Asynchronous Location Bar

• Development Status: - Polish and consideration work
• Feature Testing: - Complete (09-25-2009)

Overview

Description

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

Contacts

Sprint lead: Matthew Noorenberghe (MattN)
Sprinters: dolske
QA: tracy

Things We Test

List the tests we have where applicable:

• Unit tests
• Manual Tests
  • query
  • Functional testing only
• Mozmill - a few mozmill test cases will have to be altered and/or added to support this feature.

• Code Coverage
  • Satchel - Lines: 72.9%, Functions: 75.6%

Things We Don't Test

• Performance
• Large form entries (many entries to the same field)

Reference

• Sprint page for the feature
• bug 370117
• bug 446247
• Firefox/Namoroka/Improved form history