1159547 - Using arrow keys while editing URL bar changes URL bar contents

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

STR:
* enable unified autocomplete and ensure "google.com" is in your history.
* enter "goo" into the URL bar - dropdown offers "visit http://google.com/" and URLBar offers "google.com/" as a completion, as expected.
* Press "END" - caret moves to the end of the URL Bar after the slash (also as expected)
* Press BS - trailing slash is selected in URLBar (not sure if this is expected, but OK)
* Press BS again - trailing slash is removed from URLBar (as expected) - now showing "google.com"
* Press LeftArrow (or HOME)

Expected:
* URLBar contents stay the same, caret moves to the left.
Actual:
* URLBar has trailing slash re-appended.

IMO, moving the caret with the arrow keys should not change the contents of the URLBar.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to Mark Hammond [:markh] from comment #0)
> * Press BS - trailing slash is selected in URLBar (not sure if this is
> expected, but OK)

this is bug 719888

> * Press BS again - trailing slash is removed from URLBar (as expected) - now
> showing "google.com"
> * Press LeftArrow (or HOME)

> Expected:
> * URLBar contents stay the same, caret moves to the left.
> Actual:
> * URLBar has trailing slash re-appended.

This is because on key navigation we do completion, it's something in toolkit autocomplete. I agree the behavior for left looks bogus. This was probably done for in-the-middle completion...

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This is not directly related to or blocking unified complete, it would also happen with the old autocomplete search. As I said it's an annoyance in toolkit autocomplete that doesn't play well with the awesomebar usage.

Comment 3

[Michal Čaplygin [:myf]]

NB: `protocol://domain.tld` without trailing slash is not a valid URL per spec: there must be the path part present, and the `/` means "root path". Browsers tend to hide this slash when displaying the root path presumably for aesthetic reasons, but technically they never request such invalid URL from remote server.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

WFM in Nightly with Quantum Bar enabled.