Closed Bug 634681 Opened 13 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Limit for number of autocomplete entries should apply per category, not globally

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INACTIVE

People

(Reporter: bugzilla.mozilla.org, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110216 Firefox/4.0b12pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110216 Firefox/4.0b12pre

see bug 599909 comment 30 onwards

The problem is that (e.g.) entries from the history can fill up the limit of the autocomplete function (12 entries) and thus displace all entries that might match switch-to behavior, suggesting that no such tab exists.

To avoid such counter-intuitive behavior the limitation should apply per result type (history, switch-to, bookmarks, instant search [via addons], etc.)

Reproducible: Always
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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