234290 - Autocomplete should match all parts of strings, not just beginning

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 186136

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Stefan Eskelid]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040210 Firefox/0.8

As it is now, autocomplete always start from the beginning of the previously
typed words. That means that if you don't remember the start of an address, only
parts of it or the end ("I know it was something like '.../xul/rules.html'"),
you will not be able to utilize the autocomplete feature.

If you *only* have lets say 'www.mozilla.org' and 'www.bugzilla.org' stored and
you type 'zilla' in the location field nothing will show. It would be nice if
all typed words containing 'zilla' would be shown, as is done when using Find As
You Type.
The drop-down could display all results starting with the typed string and after
them the results containing the string.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Zach Spoelstra]

sounds very similar to bug #186136

is the type of feature you are looking for?  if so please close this bug and
vote for that one.

Comment 2

[Michael Trimm]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186136 ***