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: Vlad Ghetiu (irc: vladg)
• UX: Alex Limi
• Security: (not sure if this is needed, we already ship a variation of this feature turned off)

Release Requirements

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

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!