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It seems like a useful privacy feature to me. I don't want Apple or Firefox to pass every site I visit every time I visit it to Google, Apple or any other compa
by undefinedzero 4y ago
It seems like a useful privacy feature to me. I don't want Apple or Firefox to pass every site I visit every time I visit it to Google, Apple or any other company under US law.
- iggldiggl 4y agoYes, although in principle this kind of list should only be necessary for fresh browsing profiles (plus people who don't keep a local browsing history). Once you've used the browser for a while, autocomplete should predominantly be powered by your local browsing history anyway. Firefox on Android e.g. used to (or still has – I'm not sure what the state is nowadays after the rewrite) have a similar (although somewhat smaller) list of popular domains which it would use for providing autocomplete results if it couldn't find anything in your history, but local history always had priority.
- andybak 4y agoI switched to Firefox about a year ago but I'm really missing the autocomplete from Chrome. I guess sharing my entire digital life with Google had some upside after all. Joking aside - Firefox makes some strange choices and the I wish mobile and desktop could (optionally) share more of my browsing history. Maybe they do but the autocomplete doesn't behave the same across devices.