308740 - Homepage field not supporting autocomplete for each URL

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[S.Toms]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

When you have multiple webpages listed in the HomePage Location(s) field in
options. The first webpage has autocomplete functionality on form fields, but
the 2nd through the last do not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open more then one browser Tab, each to a different webpage with form fields
2.Click the 'Use current pages' button in options to set HomePage to all Tabs
3.Close browser completely and relaunch Firefox
4.Select any Tab except the first and begin typing in an available HTML form field
Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Autocomplete should have dropped down a list of suggestions as typing.

If you do any of the following;
  click the HomePage button
  select the page from the URL addressbar dropdown
  click the page in the bookmarks menu/toolbar
  enter address within the URL addressbar
  or similar

then autocomplete functions as expected on HTML form fields for newly rendered
page(s).

Comment 1

[John Vandenberg]

The behaviour of this field appears to be different from other autocomplete fields.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Enter a group as the default homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/|http://google.com/
2. Save, and restart Firefox
3. Edit the default homepage to only list the first URL
(http://www.mozilla.org/), and then enter '|http://google'.

The autocomplete functionality should either include
'http://www.mozilla.org/|http://google.com/' because it was previously entered,
or it should be smart and start a new autocomplete.

Comment 2

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

I can't reproduce on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090404 Minefield/3.6a1pre, so marking WFM.  If you can still reproduce on a recent build, please feel free to reopen the bug.

(In reply to comment #1)
> The behaviour of this field appears to be different from other autocomplete
> fields.

Comment 0 is referring to autocomplete in HTML form fields, not the field in Firefox preferences where you type in your home pages.