715102 - Suggest website names while typing

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[dE]

In the URL bar, while a user types, apart from searching for matches from history (1st priority), it should also give suggestions about websites having that string.

For e.g. worldworldworld.net, if a user types in worldworld, FF should search the Internet for a website with a similar name and suggest it.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Currently, the locationbar only autocompletes against the bookmarks & history, it doesn't use the Google autocomplete like the one that you can see in the searchbar.

It's probably a duplicate form an existing bug, where the same functionality is asked as in Chrome (where the locationbar and searchbar are one).

Comment 2

[dE]

I did not find any duplicates however.

Actually this's a bit different, Chromium gives back Google suggestions, but I suggest websites only.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

How do you suggest we get a list of common web site?

We could use a third party web service, but not without sending the URL that you're typing to them, which is rather privacy invasive. Given that, I don't think we can reasonably implement this.