Bug 1653261 Comment 30 Edit History

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(In reply to megancutrofello from comment #29)
> Would you be willing to consider a preference to disable the requirement of the additional keyword prior to the omnibox api suggestions?

Not for now, that magic keyword exists to avoid malicious add-ons from taking control of the urlbar. While that may look like an advanced feature, we really don't want to take that risk considered how search engines the the homepage were abused in the past.

> What do you mean by this? For example I use `lolcssme` as a keyword for https://lol.gamepedia.com/Special:MyPage/common.css - this couldn't possibly autofill here.

yes, that's not the case we're aiming at, but if you just type "lol" and in the past you usually went to that page, it should be autofilled, and it's even shorter than your special keyword.
(In reply to megancutrofello from comment #29)
> Would you be willing to consider a preference to disable the requirement of the additional keyword prior to the omnibox api suggestions?

Not for now, that magic keyword exists to avoid malicious add-ons from taking control of the urlbar. While that may look like an advanced feature, we really don't want to take that risk considered how search engines and the homepage were abused in the past.

> What do you mean by this? For example I use `lolcssme` as a keyword for https://lol.gamepedia.com/Special:MyPage/common.css - this couldn't possibly autofill here.

yes, that's not the case we're aiming at, but if you just type "lol" and in the past you usually went to that page, it should be autofilled, and it's even shorter than your special keyword.

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