Solved Address bar auto-complete has been ruined
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Recently upgraded to 5.6.2867.36 as well and it just started trying to autocomplete results in a really weird and annoying way where half of a typed word gets completed to the domain and the 2nd half then gets randomly appended to the autocompleted result, for example typing "feedback" to open up
https://feedback.vrchat.com/will randomly autocomplete tohttps://feedback.vrchat.com/ack. -
A dev is investigating on such reported issues. Stay tuned.
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To add, clicking on the suggested link will cause it to be cleared. In previous cases I could just click, shift, end and delete to remove the excess, but now it gets cleared.
Good to hear it's being looked into
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I think I've discovered a related and somehow even more infuriating bug in the address bar (apologies if it's already been mentioned, I didn't spot it). Sometimes the autocompleted URL in the address bar doesn't actually correspond to the URL that will be visited when you hit enter. In the below screenshot, I've started typing the address of a self-hosted Plex instance and the full URL is autocompleted. However, a Plex-related search from my typed history is also highlighted (automatically, without me mousing over it or anything), and when I hit enter that search page is what I get.
I was just getting used to the aggressive last-visited-page autocomplete behavior, which was annoying but manageable. But now I have no idea where autocomplete is going to send me unless I specifically click on one of the suggestions.
Edit: somehow even more frustratingly, when I clicked the X on that search suggestion and then hit enter, it still took me to that search page. Thankfully, it was gone the next time I tried, but it made no difference as there was yet another Plex-related search from my history ready to ensnare me.
Edit 2: but wait, it gets worse! I went into the settings and disabled the address field dropdown menu, thinking that would fix the problem. Nope! Exactly the same behavior, except now I can't see the random page from my Typed History that I'm about to visit.
Edit 3: disabling "Include Typed History" serves as a workaround. I'm pretty sure the behavior is the same but now the highlighted dropdown item is from History and seems to always match the autocomplete URL shown in the address bar.
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Being noted in the subreddit more frequently also now.
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There's an update baking up
https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/address-field-quick-fixes-2876-11/Should be soon released
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5.7.2876.11 does not fix history items appearing in autocomplete by title. If you type the title of a page you have previously visited into the address bar, it will still autocomplete.
How was so much damage done to the address bar that it's taken this long to fix it?!
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@5eagull
Hi, it was not damaged it was a complete rewrite of the address bar feature and now they have to sort out errors.
I am a internal tester and didn´t find any of the address bar bugs, I simply don´t use the address bar.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Are you saying that you don't test features you don't use and additionally, after rewriting some functionality by developers, you don't do regression against the older version? You're not serious, are you?
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@ourostra
Hi, Vivaldi tester was not the correct description, I test reported bugs in the bug tracker to verify it for the developer and this mostly for mobile devices.
Otherwise I use Vivaldi as user like any other and therefor I didn´t notice the address bar bugs.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Thanks, now I understand the context of your statement.
It's of course possible that the average user didn't notice all sorts of bugs, but overall what's going on since the two "stable" builds is ridiculous
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@thedanbob this has been fixed in the latest snapshot. See VB-93468 in the changelog
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@mib2berlin said in Address bar auto-complete has been ruined:
@ourostra
Hi, Vivaldi tester was not the correct description, I test reported bugs in the bug tracker to verify it for the developer and this mostly for mobile devices.
Otherwise I use Vivaldi as user like any other and therefor I didn´t notice the address bar bugs.Cheers, mib
You are one of the official Vivaldi testers?
@mtaki14 said in Address bar auto-complete has been ruined:
@thedanbob this has been fixed in the latest snapshot. See VB-93468 in the changelog
When I click "check for updates" it says i have the last version, 5.6.2867.36, which has the address bar bug.
Is there an ETA when the new version with the fix will be available?
Thanks
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Apart from everything mentioned above, it now includes www in the suggestions. I regularly visit wnxxforum.co.uk/. In the past I would just type 'w' and it came straight up. Now it lists the last www. site you visited so I have to type wn to get there. Not the end of the world, just annoying.
I would also like bookmarks to be totally excluded from suggestions. Even with 'prefer bookmarks' disabled it populates the suggestions with loads of bookmarks I haven't visited for ages.
Hope the new release as and when it comes out fixes this.
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@davews said in Address bar auto-complete has been ruined:
I would also like bookmarks to be totally excluded from suggestions. Even with 'prefer bookmarks' disabled it populates the suggestions with loads of bookmarks I haven't visited for ages.
Do you have "include Bookmarks" unchecked under the address field drop-down menu section?
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I type "mail" in address bar
-- or even "mail.yahoo.co"
It autocompletes "mail.yahoo.com" in the address bar
When I hit Enter key, it sends me to "http://outlook.com/owa/" from bookmarksVery annoying that it goes to different pages than what is written!
It is clear that changes to the address bar were released without any testing.
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@apekiller said in Address bar auto-complete has been ruined:
I type "mail" in address bar
-- or even "mail.yahoo.co"
It autocompletes "mail.yahoo.com" in the address bar
When I hit Enter key, it sends me to "http://outlook.com/owa/" from bookmarksVery annoying that it goes to different pages than what is written!
It is clear that changes to the address bar were released without any testing.
I imagine a new minor stable release will be coming soon to fix this bug, as it's quite a major one. It's already been fixed on the snapshot version.
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Minor update ready:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/minor-update-5-6/
More fixes will be coming next week, but this fixes most of the worst ones.
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Thx @jon !
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Still broken in 5.6
Instead to only search in the url, Vivaldi insist to search in the title description of the page giving constantly wrong results.
Here i've typed "co" to access the webpage corriere.it (that's present in my browsing history), but vivaldi autocomplete with a totally unrelated page because it search and give priority for CO in the title of the page.
I'm starting to suspect this is not a bug but a new "feature", but it make the autocompletion a lot worse than before.
