1091958 - url bar autocomplete list ignores protocol in input

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[illumilor.e]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 2014092000

Steps to reproduce:

When typing things such as "http://mozilla" in the url bar, in the dropdown menu, it will include results such as "https:/mozilla" or "http://addons.mozilla" even though those do not match what was typed in the url bar.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

yes, this is by design. there's no plan to change that for now cause it allows us to give more results to most users.
We could eventually evaluate a token filter to not do the ignore, but it would not benefit many users since those tokens are completely undiscoverable atm.

sorry, it's a wontfix for now, if we ever figure a way to make tokens discoverable, we could re-evaluate.