Closed Bug 782150 Opened 13 years ago Closed 12 years ago

url bar autocomplete does not choose correctly

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
14 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 720266

People

(Reporter: illumilore, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1 Build ID: 20120713224749 Steps to reproduce: when typing in a url in the location bar, the drop down menu shows the websites that you most visit, but the autocomplete in the url bar chooses whatever is the shortest instead of most visited Actual results: na Expected results: na
It's the normal behavior see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-your-bookmarks-history-and-tabs-awesome-bar#w_url-autocomplete
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
"It's the normal behavior" The autocompletion is not what this bug was for, it was for it choosing the wrong website.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Can you post some clear steps regarding this? It's working fine for me.
Component: Untriaged → Autocomplete
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Start typing in the url bar, then take note of the url that autocompletes. This happens on both machines that I tested with firefox 14.0.1
This description is not enough, or it is already filed and maybe fixed. These bugs may fit your description: bug 720081, bug 769994.
Component: Autocomplete → Location Bar
Product: Toolkit → Firefox
no info to debug anything, I couldn't understand the bug report.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago → 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
What part of it did you not understand?
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INCOMPLETE → ---
there are no steps to reproduce or examples, I can't figure what comment 0 is trying to show.
example: Start typing in url to location bar. The awesome bar drop down menu that comes up has the most visited site as the first option. As the user types in a url, the autocomplete url functionality of firefox however does not have the most visited site as the completion option. It seems to just choose randomly as far as I can tell.
do you mean the inline completion done in the textfield? That is not related to the dropdown menu. It's not random too, it's just the best match among hosts you visited.
If comment #10, it’s duplicate of bug 720266.
(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #10) > do you mean the inline completion done in the textfield? That is not related > to the dropdown menu. It's not random too, it's just the best match among > hosts you visited. A reply would be polite and helpful
Flags: needinfo?(illumilore)
Whiteboard: [closeme 2013-09-10]
yes. what do you mean by best match?
Flags: needinfo?(illumilore)
This bug is a duplicate of bug 720266, but ill wants to know how inline autocomplete chooses the domain.
Whiteboard: [closeme 2013-09-10]
(In reply to Aleksej [:Aleksej] from comment #14) > This bug is a duplicate of bug 720266, but ill wants to know how inline > autocomplete chooses the domain. then let's do the dup to close the bug. and get an explanation for ill later, or offline in a discussion group
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago → 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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