177360 - URL Bar history drop down displays entries in reverse chronological order

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Blake Ross]

The list is unbounded and new entries don't jump to the top.

Comment 1

[Caleb Gingles]

I get the same result (under Win2000). In addition, if you enter a site and use
Ctrl-Enter to complete the www and .com, only the site name is saved into the
history. For example, if I type in mysite<ctrl><enter>, then look in the
history, all I see is http://mysite/, which obviously doesn't work when clicked on.

Comment 2

[jon moses]

Also, it'd be nice if the root of a site ( if you've typed it in ) gets
displayed before the other urls of the same site.

IE:

Show: www.cnn.com/
before www.cnn.com/some/article/here

That'd be great.

Comment 3

[alanjstr]

Related bug 182366 

Comment 4

[Duncan Kimpton]

This is something that no browser I've yet found gets right:

Some heuristics should be applied to the list to determine what is shown - this
way the user might get more helpful results.

I.e. Frequency of link visiting - more often visited is more likely to be right
Time since last visit - more recent is likely to be right
Length of url - more general is generaly a safer bet (i.e. www.xyz.com not
www.xyz.com/test/a/b/b/g.html )

An adaptive system could weight these parameters until results were most often
what a user wanted to do.

Another thing that is really anoying is that when a site doesn't exist (i.e. I
spelt it wrong) the address bar jumps back to whatever was there before -
meaning I have to type it in again rather than just edit it.

Also url auto-extensions should (as has been said) be applied before adding the
url to the bar history.

Comment 5

[David Lynch]

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ml/autocomplete/ is the Mozilla project page for
an improved autocomplete feature.  (Mentioned to avoid unnecessary duplication
of effort.)

Comment 6

[Pierre Chanial]

David Lynch is right, we will use the mozilla learning machine.
-> won't fix

Comment 7

[Pierre Chanial]

As Sébastien noted, this bug is about the URL drop down, not the autocomplete
feature. Reopening.

Comment 8

[noririty]

*** Bug 197329 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Sébastien Delahaye]

Re-targeting towards Px0.6.

Comment 10

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** Bug 206661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[David P James]

Taking QA. Sorry for the bugspam

Comment 12

[Pham]

*** Bug 214118 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Jason Bassford]

Let's have a slightly more b.m.o. query friendly summary. <grin>  Feel free to
add other symptoms.

Comment 14

[Randy Beckwith]

The URL bar drop down history list does not put most recently used entries back
at the top of the list as Mozilla did. Frequently use URLs should be moved back
to the top of the drop down list.

Comment 15

[Rene�]

What could be nice is adding up the frequency of things under one domain name
and showing that domain name but then showing all things under that domain name
in length order ie www.xyz.com before www.xyz.com/hello.

Comment 16

[Robert Parenton]

If you set the following pref in user.js, the URL Bar History works better in
Firebird 0.7:

user_pref("browser.urlbar.autocomplete.learning.mode", 2);

Comment 17

[alanjstr]

That would be http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182366
So maybe we just need to set this in all.js.  

Comment 18

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

-> me. 

Comment 19

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

-> 0.9

Comment 20

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

moved to 0.9 by ben

Comment 21

[Wayne Woods]

*** Bug 234266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Something else that's always annoyed me in IE and Moz: if I start to type in a
URL I want to go to, and it happens to be in history, so I use autocomplete to
finish typing it in, this means the browser doesn't add it to the URL bar as a
typed in URL. So later when I try to go back to "that site I know I typed in
manually", it's not there, simply because I used autocomplete for the last 3
letters.

Comment 23

[Blake Ross]

-> me

Comment 24

[Blake Ross]

Attachment: mork patch

This patch implements the ability to iterate backwards over rows in Mork.

Comment 25

[David :Bienvenu]

Comment on attachment 141858 [details] [diff] [review]
mork patch

looks ok.

Comment 26

[Blake Ross]

Fixed; I've split off the unbounded issue into bug 235091.

Comment 27

[u58943]

patch seems to work good.  I do have one maor problem with it though.

If you click one of the ttems in the URL history dropdown, it doesnt put that
item back to the top of the list, which it should as this is what you would
expect it do to since you are basically typing the url in again, except using
the url bar as a shortcut way of doing it.

It does the same thing if you start typing one of the url's thats in the
dropdown, then it gives you a list of possibilities.  If you select one of
these, it doesnt put this item back to the top of the list either.

maybe this needs a new bug but I think its so closely related to this one, and
blake could probably sort it pretty easy :P

Comment 28

[Pham]

*** Bug 236413 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***