Firefox mobile address autocompletion

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lvm
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Firefox mobile address autocompletion

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When I start typing something in the address bar Firefox autocompletion kicks in and starts suggesting sites which are not present in my browsing history, apparently it goes online for it. How can I disable this annoyance and make autocompletion work only against my actual browsing history? Firefox 50.1.0 for android.
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DanRaisch
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Re: Firefox mobile address autocompletion

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Moving to Mobile forum.
JanH
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Re: Firefox mobile address autocompletion

Post by JanH »

It's not going online - Firefox ships with an inbuilt list of popular domains which is used to power the autocompletion in the absence of sufficient local history.
lvm
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Re: Firefox mobile address autocompletion

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Anyway, is it possible to disable it?
nBen50
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Re: Firefox mobile address autocompletion

Post by nBen50 »

In about:config change 'browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled' to false.

Maybe that will do it.
lvm
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Re: Firefox mobile address autocompletion

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It disables autocompletion completely - history and the list. As I said, I want autocompletion but I want it to work only for history, not the list.
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Re: Firefox mobile address autocompletion

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lvm wrote:It disables autocompletion completely - history and the list. As I said, I want autocompletion but I want it to work only for history, not the list.
This would be nice.
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