happening.
I now see another section called "Firefox suggest" underneath this, with:
"Suggestions from Firefox and our partners in your address bar."
Having this as an independent section rather than a nested section or directly under search suggestions is odd. There are a lot of settings under here e.g. "suggestions from sponsors".
The only way I could stop my test->https://test.aerialcornwall.com/ BS was to disable suggestions from Browsing history. Well, it was only in there because firefox suggested it to me! So I can't actually tell which of the 12 Suggestion pathways caused it to arrive and force its way into my daily life.
I also find if I delete the auto-completed search suggestion and go to another tab or window, when I select the address bar again the autocomplete restores. To me this is unexpected behaviour - I have not entered a new bit of text and the address bar I was editing has now re-entered the part I just deleted a second ago while I went and checked something. Really annoying.
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16-01-2026 04:06 PM
I also found that disabling suggestions from browsing history stopped the site from appearing. Of course, the site I wanted also didn't show up (don't usually use bookmarks)
I've at least temporarily resolved the issue by going into Manage History, searching for tomshardware.com, right clicking and choosing Forget this site... Now the site I actually visit regularly is the top result again.
As a test, I tried following a link to tomshardware.com from a Reddit post. Thankfully, this did not immediately put tomshardware.com back at the top of my suggestions list. In my case, willing to say resolved, but I'll follow up if it reoccurs.
