270628 - Autocomplete should inline autocomplete with domain of previously visited URLs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 186136

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[gidyn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

1. I click on a link to http://www.foo.com/bar/baa/bla/foobar.htm
2. I navigate to http://sf.net/
3. I want to look at the "home page" for the site I visited in 1, i.e.
http://www.foo.com. Typing "fo" should give me "foo.com", with "o.com" selected.
If I press END, the next directory will be expanded i.e. foo.com/bar, with
"/bar" selected. For an example of this behaviour, MSIE inline autocomplete.
With the existing behaviour, I must type in the whole domain or select the
history entry, then up.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to a deeply nested page of a site with a long domain name.
2. Navigate to a second site.
3. Navigate to the home page of URL 1, or a directory half way down the
previously visited tree.

Actual Results:  
RSI

Expected Results:  
Autocomplete will expand the URL from the history list as I type, first the
domain then one directory at a time.

Shell command line autocompletion could also be used as a model.

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

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