463062 - browser.urlBar.autocomplete should fill in pre-domain data as well

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 566489

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Mehmet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; de; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; de; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3

Hello,

I have following problem with the autofill-function of Firefox 3.

When I have saved a bookmark, which is beginning with "WWW" (for example http://WWW.google.com)" the bookmark is not shown automaticly in the urlbar, but in the history-popup, when I start to type the letter "g"

When I save the bookmark without "WWW" like "http://google.com", then the bookmark is shown in the urlbar, when I start typing the letter "g".

The Problem is reproducable everytime, when a bookmark is saved with the beginning of "www".




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enable browser.urlbar.autofill in Firefox 3
2. Save a bookmark which ist beginning with "www" for example "http://www.google.com" (and not only as "http://google.com")
3. Start typing the first letter of the bookmark, in this case "g" into the urlbar.

Actual Results:  
The bookmark is listed in the history-popup, but it is ignored by the autofill-function and is not shown in the urlbar automaticly.



Expected Results:  
The Bookmark has to be shown automaticly in the urlbar by the autofill-function although the bookmark is beginning with "www".

Comment 1

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

every history item has "www" in it and therefore the ordering depends on the most frequently visited sites (between bookmarks and history), and being that the awesomebar displays only a handful of items at a time, it could have possibly missed that. Reporter: can you reproduce this on a fresh profile? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager (alternatively you can test this by removing all your bookmarks and deleting your history). see bug 430355 for additional details.

Comment 2

[Mehmet]

Hi.

Yes, I tested it with a new clean profile without any saved bookmark. I also cleaned all private datas.

The Problem only comes up, when the browser.urlbar.autofill is enabled.

For example:

1) type "google.com" into the urlbar. It automaticle jumps to http://WWW.google.com. Now save the bookmark.

2) Now type "maclife.de" into the urlbar. It jumps "only" to http://maclife.de. You see, without WWW in the front. Now save it too.

The Problem is now with the enabled browser.urlbar.autofill function, that when you type "g" into the urlbar, "http://WWW.google.com" will be show in the popuphistory, but it will not be automaticly autofilled into the urlbar. This is because of the WWW in the front.

When you type "m" in into the urlbar, "http://maclife.de" is show in the historypopup AND it will autofilled automaticly into the urlbar. This is because there is NO "www" in the front.

So what I cIould do, is always while saving a bookmark to delete the "www" in font of the bookmark. But that is not the best solution and find a way to fix it.

Hope I could explain the problem ;-)

Thank you in advance.
Mehmet

Comment 3

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Confirmed using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081105 Minefield/3.1b2pre

This is a feature request, though, that the autofill should disregard the "www" like it does for http (i.e. it autofills the url with the absence of http, it should do the same in the absence of www). The problem is that "www" is not a necessity whereas "http" is and therefore can be applied implicitly.

Comment 4

[Mehmet]

Hi,

thank you for confirming ;-)

Hope it will fixed in near future.

Have a nice day.

Mehmet

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

autofill against middle-of-URL matches is a problem we haven't solved, though I think this is probably a dupe.

Comment 6

[Mehmet]

Dupe of Issue 566489.