autocomplete should preference recent history
Categories
(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)
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(Reporter: contact, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0
Steps to reproduce:
Type into the address bar a prefix for addresses, or a keyword for titles, shared by multiple items in the history, one accessed many times recently, and one accessed few times in the more distant past.
Actual results:
Autocomplete shows the older candidate as the primary candidate.
Expected results:
Generally, users are most likely to repeat what they have done most recently and often. Repeated and recent use of the same destination should give that destination preference as the autocomplete candidate. Especially if a web site has not been reachable during recent attempts, it should not be given a higher status than ones that were most recently accessed successfully. Often resources move to a similar address, or retaining the same title. The defunct address should not repeatedly be given as the preferred candidate.
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Bookmarks & History' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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Could you please tell us a bit more details about how you loaded those pages? Is one of them bookmarked, the other not? Is one of the pages in a pinned tab? Is one of the pages redirecting?
Clearly the algorithm can be improved but I need any kind of information you can give me about how you accessed those pages.
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Comment 3•3 years ago
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Unfortunately without further information here, there isn't much we can do.
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Comment 4•3 years ago
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The intention of the original description was to express a situation in which neither page is bookmarked, loaded in a tab, or is found in any session or configuration tables other than browser history. This situation is further characterized by one page being accessed with greater frequency, and having a more recent time of last access, yet the other page being given priority in the autocomplete resolution scheme.
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