397145 - REGRESSION: autocomplete fails when "www" is not present

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Eliot Lear]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a8) Gecko/2007091211 GranParadiso/3.0a8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a8) Gecko/2007091211 GranParadiso/3.0a8

In Firefox 2 and earlier, you could autocomplete without having to type "www".  For example, if you had visited http://www.wsj.com you could simply type wsj and it would autocomplete.  That no longer works.  Instead you have to select from the list.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.wsj.com
2. Go somewhere else (in fact many places so you have a reasonable history
3. Attempt to autocomplete wsj.  
Actual Results:  
You'll eventually narrow a search but you'll still have to select from a list.

Expected Results:  
You should have autocompleted to http://www.wsj.com, requiring a simple "Enter" to select.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007092212 Minefield/3.0a9pre

browser.urlbar.autoFill to true doesn't work in 2.0.0.7 either.

Comment 2

[Eliot Lear]

More information:

setting browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true reverts the browser to previous expected behavior.  This makes a certain amount of sense, and one wonders why it ever worked in FF2, but the behavior in FF3M8 is still a change.  Was this intended?

Comment 3

[Tore Krudtaa]

Any chance to get this to work.

After using Chrome for some time now where the autocomplete works excellent, without any tweaks, it is really awkward to go back to Firefox's implementation of autocomplete is no good (I'm using latest version of FF).

First: 
Why on earth do I have to enter about:config to turn autocomplete on.
This should be on by default, if not, then I should be able to set it on by going somewhere in the Tools->Options

Second:
It might look like a minor thing.... but then again... after getting used to how autocomplete works in Chrome (where it works without the www part), I have really big problem going back to using FF.
It is really nice to be able to enter just one or two letters + ENTER and get where you want.

Could someone please get this corrected in FF please.

This bug is more than one year old now...... time to get it fixed :)

Comment 4

[David Dahl :ddahl]

> Why on earth do I have to enter about:config to turn autocomplete on.

the setting: browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled is set to true by default

The wsj site redirects you to online.wsj.com, even so, on FF 3.1 nightly (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090212 Minefield/3.2a1pre Ubiquity/0.1.4)
autocomplete only requires that you type down arrow once and hit return. 

I vote for a WONTFIX

Comment 5

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

actually, per comment 2 this is WORKSFORME by the reporter.