418095 - Allow tagging of a domain or a string. (abbreviation, keywords-like feature)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[[:Aleksej]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021704 Minefield/3.0b4pre

Allow abbreviating a domain, and, possibly, any substring for the needs of autocompletion.


Steps to reproduce (read first):
1.
 Create a keyword “wp” for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s search.
 Tag http://en.wikipedia.org/ with “wp”.
2.
 Visit some pages on the “en.wikipedia.org” domain (especially in the Template: namespace (“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:…”).
 Use the “wp” keyword to visit more of those.
3. Type “en.wikipedia.org Template”
4. Type “wp template” in the location bar (autocomplete dropdown should appear; otherwise call it).


Actual results:
After step 4, none or few of the results from step 3 displayed.

Expected results:
After step 4, there are all of the results from step 3 displayed.


The purpose of this bug is similar to bug 389903 or bug 392143, but its implementation should be more flexible and easier for users to understand.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Note that abbreviating a domain (or another specific part of the URL, e.g. specified as a regular expression) is more useful in case of keywords like “wi”, so it must be possible if the tagging of just a string is implemented.

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

This might also be useful for redirects like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/〈anything〉 → https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/〈anything〉
(even if the secure server is not very official).

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I don't think this is really a useful core feature.  The current location bar search is pretty good and should mitigate most of the need for this, and I don't think it would be more than a niche feature at the best case.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Yeah, I think I still agree with comment 3 :)