Remove the history.onlyTyped preference and behavior from the Address Bar
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P1)
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(Reporter: mak, Assigned: mak)
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browser.urlbar.history.onlyTyped is an hidden pref that complicates our filtering code and is bogus, because our typed implementation is a mess (Bug 1461844, Bug 1330343). To simplify porting the filtering behaviors to the Quantum Bar, for now we want to remove this not-so-useful behavior. We're also removing the typed restriction char in bug 1499743.
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Updated•3 years ago
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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Pushed by mak77@bonardo.net: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/27a7c02c5fdf Remove the history.onlyTyped preference and behavior from the Address Bar. r=adw
Comment 3•3 years ago
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https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/27a7c02c5fdf
Comment 4•2 years ago
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I would like to comment that this behavior is not "not-so-useful". It allows filtering extraneous visited links when typing in the address bar.
For example, if I type slashdot.org and, subsequently visit several pages on that site, then want to type/visit slashdot again, I don't really want to see/have all the sub-pages listed as options, I want to navigate to the main page. Similarly for news sites, like the NY Times, etc. Why would I want to see old news links in the drop-down?
Just my $0.02, but I found the behavior very useful for filtering out old URLs and reducing the noise in the drop-down list.
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Comment 5•2 years ago
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unvisited links will begin losing score in days, and soon disappear. since the behavior self-adapts, there's no point in the user doing manual strong filtering.
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