69404 - autocompletion expire preference

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Joakim Recht]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-pre1 i686; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010219
BuildID:    2001021906

Manually entered URLs should not be expired, or it should be possible to set for
how long they should be autocompleted. At the moment, URLs are removed from the
auto completion feature after a while, which is pretty annoying.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Enter URL
Wait a couple of days (how many is unknown)


Actual Results:  URL is not autocompleted anymore

Expected Results:  Autocompletion should be preserved

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

They expire?  The urlbar's history is limited by number, not date, is it not?  
And urlbar autocompletion reads from the same datasource as urlbar history.

Comment 2

[Claudius Gayle]

yeah, what Blake said. You(reporter(god)) seem to type in a lot of url's. The datasource
is capped at 50 or 100 or something like that. Maybe if alecf is feeling nice he'll tell you
where/which pref to hand edit to change this to an arbitrarily large number.

somebody click verified so I don't look like an overbearing meanie but both resolving and
verifying this as WONTFIX (unless of course I'm wrong)

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Looks like it can hold 100 items, and we display up to 15 in the menu.  These 
actually aren't prefs, it seems, they're constants in sessionHistoryUI.js.

I'll verify it ;-)

Comment 4

[Joakim Recht]

How about making it an adjustable value, then? Of course, one could just use
bookmarks instead, but for some reason I like the autocompletion feature
better... Keeps the number of bookmarks down.

Comment 5

[Alec Flett]

if I recall correctly, it's not capped...

Comment 6

[Alec Flett]

sorry, didn't read the whole bug, it is capped, my bad :)
sure, we could make this a hidden pref

Comment 7

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW & changing summary.

Comment 8

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Not a mozilla1.0 stopper, marking mozilla1.1

Comment 9

[Alec Flett]

reassign url bar bugs to new owner..

Comment 10

[Blake Ross]

I'm not in the hidden pref business to add prefs that only please a few users,
sorry.

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying WontFix bugs which haven't changed since 2001-12-31.

use the search string "BoletusEdulis" if you want to filter out this msg.