97031 - autocomplete should search for file: urls if what i type starts with / or c:\

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[Thibault G.]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010824
BuildID:    2001082421

The url bar only displays a complete menu for local addresses
if the address begins by a "file:".
I think that it should also work if the address just begin by a "/", etc.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.type in the url bar a local page, say : /home/thib/page.html
2.press "Enter"
3.type again the address "/home/th" : the complete menu is not displayed
Now, if I type "file:///home/th", the menu appears correctly.

Actual Results:  Complete menu does not appear with local url beginning by "/",
but only with "file:/"

Expected Results:  Complete menu should appear with an address beginning by "/".

(I think it used to be the case ...)

Comment 1

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Well, according to the bug I am about to dupe you to, this really hasn't been in
Mozilla yet.  It's already been requested though.  Hopefully it'll get added in
sometime soon!



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45588 ***

Comment 2

[Thibault G.]

This bug is not a duplicate of 45588 :
I'm not talking here about autocompletion like the shell one,
but I'm talking about the autocompletion using history.

It does work when I use file:///address, but not with /address directly.

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW.

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

changing qa to claudius.

Comment 5

[vectro]

This bug should be fixed by bug 77052, because history will no longer be used.

Comment 6

[Patrick McCormick]

I wrote a patch for the Firebird version of this problem, see bug 233402.  I 
imagine someone could port that to Mozilla.

It isn't true that this bug would be fixed if bug 77052 were fixed.  You could 
fix bug 77052 and still have to type "file:///etc/" to find the file you want.

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

This bug was fixed on Linux SeaMonkey by bug 341504.

Comment 9

[billhiba]

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