1500138 - Remove urlbar.matchBehavior and merge some of the behaviors

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

browser.urlbar.matchBehavior is a pref that allows, by setting obscure values, to change the matching mode of the urlbar. possible values are:
  MATCH_ANYWHERE,
  MATCH_BOUNDARY_ANYWHERE,
  MATCH_BOUNDARY,
  MATCH_BEGINNING,
  MATCH_BEGINNING_CASE_SENSITIVE,
exposed by mozIPlacesAutoComplete.

A few of these are not used, others can be merged.

All of this complicates things, and the outcome is not much clear, we don't experiment with these from a long long time, and the default behavior always satisfied users needs.

All that we need is:
1. Search on boundary and then, if not enough results were found) everywhere
2. search unmodified strings (no trimming)

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

Attachment: Bug 1500138 - Remove browser.urlbar.matchBehavior and some unused Address Bar behaviors. r=adw!

Remove browser.urlbar.matchBehavior pref. Remove code for BEGINNING behaviors, and stop referencing MATCH_BOUNDARY_ANYWHERE from our code.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/095cb0042729
Remove browser.urlbar.matchBehavior and some unused Address Bar behaviors. r=adw

Comment 3

[Noemi Erli[:noemi_erli]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/095cb0042729