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Yes, 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 yo
by iggldiggl 5y ago
Yes, 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 5y 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.