Re: address bar dropdown ordering and bug 324662

[Michael Knepher <michael knepher gmail com>]

On 2/13/06, Ari Torhamo <ari torhamo saunalahti fi> wrote:
> ti, 2006-02-14 kello 12:54 +1100, Lex Hider kirjoitti:
> > Hi,
> > I was looking into http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324662 and
> > in my testing I wasn't too sure what the current ordering is in the
> > address bar dropdown list. Is it:
> >
> > 1) addresses I have entered into address bar.
> > 2) bookmarks
> > 3) sites visited
>
> Aren't 1 and 3 practically the same. When you enter an address into the
> address bar, it becomes a site visited when you press Enter. If you
> don't press Enter, the address doesn't become registered at all.
>
> Anyway, if I enter a few letters into the address bar, first on the
> dropdown list are some top level URLs (e.g. not sub pages) with that
> letter combination, they are followed by the bookmarks with the same
> letter combination in their name or subject (these seem not to be
> separated) and the last come the sub pages to the main URLs that are in
> the beginning of the drop down list. These sub pages seem to be in a
> chronological order - I guess this would be the history part.
>
> It's good that you asked, because now I had to make myself aquainted
> with the system, which appears to have changed recently :-)
>
> I'm not sure how my observations relate to the bug report in question.
> Maybe the fact that the main URLs are on the top of the list, sub
> addresses at the end of it and the bookmarks there in the middle is
> confusing the person who made the report.

I think the reporter's confusion is regarding which component the bug
should be filed under. The bug reporter wants bookmarks to always be
at the top of the list. I've been thinking this myself lately, so
maybe I'll go post a "me too" comment.

> I hope this helped even a little.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ari
>
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