URL Autocomplete

Feature	Status	Dev Lead	QA Lead	Status
URL Autocomplete	Landed in Firefox 14	Marco Bonardo	Vlad Ghetiu	OK

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. "/").
This feature is targeted for Firefox 13.

Bug 566489 - Implementation Bug - Enable inline autocomplete again, but make it smarter (perceived performance)

Bug 719890 - Pressing "backspace" in the location bar does not delete the last character typed, if inline autocomplete is active [NEW]
Bug 719888 - Inline autocomplete: Backspace highlights the last character instead of deleting, when first search result is highlighted [NEW]
Bug 720081 - Inline autocomplete drops https and completes without protocol/www [Resolved Fixed]
Bug 721225 - getTextValue is not guaranteed to return the same string that was set through setTextValue [NEW]
Bug 721338 - Typing http://A should preserve user's casing [NEW]
Bug 722323 - It's difficult to type data URI when inline autocomplete suggests very long data URI [NEW]
Bug 726835 - Cannot delete inline URL autocomplete entries Unconfirmed
Bug 739267 - URL bar not catching up with keystrokes NEW
Bug 739580 - Don't ignore search bar keywords for inline autocomplete NEW
Bug 739751 - In-the-middle autocomplete unexpectedly appears in urlbar ("searchstring >> full string") [Resolved Fixed]