Closed Bug 1524790 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Non-typed URLs appearing in drop-down when 'browser.urlbar.suggest.history.onlyTyped' True

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

65 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: rhpuckett3, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

0: Set preference: "browser.urlbar.suggest.history.onlyTyped" = true
1: Note URL for a previously un-visited link on a webpage.
2: Open new tab, start typing that URL -- (nothing shows up)
3: Return to page on #1, select / visit noted link.
4: Repeat #2 -- visited, but non-typed, link shows up in drop-down list.

Actual results:

Non-typed URL appears in drop-down list when ".onlyTyped" is True.

Note: This used to work as expected; I first noticed it not working in version 65.0, maybe version 64.0.2. Same behavior on Windows 7/10 and Ubuntu 16.04.

Expected results:

Non-typed URL should not have been listed.

Blocks: 1500108
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Has STR: --- → yes
Closed: 6 years ago
Component: Untriaged → Address Bar
Resolution: --- → INVALID

Thanks for the information, I searched, but did not see that this behavior was specifically removed for version 65.

I would like to comment, contrary to the commentary for issue "Remove the history.onlyTyped preference and behavior from the Address Bar" (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500108), that this behavior is not "not-so-useful". It allows filtering extraneous visited links when typing in the address bar.

For example, if I type slashdot.org and, subsequently several pages on that site, then want to type/visit it again, I don't really want to see/have all the sub-pages listed as options, I only/usually want to navigate to the main page. Similaryly for new sites, like the NY Times, etc. Why would I want to see old news links in the drop-down?

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