Yes, you are right. A bit “mysterious”.
Same as @pebcak here, and I also run Firefox 93.0
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wtf
I just double-checked in one of my EOS VMs just to see, here is what I get:
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Could it be this:
We’ll begin offering contextual suggestions to a percentage of people in the U.S. as an opt-in experience.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-suggest/
?
I had the impression that the feature was to be incorporated into FF 93. I might be wrong though.
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Yes, @pebcak is right - you’re test-ground 
I wonder why… 
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aha “Firefox will need to send Mozilla new data, specifically, what you type into the search bar,” 
Strange. I don’t see that “contextual suggestions” option either.
Just installed fresj EOS in a VM.
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Apparently it is only being rolled out to certain regions initially.
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Actually I’m a bit concerned/disturbed by the fact that this is possible with firefox at all.
(unless the user configures that on purpose; which does not seems to be the case)
Just tried to VPN to a UK server and restarted the VM but still don’t see that option though.
Should be US
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Looks like it is being rolled out to a percentage of the users in US for now.
If you are not having it, estimate yourself a lucky one 
< they are standing right behind me, aren’t they?
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This is very strange.
I have multiple profiles, same machine, some have the spooky advertising suggestion option and others don’t.
The fact this is opt-out by default for seemingly random users is just wrong.
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The visibility of that setting can be turned on/off with this config option it seems:
browser.urlbar.quicksuggest.enabled
And then these are the settings itself:
browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest → keylogger on/off
browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored → enhanced keylogger on/off
Hmm, according to moz, it’s opt-in where they show you some dialog to enable that nonsense.
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I feel I’m being slightly naïve in asking this, but is there a reason sync is disabled in LibreWolf & FireDragon?
Yes.
You can guess the reason as well 
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I dunno. Do we not trust Mozilla with our bookmarks? Or is there some other reason, like they’re not stored securely? Mobile-oriented FF forks like IceRaven allow sync? Maybe privacy isn’t their focus?
Some Mozilla blurb on Firefox Sync from 2018:
Hence, unless something has changed recently, I kind of feel like I’m missing something. The loss of this functionality would be a big hit for me in the usefulness of a browser. Manually maintaining bookmarks across browsers is unmitigated bum.
Well, that’s the trade off - your choice 
LibreWolf is pretty hardened.
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Can anyone pls explain this new function to me? There’s already one that sends whatever you type in the adress bar to your chosen search engines to get suggestions. Which makes sense. But why send data to Mozilla? They are not running a search engine so where do these suggestions come from?
Here:
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