How To Enable "Touch Bar typing suggestions” on macOS Firefox Browser?

How do you have the Touch Bar show word and emoji suggestions when typing?

Expected

When typing text while using Firefox browser, the Touch Bar is expected to provide suggestions, i.e. words and emojis.

e.g. Chrome enables this feature

Chrome Touch Bar

Actual

The Touch Bar does not provide word or emoji suggestions when using Firefox browser.

Firefox Touch Bar

This seems potentially related to the Keyboard setting Touch Bar typing suggestions that is not showing for Firefox.

Touch Bar typing suggestions

Configuration

  • macOS: 11.3.1
  • Firefox: 88.0.1

Thank you!

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Hi,
I didn’t see a clear answer on the top result for Mozilla forums, so I thought I could fill in.
It seems that after 4 years since it was first requested on Mozilla’s bugtracker, it’s simply not implemented, rather than not working.
Record tracking all related activities to the touch bar: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603568
Request for touch bar text completion:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521894

Thanks to nextbern and harry-mozilla for having provided the answer on /r/firefox subreddit.

Thank you for following up with your research and the related links!

The silver lining is the new Macs are doing away with the touch bars and going back to the good ol’ clickedy clackidity buttons.