422610 - Add an option to restore the URL autocompletion in FF3

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 413211

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[d]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008031300 Minefield/3.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008031300 Minefield/3.0b5pre

The new autocompletion in ff3's location bar searches by url and by the page title.
please add an preference to restore the option to search only by the start of the URL (as in prior versions).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 2

[d]

bug 413211 was closed by mistake (oldbar extension does't
change the search, ohly the appearance)

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

Can you please give an example of what used to work (when searching url) and what does not work now?

Comment 4

[d]

if you type "w" in the url bar in prior versions, the autocomplete box shows
all the urls that -start- with "w".
if FF3, it shows all the URLs which -contain- "w", and all the URLs which their page title -contains- "w".
there sould be an option in FF3 to show only the URLs which start with "w".

Comment 5

[José Jeria]

But how is that helpful? Just type in ww or www and you should see all the results starting with www.

Comment 6

[d]

the problem is that FF3 shows not only the URLs which start with some string (as in previous versions),
but FF3 also shows all the URLs which contain the string, not only in their start,
and also the URLs which their title contains the string.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 409895, "Favor pages that match the start of domain over other parts of the title and url".

Comment 8

[Jonas]

Why is it helpful ?

Because we can go to any of our usual points with three or a maximum of four simple keystrokes + a double one.
That's Ctrl-L + first letter of URL (+ second letter if collision) + down + Return

No illogical selection where m brings lemonde because it's a frequent stop, the right keystrokes are clearly separated.

The speed we get with that is part of the sensation of ease. Typing more would not take much more time, but would be very disagreeable. That's about the reason why Google keeps returning 10 results instead of more: precise measures of satisfaction have shown that poeple liked it less for being slower, even though THEY had asked for more results.

Anyhow, for me, this awesome bar is almost a showstopper.

Comment 9

[Peter]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008070221 (Gentoo) Firefox/3.0

Still missing this feature. I don't want to install an extra extension to get the feature, I want a flag that can switch 'search in title' off.

Comment 10

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

This bug really is a duplicate of bug 413211.  Please do not re-open it again as they both are asking for the same thing.