773788 - Provide client-side urlbar suggestions for top domains

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 858829

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Awesomebar suggestions as you type in the are especially useful in mobile, because they save typing.  We can currently show suggestions from your bookmarks and history, and from search providers.

One case we don't handle is entering a URL that does not appear in history or bookmarks.  This is especially important for new users who do not yet have much profile data.  Search suggestions work for this case; Google will suggest "facebook.com" but tapping on the suggestion goes to a Google search instead of directly to the URL.  Also, for privacy reasons we may not want to send URL-like strings to suggestion services (bug 769145 comment 21).

We could address this without the privacy risk by doing suggestions on the client side based on a list of most popular domains/sites.  A static list of the 1000 top domains would only take maybe 5KB of compressed space.

Maybe we could also package other lists for client-side awesomebar suggestions, like a list of the most popular Wikipedia articles...

(Assigning to myself so I remember to work on this sometime, but please feel free to steal it if anyone else wants to work on it sooner.)