Solved Address bar auto-complete has been ruined
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@mtaki14 said in Address bar auto-complete has been ruined:
@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?
Yes I do.
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Yep I think got worse in the latest release: there some strange delay also when it tries to auto complete, so maybe if you are too fast to type something it might get overwritten by the autocompletion while you are still typing which is veeery annonying.
Also in the latest realese I'm getting a lot random crashed (where vivaldi just closes and thats it, no crash report window etc) but ye no strictly related to the topic. -
For every step forward in smart technology, there are two steps back for intelligent people.
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The latest release has totally ruined it. It has got rid of including www. in the results but now hardly suggests anything useful at all.
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Here's a video describing my issue btw.
https://i.imgur.com/6be4l1X.mp4
Please do not clear the suggestion when attempting to edit it.
I just removed the bookmark suggestion altogether and that made a big improvement, so did the update.
Thanks for trying to fix this so fast, but I'm a bit appalled this got through Q&A.
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@Thombog said in Address bar auto-complete has been ruined:
Thanks for trying to fix this so fast, but I'm a bit appalled this got through Q&A.
I'm a bit more appalled that their QA missed such bugs, considering the severity and easy+fast reproducibility of the address bar bugs, it doesn't look like anyone tested the address bar at all. Probably they just made a new profile, went to google or facebook and that was it...
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@Thombog
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This is without a doubt, one of the worst changes I've ever experienced. It makes simply entering a search in the search bar of a web browser the most frustrating thing
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Yes. The new auto-complete is unusable. I almost never use "G" (google) or "W" (for wikipedia) in front of my input to search and it worked.
Lets say I will search for "Digital" this happens:
Because the auto-complete thinks i will go to "digitec.ch"
Revert this change ASAP.
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I just dropped into this forum to see if others had noticed the issue I've been having. Apparently so.
For instance: Before, when I pressed 'a' in the address bar, it always filled out 'arstechnica' which I visit a lot. Now, seemingly at random it doesn't, so I have to choose from the dropdown list. Same with other domains. This only changed in recent versions. I had to disable bookmarks, because it chose links from that randomly too. That was not a big loss, since it was unwanted in the first place. I just hadn't noticed that the bookmarks was included, because they never came up on top.
Well, just thought I'd add my issues to the list. Hopefully Vivaldi will fix these bugs.
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Chiming in. The address bar has gotten worse for at least the last three releases. Autocomplete is 50/50 at best, and typed entries don't appear to be getting preferred anywhere at all now. For example, until a recent upgrade, vivaldi:/downloads would be auto-completed within a few characters, because it was the only vivaldi: link I'd go to on a regular basis. Now I have to type the whole thing to get to it. I also have two sites I go to multiple times a day starting with "insta", but only one of them shows up.
ETA: I forgot to mention what a step backwards page title searching is in auto-complete. I use the address bar as my search engine interface frequently, and trying to change a query now keeps bringing up the original.
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If I have auto-complete on, but drop-down disabled with "include typed history" enabled, it does not auto-complete anything inline on addressbar. However, if I have also "include browser history" selected, then it offers inline auto-complete. Better, but still broken. Latest stable.
I just want typed history inline auto-complete without drop-down
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Whatever, it used to work good, now its bad.
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@bariton
Hi, there is no clean way to revert to an older version, you will break your profile. To many changes since 5.5 and Chromium step from 106 to 108.
It make a bit work but you can install older versions as standalone and copy you profile over to test this. The better way is to use the sync feature once to get the most settings and files from your installed version. It is also not a good idea to sync between different versions but sync a never profile into an older version work. You should disable sync after that because it does not work to sync from an older version to a new one.
You can copy other files as History, Sessions manually if needed.https://vivaldi.com/de/download/archive/
Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin No problem, I will just wait for another update.
I am on 5.5.2805.50 and gonna see what happens, the forum is an excellent indicator. -
Using Vivaldi 2881.6, the issue of autocomplete also functioning for page titles as well as URLs is partially fixed. If you type "How to" you'll get the autocomplete interfering for the "how to" page you visited in 2014, but if you type "how to " with a space on the end autocomplete won't interfere.
Slow progress
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5.6.2867.46 (released today) feels much improved. They fixed the issue with bookmarks being pulled into auto-complete regardless of "Always Prefer Bookmarks" being unchecked. I haven't thoroughly tested it (just did the update and poked around a bit) but it's looking better.
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Absolutely still not fixed.
It still give priority to the website title instead of the url. This is really annoying because if you search (for example) a name and click on the founded link then the autocomplete is "stuck" with that link.
An example :
Search for "carlos santana", then click to the wikipedia link in the search result.
After doing that, every time you try to search for Carlos Santana the autocomplete will automatically point to the wikipedia page.The autocomplete should NOT search in the website title.
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Looking at what's going on in this topic, I'm afraid that the address bar will never work like it did before version 5.5.
But... Maybe the address bar behavior change is intentional, at least to some extent? Otherwise, any changes made to the address bar in 5.5 should, in my opinion, be rolled back. If the purpose of the changes was only to improve the speed of the address bar, then regression tests should block this code refactor because it behaves completely differently.
