241850 - "~" character should be resolved to home directory in location input

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[£ukasz Mach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040228 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040228 Firefox/0.8

It would be nice, if I could access to my file in home directory by entering
~/file.html in location bar, instead of /home/users/maho/file.html

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Michael Hendy (Hendikins)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93141 ***

Comment 2

[Alex Hirzel]

v

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Based on comments in that bug, I don't think this is a dup.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

On Mac, if I enter ~/ into Firefox's address bar, it attempts to do a Google I'm-Feeling-Lucky search for "~".  That isn't particularly useful.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

pkasting, are you interested in fixing this?

Comment 6

[Peter Kasting]

Sure looks like a dupe to me.  Can you describe how you think the bugs differ?

Marking depends on bug 76968 just so if I do take a look I know to go peer at what was done to handle ~ there and what additional functionality we need on top of it.

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I don't think this is a WONTFIX, I actually would like this to work...

Comment 8

[Jason Quinn]

This would be really nice for the smart bar. I would like to use the "~username" construct in the awesome bar to quickly take me to home pages on my local machine (usually my own).

Comment 9

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

The front-end team has discussed this, and we're not going to fix this one.

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

Give a reason if you don't think it should be fixed.

Comment 11

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

From what I recall from the meeting, we decided that this was very much a niche request that would not gain us much for the effort required to implement.

Gavin, can you confirm?

Comment 12

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Indeed, we're not going to invest in optimizing something that very few users will ever want to do.