360113 - Option to sort location bar autocomplete alphabetically

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[jsimlo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

I suggest an option to sort the autocomplete list alphabetically. This would result in behaviour similar to the old IExplorer. When I typed "moz" there, the
offered list would be:

- mozilla.com/
- mozilla.com/firefox
- mozilla.com/firefox/help
- mozilla.com/thunderbird
- mozilla.com/thunderbird/help
- ....

Currently (ver. 2.0), it is always sorted according to the most visited pages, with no option to change this behavior.

In conjuction with the preference "browser.urlbar.autoFill = true" from "about:config", this offered the user a way to type only the first letters of each part of the address and let the browser's location bar autocomplete the rest of the next part for him only.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Couldn't find a dupe, so confirming.
There was once an extension with this function , Autocomplete Manager, but it doesn't function in Firefox 2.0. Lockups and a weird looking location bar. But maybe there's another extension that I overlooked.

Comment 2

[MrZaius]

Bug 370117 is tangentially related to this one.  In normal text boxes, the auto-fill history IS sorted alphabetically, and in a case sensitive manner.  If the code already exists to track URL use by frequency, it could be used for the textbox auto-fill history as well.

I propose some intrepid and competent soul create the option requested above, but make it control not only the address bar, but all auto-fill drop down lists.  Let us choose whether we want all such dialogs sorted by frequency of use or alphabetical order.

Comment 3

[Nikitas Liogkas]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Couldn't find a dupe, so confirming.
> There was once an extension with this function , Autocomplete Manager, but it
> doesn't function in Firefox 2.0. Lockups and a weird looking location bar. But
> maybe there's another extension that I overlooked.

Autocomplete Manager does function in Firefox 2, and it includes an alphabetical sorting option. It is just slower than the default Firefox autocomplete :)

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

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