125007 - autocompletion logic is not quite optimal

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 96700

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

There doesn't seem to be a logic way of how the URL autocompletion works.

I have autocomplete best match on, and suppose I visited the www.mozilla.org
page and a bunch of subrelated pages.  When I now type www.mozi again in the URL
bar it autocompletes to www.mozilla.org.  So far so good.

But when I type www.google.com and have a bunch of sub-URLs for that domain it
constantly insists on presenting me with one of those suburls instead of with
the more logical [as the graphic and mozilla.org example would suggest]
www.google.com.

The weird thing though is that it does not seem to store the typed in, and
correct, URL of http://www.google.com/.

Most other URLs seem to work as advertised though.

Quite peculiar behaviour.

Comment 1

[Sean Harding]

This is a major annoyance to me. In my use, it seems that most of the time,
Mozilla autocompletes to a suburl instead of the top level. This makes the
autocomplete feature much less useful than it is in other browsers. In some
cases, it's actually a hindrance.

This is annoying enough and has been happening long enough that I suspect this
bug is a duplicate. Bug 96700 maybe? Or perhaps Bug 78270.

Comment 2

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96700 ***