Closed Bug 841832 Opened 13 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Awesomebar should not match "pixels" in image titles

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
57 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: josh, Unassigned)

Details

Typing the keyword "pixel" produces a long list of matches, most of which consist of directly viewed images with titles like "image.png (PNG image, 248 x 50 pixels)". If I type "pixel" or "pixels", I don't want to match automatically generated image titles; I want to match real pages with "pixel" in the title or URL.
Are there any other such keywords that are specially seen by Firefox currently?
I can still reproduce this issue in Firefox 57.
Version: 18 Branch → 57 Branch
It's unclear how we could recognize actual titles from made-up titles, and without that important detail this is not actionable. At a maximum we could give more importance to the first N chars in the title... but that's not a solution. And even if we special cased the "pixel" case, there are probably hundreds other cases, so it's not manageable.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Would it not be possible for code that generates synthetic titles for things like images to flag those titles as such in the awesomebar's database, alongside the other frecency information, and then avoid matching text typed into the awesomebar against those synthetic titles? We don't need to "recognize" those titles at match time; we could explicitly flag them when inserted.
yes, but it would cover a single case, and some user may actually find valuable to search for "pixel" the same way you find it pointless. Without some kind of measurement I really can't tell, and that kind of measurement is more costly than the final benefit...
"pixel" would match literally every image ever browsed to; hard to see how that would have any value. In my case, I was trying to find a specific page that talked about pixel art, and this issue made it get lost in the noise.
well, for example you could write pixel and some other keyword to look for a specific image
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