Firefox/Features/URL Autocomplete

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Status

Inline URL autocomplete
Stage	Development
Status	In progress
Release target	Firefox 12
Health	OK
Status note	Solving remaining dependencies, almost ready to land in Nightly

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Team

Product manager	Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual	Alex Limi
Lead engineer	Michael Ventnor
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Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	Vlad Ghetiu (irc: vladg)
UX lead	Alex Limi
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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Open issues/risks

Performance with a large history DB should be tested.

Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Enabling autocomplete inline in the URL entry field makes it easier to enter often-typed URLs, and make our browser feel a lot faster, since the user gets immediate feedback on where we think they will go.

We stopped “speaking URL” when AwesomeBar came along, and it makes us seem slower when typing a URL. A large portion of people still "speak URLs" when navigating the internet, and we currently do a bad job at accommodating these people.

We propose to turn on inline autocomplete, with some additional changes that make it stop completion at URL boundaries (e.g. "/").

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

A working, tested implementation that satisfies the design specification in bug 566489.

Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

Interaction is described in bug 566489.

Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

• bug 566489

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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We stopped “speaking URL” when AwesomeBar came along, and it makes us seem slower when typing a URL. A large portion of people still "speak URLs" when navigating the internet, and we currently do a bad job at accommodating these people.

We propose to turn on inline autocomplete, with some additional changes that make it stop completion at URL boundaries (e.g. "/"). |Feature users and use cases=` |Feature dependencies=` |Feature requirements=A working, tested implementation that satisfies the design specification in bug 566489. |Feature non-goals=` |Feature functional spec=` |Feature ux design=Interaction is described in bug 566489. |Feature implementation plan=` |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=` |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=* bug 566489 |Feature landing criteria=` }}

Feature details

Priority	P2
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	Experience
Roadmap	User Experience
Secondary roadmap	Firefox Desktop
Feature list	Desktop
Project	Responsiveness
Engineering team	Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

	status	notes
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Engineering	`	`
Security	sec-review-unnecessary	`
Privacy	`	`
Localization	`	`
Accessibility	`	`
Quality assurance	`	`
User experience	OK	Seems to work well, some slight performance issues with the URL bar that may or may not be related to this particular change.
Product marketing	`	`
Operations	`	`

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