710962 - Typing partial URL in location bar will not bring up that URL despite being in history

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Ramon Casha]

Attachment: location-bar.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111115183813

Steps to reproduce:

Start typing a partial URL "www.mal" which exists in both bookmarks and history


Actual results:

Since v8 of firefox, the list of URLs shown is unrelated to the typed text. The only URL which matches is in the 3rd position in the provided screenshot; sometimes it is not shown, while the other URLs don't match at all.


Expected results:

Only URLs or titles that contain the entire text typed in should be included.

Note: This is a regression

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Ramon Casha from comment #0)
> Created attachment 581867 [details]
> location-bar.jpg

We're ignoring "www." here and matching only "wal"...

Comment 2

[Ramon Casha]

IMO, any text which the user took the trouble to type in should be considered relevant.

Comment 3

[Ada [:adalucinet]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130124 Firefox/21.0
Build ID: 20130124162801

Not reproducing in the latest Nightly build (from 24.01.2013).
If somebody can reproduce this issue, please feel free to reopen the bug.