136228 - Bookmark keyword not substituted in URL dropdown list - only matches against "redirect" / expansion, not what was typed.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 392143

(Core Graveyard :: History: Global, defect)

Description

[Jason Bassford]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020408
BuildID:    2002040803

When using a bookmark keyword, the actual (expanded) URL is not entered in the
URL dropdown list.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a bookmark keyword - I'm using a Google search with "g".
2. Go to that bookmark by entering it into the URL bar - "g something"
3. Click on the URL bar down arrow.
4. Notice that the top entry there is "g something" rather than
"http://www.google.com/search?=something&hl=en&meta=".

Actual Results:  The literal keystrokes that you entered in the URL bar ("g
something") appear in the URL dropdown list.

Expected Results:  When storing the data in the dropdown list, it should have
stored the "expanded" URL that the keyword points to - "http://www.google...".

I'm not actually sure if this is a bug or just an enhancement request.  But I
think that the order in which Mozilla processes the events should be 1) Expand
bookmark keyword to actual URL, 2) Store URL in dropdown history list.  Rather
than the reverse.

Comment 1

[Jason Bassford]

Ironically, this is the *opposite* problem of bug 216441 (although that one
isn't about keywords the principle is the same).  In both cases, both what you
type AND the "redirect" should be stored.

Comment 2

[Jason Bassford]

-> History: Global as with bug 216441.  I almost put it in Session, since it
needs to get in their first, but decided that the final goal of this is to get
it into Global so changed my mind.

Also, I'm not able to type "g" and have it bring up the Google site in
autocomplete (even though "g something" does appear in the dropdown list, it's
not being associated with autocomplete).  It should be bringing up at least one
of "g something" or "google.com..." when I type "g".