Firefox/Features/URL Autocomplete
| 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: Alex Limi
- 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)
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
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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