118571 - auto complete dropdown stays up even when there's 1 exact match and 'Autocomplete best match as you type' is on.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[djk]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020104
BuildID:    2002010403

This is pretty much bug 100152, but for the URL bar...

"If you use the auto complete widget and type something in that has multiple
matches, you get the popup. If you then continue to type characters such that
there is only one exact match, we still show the popup.

The normal behavior should be to hide the popup when we go from many matches to
1 match."

OK, I also have 'Autocomplete best match as you type' turned on, which makes the
dropdown redundant.  I suppose if 'Autocomplete...as you type' were off, the
dropdown would still be needed to see that one match.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start typing in the URL bar: mozilla

Autocomplete drops down the list of the mozilla* pages I've vistited.
(mozilla.org, mozillazine.org, etc)

2. continue typing: .org

Autocomplete list continues to show, but the number of sites drops as what I
type gets more specific.

3. continue typing: /se

Autocomplete fills in "arch.html" at the end of the URL bar for me, which is the
only history match for what I've typed so far; the autocomplete dropdown,
however, remains with only one URL in it.

See attachment 60810 [details] for a screenshot.



Actual Results:  autocomplete dropdown remains

Expected Results:  autocomplete dropdown goes away (if Autocomplete is on.)

Comment 1

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or not. Probably is.

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

suggest WONTFIX
when you type in the location bar, Search Google for 'xxxx' appears in the
drop-down menu. so we will get the menu no matter what.

Comment 3

[djk]

> when you type in the location bar, Search Google for 'xxxx' appears in the
> drop-down menu. so we will get the menu no matter what.

As you can see from the screenshot, I have the 'Search Google' function disabled
and autocomplete within the URL bar on.  The dropdown is redundant, because it
provides no additional information compared to the URL bar itself.

Firebird does not have the 'Search Google' function in the dropdown, either.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

If you type "g", the URL bar will show "google.com/" but the relevant autocomplete match is "http://www.google.com/".  The dropdown needs to be there to show the protocol (might be https) and/or host prefix when those things weren't actually typed in the URLbar.

Comment 5

[Peter Kasting]

Comment #4 is probably less true after my recent patch to bug 202992, since it makes inline autocomplete not finish addresses with missing beginnings other than "http://".

Comment 6

[djk]

I'm closing this bug as invalid.

The awesomebar dropdown shows more information than the autocompleted URL shows: the protocol, page title, and favicon.

The idea that the dropdown is redundant when there is a single autocomplete match is no longer valid.