1918346 - No more autocomplete URLs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Fenix :: Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Mira Lobontiu (Android QA)]

Precondition

Make sure to have a clean profile.

Steps to reproduce

1. On Fenix Nightly open some of the most visited websites (i.e. wikipedia.org, youtube.com, cnn.com, bbc.com, etc).
2. Observe if the autocomplete action is taking place.

Expected behavior

After texting the first letters, the rest of the URLs should be autocompleted.

Actual behavior

I had to manually insert all the URL.

Device information

• Firefox version: Nightly 132.0a1 from 9/11
• Android devices: Google Pixel 6 (Android 15), Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra (Android 14), Huawei MediaPad M3 Lite (Android 7), Lenovo TB X606X (Android 10)

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

We are currently running a test, and are likely to completely remove this feature.

What we have discovered is that

1. It requires us to maintain a list of domains and constantly update it, especially since domains expire and we could direct users to bad sites.
2. Just because a user starts to type something (like cars for instance), doesn't mean they want to go to cars.com.

You will only have to type a domain once, because once you've gone to bbc.com, it will autocomplete.