Re: 'Giving users what they don't want is classic Mozilla'
On the occasions I use my mobile to browse, the baked-in list of suggestions really fucking annoys me.
There are two sites I visit regularly which start with "n" (I'm lazy, so never type the "www." unless the site is so badly designed that it won't work without it). Neither of them is netflix. I have never visited netflix on any computer, let alone my mobile. Guess which site is suggested as soon as I type "n", forcing me to type at least one more letter. For one of those two sites, the second letter is "e", so guess which one doesn't appear in the URL bar unless I type a third letter (it does, however, appear near the top in the suggestions list, but that requires moving my finger further to activate).
If it were just that one site, I might not be so annoyed. But it's just about every site, even the ones I use regularly and frequently.
If the rankings of baked-in suggestions changed as I visited other sites, I could live with that. But the ranking never changes. It doesn't matter how many times I visit the other "n" sites, netflix is the first suggestion. It doesn't matter how many times I visit a "w" site, up pops fucking walmart (which I've never been to on any computer and have no intention of ever visiting). That's what changes it from being a useful feature (start out by offering popular sites and learn from what the user actually visits) to a piece of fucking stupid incompetent shit implemented by people who should be banned from ever designing a user interface.