762453 - Location Bar drop down popup menu should be hidden when browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled is false

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 672437

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Girish Sharma [:Optimizer]]

1) In a normal session, or a new profile, or in Safe mode, go to about:config and change the preference "browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled" to false.
2) Try to open the Location Bar popup via the histroy drop marker on the right of location bar, or by typing anything in the location bar.
3) Popup does not open ups. There is no error in the error console either.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

was this working in Firefox 13?
I mean, you are completely disabling autocomplete, what are you expecting to get in the popup?
Unless you confused that option for browser.urlbar.autoFill that controls the inline autocomplete feature only?

Comment 2

[Girish Sharma [:Optimizer]]

but the preference name suggests that this preference will control inline autocomplete. Nevertheless, whatever that does, its name has no relation to a pref that controls "being able to open the popup by click the drop marker icon feature".
Moreover, if the popup is not opening any more, the drop marker should hide itself.

Comment 3

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

Which preference name suggests that? autoFill controls the inline behavior, autocomplete.enabled controls autocomplete in general.

Marco's correct that this is expected behavior, but it makes sense to hide the button if it's not going to be functional.

Comment 4

[Girish Sharma [:Optimizer]]

I don't get the summary change, the drop down popup menu is already hidden. I think you must be referring to the location bar history drop marker

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to :Gavin Sharp (use [e-mail] for email) from comment #3)
> Marco's correct that this is expected behavior, but it makes sense to hide
> the button if it's not going to be functional.

makes sense, we already have that bug filed though. So duping.

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Regarding the pref name, it's true the correlation between .autoFill and something we call inline-autocomplete is really weak. Though about:config is intended for advanced users, who are more than able to search online for meaning of each single pref, so we don't often change prefs names just to make them more comprehensible. Common users would just use the preferences window, where the option "Suggest nothing" in autocomplete part disables all of autocomplete features (popup and inline).