Firefox/Features/URL Autocomplete

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Feature Status ETA Owner
Inline URL autocomplete Has initial patches written by volunteer 2011-04-15 Alex Limi

Summary

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. "/").

Team

Who's working on this?

  • Feature Manager: whoever is responsible for doing the day-to-day work of driving the feature to completion and updating the status on this page
  • Lead Developer: Michael Ventnor (volunteer) has the current patch, sdwilsh and Blair McBride have helped review so far
  • Product Manager:
  • QA:
  • UX: Alex Limi
  • Security: (not sure if this is needed, we already ship a variation of this feature turned off)
  • Etc.

Team list should make it clear who to ask about what, and who to ping when they're needed. If you do not need someone in a particular role (ie: Security), that's fine, just delete that line. Contact info for each person would also be handy.

Release Requirements

Complete checklist of items that need to be satisfied before we can call this feature "done".

Next Steps

Figure out whether we want to put one of the Firefox team developers on this to get it completed

Open Issues

Performance with a large history DB should be tested.

Related Bugs & Dependencies

bug 566489

Designs

Interaction is described in bug 566489.

Use Cases

See Summary. :)

Test Plans

None so far.

Goals

Make navigation to typed URLs faster!

Non-Goals

Things we are specifically not doing or building as part of this feature.



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