Firefox/Projects/Awesomeformcomplete

Overview

Sprint lead: Matthew Noorenberghe (MattN)
Sprinters: dolske

Description

Form autocomplete should rank its suggestions using an awesomebar-like frecency algorithm. It should also do substring matches on previously entered entries.

Goals / Use Cases

The form autocomplete currently just shows an alphabetically-sorted list of all matching values (which are tied to the fieldname). This isn't ideal -- frequently or recently used items are buried in the list, instead of floating to the top where they can be more easily accessed. Only prefix matches are shown in the dropdown which is not very useful if the user does not remember the exact text of the previous entry

Non Goals

Eventually it would probably be interesting to implement adaptive-learning, and match across fieldnames (eg, consider <input name="address"> and <input name="addr">).

Design & Bugs

Firefox/Namoroka/Improved form history

• bug 370117 - form autocomplete should sort by frequency of use - review? (dolske)
• bug 446247 - Autocomplete should match any part of the string - review? (dolske)