Non-typed URLs appearing in drop-down when 'browser.urlbar.suggest.history.onlyTyped' True
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
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(Reporter: rhpuckett3, Unassigned)
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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.
Updated•6 years ago
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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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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