430756 - Auto complete/Location bar don't remember typed-in downloaded file URLs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[François Gagné]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008042106 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008042106 Minefield/3.0pre

If you manually type a file URL to download in the location bar it won't remember it. In clear, re-typing that URL in the location bar don't auto complete it.

Test URL: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-3.0pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe

I know that it works fine in Firefox 2.0

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Confirmed on Windows XP. 

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

File downloads don't show up in the location bar.

places.frecency.downloadVisitBonus is default to 0

If you view the file in the browser, it will show up in the auto complete.

Comment 3

[François Gagné]

Ah! I didn't know there was 'places.frecency.downloadVisitBonus'.

It seems places.frecency.typedVisitBonus should apply to typed downloads (since there is not the term _link_ in the variable name)?

For other related variables see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Places.frecency.(visit_type)VisitBonus 

Comment 4

[François Gagné]

Is this a regression or a deliberate change?

Comment 5

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Are downloads supposed to not show up in the location bar? Or should we give it a frecency of something non-zero?

I suppose it's a regression from firefox 2 where it would show downloads like .zip or .exe files.

Comment 6

[François Gagné]

If you give a value to 'places.frecency.downloadVisitBonus' it will remember all downloads, not only those typed-in.

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to Edward Lee :Mardak from comment #5)
> Are downloads supposed to not show up in the location bar? Or should we give
> it a frecency of something non-zero?

I think the current behavior makes sense, we want to limit noise in the awesomebar and downloads case doesn't look like a really important one to support, so it's a good candidate to be excluded.