78950 - Autocomplete is to save work. Moving mouse or using arrow keys is bogus

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78268

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Trever Adams]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010504
BuildID:    2001050406

The url autocomplete function used to put the shortest match for the text
entered on the line highlighting whatever was guessed.  This saved work because
if it was the right url, enter was all that is needed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to www.cnn.com
2. browse around
3. go to your home page
4. on url bar, enter www.c


Actual Results:  Well, you get a huge list.  I believe arrow keys and the mouse
are all that you can use.

Expected Results:  Same as above PLUS the url bar should autocomplete with the
shortest possible match to what is in there.  This match should have all
"guessed" parts of the url highlighted so continued typing erases it.

This used to work perfectly, but it seems trashed now.

Comment 1

[Alex Bishop]

I'm not sure if this is intentional, but I fully agree. This was discussed a lot
on MozillaZine, si I wouldn't be surprised if it's a duplicate.

Comment 2

[Alex Bishop]

To clarify, I fully agree that autocomplete should fill in the best match as
well as presenting the user with a list.

Comment 3

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78268 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying Duplicate bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

set your search string in mail to "CitizenGKar" to filter out these messages.