274274 - Address bar drop down can use the knowledge of quick searches to help complete

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Oliver Cole]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

For example, I have a 'wiki' quick search set up to go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s.

If I have previously entered "wiki Scientific Management", then the next time I
enter "wiki Sci", then the drop down list below the address bar can be populated
with entries where the URL was "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci*", offering me
my full "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20Management" URI from my history.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
n/a

Actual Results:  
n/a

Expected Results:  
n/a

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

hmm, to do this, we'd have to teach autocomplete how to read bookmarks files. 
That doesn't seem like a viable option, since that could introduce a dependency
on browser.

Also, this would be duplicating the way autocomplete works in the search bar.  I
don't think we need to take more code in order to duplicate features.

WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Oliver Cole]

(In reply to comment #1)
> hmm, to do this, we'd have to teach autocomplete how to read bookmarks files. 
> That doesn't seem like a viable option, since that could introduce a dependency
> on browser.

I thought bookmarks files were stored in the same format accross platforms?
Or by "on browser" do you mean, "a dependency on the browser, of which
autocomplete is not a part" ??

> 
> Also, this would be duplicating the way autocomplete works in the search bar.  I
> don't think we need to take more code in order to duplicate features.

Is the code not cohesive enough to be able to use it elsewhere? You have to
remember that people are going to have quick searches that aren't in the search bar.

Oli

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

autocomplete is a part of our generic toolkit, bookmarks are a browser-only beast. 

see mozilla/browser vs. mozilla/toolkit in CVS

And yes, some people will have both, but do we need to have duplicate codepaths
for each variation that someone wants to use?

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change