418228 - Folders and smart bookmarks should appear as auto-completion suggestions in the location bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Andrés Delfino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021803 Minefield/3.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021803 Minefield/3.0b4pre

Smart Bookmarks should appear as auto-completion suggestions in the location bar, presenting one option, example:

Say we have a smart bookmark named "Foo", and we type "Foo" in location bar, this is a simple mock-up of the result appearing:

[page icon] Foo items
All Foo items will be opened.

That way, one could open all items of a smart bookmark from the location bar; which makes the awesomebar even more awesome.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Andrés Delfino]

The same concept could work for folders, so changing the summary of the bug to reflect that.

The icon used in "Foo items" would be a smart bookmark or folder icon, accordingly.

Comment 2

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Again, I don't think we want to add folders into the search here and complicate the type of action that a user can accomplish. This UI is about navigating to a single page, and adding occasional results that cause a bunch of tabs to spring open complicates things without adding a lot of value.