Add UrlbarInput.autofill(), call it from the controller, and disable autofill when the new search string is a prefix of the old string
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P1)
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(Reporter: adw, Assigned: adw)
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Add UrlbarInput.autofill(), call it from the controller, and disable autofill when the new search string is a prefix of the old string.
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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There are two parts to this:
When the controller receives the first result and the context has an autofill value, then call a new input.autofill() method, which does the actual autofill in the input.
We shouldn't autofill when the user back spaces. Actually back spacing is just one example of deleting text at the end of the input; the user could select text and press delete, or use the delete-previous-word key shortcut, etc. So it's not correct to simply check whether the last keypress was a backspace and skip autofill then. We should copy the logic of the legacy autocomplete controller and check whether the new search string is a prefix of the old string. If so, then don't autofill. So I added that logic to UrlbarInput. I could have added similar logic to the controller or the context instead, but it makes the most sense being in the input since it's the input where the user is interacting with the text value.
AFAICT the lastKey option passed around in the input and other places was added in anticipation of autofill, e.g., from AddressBar.rst:
lastKey; // {string} The last key pressed by the user. This can affect the
// behavior, for example by not autofilling again when the user
// hit backspace.
So I think we can remove it? I'll file another bug for that.
Pushed by dwillcoxon@mozilla.com: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/d6c453110b21 Add UrlbarInput.autofill(), call it from the controller, and disable autofill when the new search string is a prefix of the old string. r=mak
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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I filed bug 1522280 for adding tests. I marked it blocking the main autofill bug instead of this one.
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Comment 4•5 years ago
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