1345133 - Pressing ":" on an autofilled domain should directly move to editing the port number

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764062#c17

For developers it's quite annoying to work with autofill when they need to input port numbers.
Since we have very nice devtools, it's a pity to ruin the experience with this.

The best fix may take a while to implement (see bug 764062), and it will still only be able to provide a single result (the most frecent one). Editing the port number may still be quite annoying.

For this reason I'm suggesting a quicker fix, that consists into changing the user input when he types ":" on an autofilled entry. Basically "l[ocalhost/]|" becomes "localhost:|" when ":" is pressed. Thus only "l:" is needed to complete to "localhost:". This will also be nice once the underlying bug is fixed to change a suggested port number.
This is probably feasible in urlbarbindings.xml and will require a dedicated mochitest-browser test.

I'm setting myself as mentor in case someone wants to try implementing this, it's not a good first bug though, it will require some tries and debugging.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

let's see how things evolve with new autofill first.