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Firefox disturbingly fills in forms automatically

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Everytime I enter facebook or any sub-site eg. by watching several videos/photos/etc. firefox keeps filling in the search form.

Everytime I enter facebook or any sub-site eg. by watching several videos/photos/etc. firefox keeps filling in the search form.
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Content in the Facebook search bar is automatically filled/completed by Facebook, not Firefox.

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Same happens at other websites too

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The same information applies to other sites as well. It's the website that's offering that search suggestion, not Firefox.

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Such suggestions are provided via JavaScript and a script sends why you have typed so far to the server as an XHR request. You can confirm this by checking the Network Monitor and filter by XHR.