Closed Bug 687990 Opened 13 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Awesomebar useless for pages with no title (like text files)

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED INACTIVE

People

(Reporter: danweiss, Unassigned)

Details

Often, I want to visit plain text files which I have visited before.  But the AwesomeBar will only match the URL of the file, and since there is no page title, that's all it will match.

Instead, it should try to generate a page title from text within the text file, after stripping away initial whitespace and punctuation.  (for example, getting rid of lines of dashes ------ and blank lines)

Similarly, for HTML pages with no title, maybe it could generate a title from early text or text inside heading tags.
Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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