126728 - auto completion with redirects

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 112208

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Brandon Long]

as of 0.9.8, the auto completion in the URL location field no longer completes
to top level paths which redirect.

Ie, top level pages like www.expedia.com which redirect to a different page will
be stored in the auto-completion as the different page.  This makes it no
different than any of the other pages on that site, and so the page will be
listed somewhere randomly in the drop down of possible completions, which breaks
the auto-completion.

Comment 1

[Jérôme Schell]

I confirm that this is annoying.
The top level url is not proposed in the completion list so we have to delete
all the last part of the url.

You can try this here:

http://linuxfr.org

You will be redirect to a url like:
http://linuxfr.org/index,0,-1,0,1.php3

And mozilla doesn't store "http://linuxfr.org" but
"http://linuxfr.org/index,0,-1,0,1.php3" and all the other variant in the site.

So to find the right one in the list...

Comment 2

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

confirmed (saw that often enough)

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112208 ***