721338 - typing http://A should preserve user's casing

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P5)

Description

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

If I type http://A I get http://arewefastyet.com/, instead I should get http://Arewefastyet.com/. Removing http and just typing A works fine.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

looks like this is due to urlbarbindings's textValue setter, especially
losslessDecodeURI(makeURI(val)) is clearly lowercasing the scheme and the host.
Also nsAutoCompleteController::CompleteValue in the first if condition uses a caseInsensitiveComparator, and I don't see why (it should rather preserve casing).

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Why do you want to get http://Arewefastyet.com/?

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I don't want to get it as the final confirmed value, but while I'm typing, autocomplete is not supposed to replace my text (both to avoid a "surprise" effect, a "missing control of the app" effect and a distraction). When I finally confirm the autocomplete entry, it can replace it with whatever makes sense.
I figure out the final result is the same, but it's not expected to mess up with what the user is typing.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

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.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This is WFM now.