411232 - to prevent flashing (of the autocomplete results) when backspacing in the url bar, attempt to use the previous results

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 424673

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

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to prevent flashing (of the autocomplete results) when backspacing in the url bar, attempt to use the previous results

unlike when typing an additional character, deleting makes it so the current search is a superstring (not a substring) of the previous search, so we ignore the previous results.

see http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/toolkit/components/places/src/nsNavHistoryAutoComplete.cpp#268

what we could do is take the previous results (which should all match, except for any tag results, which are not partial matches) and use them until our search comes back.

the results might jump around, but this might be better than what we currently do.

note, if the autocomplete algorthim changes (see edward lee's adaptive and word boundary patches), this might not be as straight forward.

this suggestion comes from vlad.

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

There's a patch in bug 424673.