133047 - URL-Complete should depend on laguage-settings

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

if you've set the preferred language to i.e. "de" an URL "test" should be
compleatet to www.test.de, not www.test.com

Comment 1

[John Levon]

WONTFIX. It's not possible to map languages to country codes,
and the www. .com pasting is a horrible UI wart anyway.

And no, there shouldn't be a pref for it either ...

Won't mark it until someone more official agrees :)

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

setting severity to RFE and confirming.  ccing Adam, since this is URI fixup...

Comment 3

[Adam Lock]

There are prefs for the prefix & suffix that URI fixup appends. The defaults are
these:

pref("browser.fixup.alternate.prefix", "www.");
pref("browser.fixup.alternate.suffix", ".com");

Localization could supply other values for these during creation of a profile or
in  a localization pref panel for example.

Comment 4

[Frank Tang]

reassign this to smontagu for future design. 
smontagu- this seems a good pet project for you.

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

If we already have a pref, what's the problem?

Comment 6

[Adam Lock]

I don't know if there should be a UI for just this, but I believe there are
enough locale specific settings that might warrant a localization prefs panel.

Comment 7

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

This is a browser feature to be triaged, not Platform:Intl bug.

Comment 8

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

This sounds like it's about autofill, not fixup... Or was there even autofill when this bug was filed? Modern autofill is based on frecency, so if you're visiting test.de more than test.com, this should just work. I'm not sure we want to base autofill decisions only on the preferred language, but maybe it could be a factor.