767364 - URL autocomplete suggests unexpected result, if URL contains percent-encode

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Ekanan Ketunuti]

Attachment: screencast

Steps:

1. I have http://logbot.glob.com.au/?c=mozilla%23developers http://logbot.glob.com.au/?c=mozilla%23jsapi in history
2. Type "log" (w/o quote)
3. Press down arrow key to choose http://logbot.glob.com.au/?c=mozilla#jsapi
4. Press backspace key to delete "i"

Result:

autocompletes to ">> lologbot.glob.com.au/?c=mozilla#jsapi"

Expected:

autocompletes to "i"

Comment 2

[Ekanan Ketunuti]

hmm, bug 775072 doesn't fix this bug. I still can reproduce on latest m-c nightly.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

what is "latest", the 24th August ones?

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

ok, I can reproduce comment 0, _while the ac panel is still open_ with the entry selected, pressing backspace completes wrongly.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

fwiw, this is "autocomplete-in-the-middle" (by the presence of >>), the bug may lay in the controller.cpp code.

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

that said, we should likely not complete in the middle, in this case, the % is probably confusing the comparison (we are likely comparing escaped to unescaped to figure out if we should do common autocomplete or in the middle autocomplete).

Comment 7

[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.