88562 - URL autocomplete should consider the URL's structure

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78270

(SeaMonkey :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[Ilya Konstantinov]

This bug is a proposed usability enhancement.

For example: After browsing both "bugzilla.mozilla.org" and "bugzilla.gnome.org"
for a while, the user types in "bugzilla." in the URL bar. The suggested URLs
are, in the exact order:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/query.cgi
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi
http://bugzilla.gnome.org
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/files/
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/files/help.html
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi

When there are many visited pages within both domains, the user cannot quickly
access the second domain without typing in it's beggining. The sorting function
should take the URL structure into account, rather than simply sorting
alphabetically. It should present the URLs up to a delimiter (either "/" or "?")
first, and only then their variations. In our example, it'll sort the list as:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/query.cgi
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/files/
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/files/help.html

(notice the ".../files/help.html" URL was also moved to the bottom, since the
items with nothing after the delimiter are sorted to appear first)

Comment 1

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78270 ***

Comment 2

[Ilya Konstantinov]

The "duplicate" mark is a bit inaccurate, since my bug is about sorting by URL 
structure while the other bug is about sorting by most frequently visited URL. 
The best way is still up to decision of a UI expert, but why discorage my 
offer as a "duplicate" while it isn't?

Comment 3

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

We only need one bug for deciding how to sort the autocomplete results.  The
suggestions in this bug will certainly be considered.