310770 - Auto-completion of meta data from bookmarks/history

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Location Bar & Autocomplete, enhancement)

Description

[Yuan Qi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Please consider adding auto-completion of bookmarks (names, URIs and metatags)
and history items for Camino. Right now, there are only two browsers that
support this feature. One is Epiphany, which supports this feature natively. The
other one is Firefox, which supports this feature through the myurlbar extension.

This feature is useful because it makes it easier for people to search their
bookmarks and history: People no longer have to open up the bookmarks panel to
search their bookmarks and history. Bookmarks and History are also good sources
of relevant links. In fact, bookmarks are probably more useful to the user than
typed addresses.

The links should be ordered in the following way:
1. Bookmarks
2. Typed URLs
3. History
4. Browse by name

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

We already autocomplete history URLs; bookamrk urls is bug 166288 and bookmark
names is bug 162450.

I'm not sure what else is missing.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

As Smokey said, these are already covered in other bugs. If you have a specific
thing you want added that's not in another bug, please post it here. Otherwise,
this is a dupe of other bugs.

Comment 3

[Yuan Qi]

Saving metatags into bookmarks and autocomplete those?

Here is a more detailed description of the fature:
http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2005/08/01/intelligent-bookmarking-draft/

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Updating summary to reflect comment 3...

For the record, I'd WONTFIX this based on bloat. What you're asking for is more
than just auto-completing meta data, you're asking for a completely new way of
managing and using bookmarks and history. I don't see meta data as being a
useful way to find a link (can we say spam?).

Comment 5

[Yuan Qi]

I think it's better to leave this bug as WONTFIX and I will open a new bug with
better ideas.

Comment 6

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

WONTFIXing per reporter's comment 5.