148720 - "Automatically complete text..." master doesn't disable sub-options

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 97344

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Patrick Lathem]

I have noticed this on Linux and Windows XP running Mozilla RC3.

Enable Smart Browsing/"Automatically complete text typed into Location bar"
Choose Advanced and enable all suboptions..
Disable Smart Browsing/"Automatically complete text..." 
Notice the behavior of the location bar. On my computer, all of "Automatically
complete text.." will still function while "Automatically complete text ..." is
disabled.
Also since the parent option is disabled, you can disable the sub-options. 
To fix this you have to re-enable parent option "Automatically complete
text...", choose Advanced and then disable each individual part, and finally
disable the parent option.

Comment 1

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

this got fixed some day.

Comment 2

[Patrick Lathem]

This still does not work for me on Mozilla 1.1 beta. (2002072208)

If I enable all of the child options under advanced for "Automatically complete
text typed into Location bar", and then disable the parent check box, all of the
child features are still enabled. The parent checkbox should disable all of the
child options... I'm having a hard time explaining this clearly, but hopefully
someone understands.

Comment 3

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

the second (dropdown the old entries) one disables the third (search engine) for
me, why should be anything more?

Comment 4

[Kenneth Herron]

I can't reproduce this. I'm using solaris nightly 2002120522 for solaris.

Patrick, as I understand it, you're not just talking about the preferences user
interface; you're saying that the individual autocomplete features are still
working, despite the fact the master autocomplete checkbox is off.

Could you test this with a current version of mozilla and see if you can still
produce it?

Comment 5

[Patrick Lathem]

I'm now using Mozilla 1.2b (the newest port for 4.7-stable). 
Mozilla/5.0(X11;U;FreeBSD i386;en-US;rv:1.2b)Gecko/20021114.

It seems to be closer to fixed, but still a small problem. If I enable all of
the options under advanced, and then disable the master checkbox "Automatically
complete text typed into Location bar", the "Show internet search engine" option
remains enabled. I still see the 'Search x for "what i typed" ' popup. All of
the other options are disabled correctly though, which was not true in 1.1 (if I
recall correctly). Hope that helps.

And yes you described what I was trying/failing to explain.

Comment 6

[Kenneth Herron]

I'm confirming this. Here are the steps to reproduce:

1) Open Preferences and select Navigator->Smart Browsing.
2) Select "Automatically complete text...". Click on the "Advanced" button.
3) Within the "Autocomplete Preferences" window, select "Show internet search
engine". Select "OK" to close the window.
4) Turn off "Automatically complete text...". Click "OK" to close preferences.
5) Select the URL bar, clear it, and type some text.

Actual behavior: The dropdown appears offering to perform an internet search on
the text I typed.

Expected behavior: No dropdown, based on the fact the "Automatically complete
text..." master control is off.

It's not my intention to increase the scope of this bug report, but I also two
other related bugs. First of all:

1) Within "Autocomplete preferences", set "Show list of matching results" to on.
Everything else can be off. Select "OK".
2) Within Preferences->Smart Browsing, set "Automatically complete text..." to
off. Select "OK".
3) Type some text into the URL bar.

Expected results: No dropdown under the URL bar.

Actual results: A line appears under the URL bar, as if mozilla were creating a
dropdown with nothing in it.

Second of all:

1) Open Preferences->Smart browsing. Select (if needed) "Automatically complete
text...", then deselect it again. Note that the "Advanced..." button grays out
when the checkbox is deselected. Click "OK" to close preferences.
2) Open Preferences->Smart browsing again.

Expected results: "Automatically complete..." checkbox should still be
deselected and "Advanced..." button should still be grayed out.

Actual results: "Automatically complete..." checkbox is deselected, but
"Advanced..." button is active and works.

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

From comment 5:

#0 is bug 97344, Disabling autocomplete should also disable search row


From comment 6:

#1 might be bug 158235, autocomplete appears even when search row is off and no
matches are available.  (If it's not 158235, please file a new bug instead of
reopening this one, and give the bug number of the new bug here.)

#2 is bug 179432, autocomplete prefs advanced button should stay disabled if
main pref is disabled

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97344 ***