113019 - "Go to URL" in autocomplete

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Autocomplete, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

When I enter and paste(!) something into the urlbar, autocomplete opens and
offers "Search [default search engine] for {text in urlbar]". I propose to add
another entry (as first one) "Go to [text in urlbar]". This would give me the
functionality of the Go button (being able to visit a URL using the urlbar with
the mouse only, e.g. with copy&paste) without the wasted screen space of the Go
button.

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Should be highly useful and trivial to implement. -> mozilla1.0 nomination.
Feel free to remove it, if you disagree.

Comment 2

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

highly useful? urm

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

huh?

Comment 4

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

I don't see the value in this.

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

OK, let me try to explain it again:
1. You disable the Go button, because you want to have a larger URLbar.
2. You don't have your hands at the keyboard
3. You have a URL in non-Mozilla windows, e.g. in notepad
4. Using the mouse, you mark and copy the URL in the other app
5. Using the mouse, you paste the URL into the urlbar

And now?

The autocomplete pops up, offering you to search for the URL on your fav. search
engine - you can just click on it and the search starts. But, there is no way to
cause the URL to load using the mouse. I have to out my hand to the keyboard and
press Enter.

Why is that bad? Because a switch between mouse and keyboard is about the
largest performance-stopper in UIs.

If there were a "Go to <URL>" item in autocomplete, I could just click on that
option with the mouse and have the URL loaded without ever touching the keyboard
(and without wasting horizontal space on the main toolbar / urlbar).

Please mark this WONTIFX only, if this *should not* be fixed, not if *you* don't
want to fix it.

Comment 6

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

Ben, I understand why you want this, but I simply feel that this is an edge case
not worth cluttering the UI for.  As owner of the urlbar, I have the right to
say that I don't want this change to be made.  Feel free to patch Beonex if you
want it so badly.

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I disagree that this is an edge case. This "edge case" is what we have the Go
button for.

Comment 8

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Precisely. If you want mouse-only navigation to pasted URIs, turn on the Go
button. Verified wontfix.

Comment 9

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

But the Go button wastes space, while this solution doesn't.

Comment 10

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

But this solution is way too confusing.

Verifying an already verified wontfix bug...