177612 - setting browser.urlbar.autoFill does not make the URL Bar auto-fill

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[eric lindvall]

Running 20021030, when i set "browser.urlbar.autoFill", the URL Bar does not
auto-fill (fill in the text for the closest match to what i'm typing)

Comment 1

[André Dahlqvist]

Can you give more clear steps to reproduce? After setting this pref, if I enter
the beginning of an address in the URLbar that I have visited before I get a
drop-down list of matches. If I then hit TAB it fills in the first item in that
list.

Did you create a new profile and install Phoenix to a clean directory?

Comment 2

[eric lindvall]

the behaviour in mozilla is to fill in the rest of the word.
autoFill maps to the "Autocomplete best match as your type"

for instance.. i've been to "http://slashdot.org/" before, and it's in my history.

if i type:
slash

along with the drop-down list apearing, i should also get
slash|dot.org|

with the "dot.org" part automatically filled in for me (and selected).

anyways, if you want to see what the feature looks like in mozilla, go to:

Preference -> Navigator -> Smart Browsing -> Location Bar Autocomplete - Advanced...

and turn on "Autocomplete best match as you type".

Comment 3

[André Dahlqvist]

Thanks for the clarfied steps Eric. Confirmed with todays build on Linux.
Setting to NEW.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This is not a Phoenix bug. Phoenix does not use Mozilla's autocomplete code.
Setting Mozilla preferences and expecting them to work is a bad idea.

Comment 5

[eric lindvall]

so does this need to be a feature request?

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verifying