51416 - RFE - Automatic removal of rarely visted sites from auto-complete history

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 51331

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[Stefan Vassall]

Build No (2000090208 Linux - Applies to all platforms though)

(See Bug 51331)

Description:

Auto-complete in the address bar always presents all completed
URL's from the address bar. It should remove completions from the history
automatically, if they aren't frequently visted.

To Repeat (worst case - invalid URLs):

1. Type in the address bar news.gnome.org, and vist site.
2. Type in the address bar news.bbc.co.uk, and vist site.
3. Then over, say 2 days vist news.gnome.org 10 times a day.
4. Type in the address bar news.
5. Autocomplete does it works and presents a menu with both URL's to select from.
6. This behaviour seems to be eternal, unless the location bar history is cleared.

Expected/Preferred behaviour:

Auto-complete should detect that news.bbc.co.uk has only been attempted to be
visited once, and once news.gnome.org has been visted many times remove
news.bbc.co.uk from the intially presented Auto-complete hsitory.
Presentation of the auto-complete list should be intelligent, and realise that
some sites are rarely visited shouldn't be presented until the rarely visted
location is the only completion.

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

autocomplete functionality -> ducarroz

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

It's not a autocomplete widget matter but rather an URL bar history problem. Reassign to radha

Comment 3

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51331 ***

Comment 4

[Scott Brodmerkle]

Verifying, clear-cut dup.