Address bar always prefers bookmarks even with the option off

moonfirespam

Windows 10 Pro 1607 & Vivaldi 1.8.755.3 (Official Build) (32-bit)

Ever since this new snapshot, my address bar has been prioritizing my bookmarks over top-level domains. For example, typing "re" makes the autocomplete highlight "reddit.com/r/subreddit/bookmarkedpage" instead of "reddit.com" which I have visited before. The option "Always prefer bookmarks" is unchecked. This happens with multiple of my domains I have bookmarked and only started happening with this new snapshot. I have tried disabling my extensions.

I would appreciate any help.

moonfirespam

Refreshing Vivaldi and importing just my bookmarks did not fix the issue.

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moonfirespam

Couldn't find a solution so I've reverted to 1.7 stable until it's fixed in the snapshots.

Ayespy

@moonfirespam: And yet my snapshot is not broken. It operates the same as the Stable, as far as autocomplete suggestions in the URL bar.

moonfirespam

@Ayespy Thanks for the reply.

I just tried again on a fresh install of the newest snapshot and the bug still persists for me. Here are the steps I took to reproduce it.

Delete the Default folder in Vivaldi's User Data
Open Vivaldi and delete the default bookmarks (because reddit.com is bookmarked)
Uncheck "Always prefer bookmarks" in settings
Bookmark this page (https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5v693t/panhandler_in_omaha/) or any reddit page that isn't the base domain
Visit the "reddit.com" domain at least once so the browser should auto-complete it
Type "re" in the address bar.

This is what I get.

Ayespy

@moonfirespam: What happens if you enable "Show full address?"

moonfirespam

@Ayespy No change in behavior.

Ayespy

@moonfirespam: I get:

moonfirespam

@Ayespy Did you bookmark the Reddit page? Could you try it with a refreshed Vivaldi profile?

Ayespy

@moonfirespam: I never go to reddit. I never have gone to reddit until I typed it in. There's no Reddit bookmark on my system. I can't mess with a clean profile at the moment, as I'm working. Perhaps later.

moonfirespam

@Ayespy Thanks for taking the time to reply while you are working.

I don't have a problem with Vivaldi auto-completing to domains when I don't have a bookmark for a subpage under that domain. It only starts auto-completing to the subpage when I have a subpage bookmarked and only in the latest snapshot. It doesn't happen to me only on Reddit but it was a convenient example.

moonfirespam

@dib_ Issue still persists for me as well.

I filed a bug report.

Ayespy

@dib_: Have you filed a bug report?

mossman

I've had a quick look and I think your problem might be the way it orders suggestions from bookmarks...

I typed "bbc.co" and I got www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer in the suggestion instead of www.bbc.co.uk. I noticed that in the bookmarks listed, it shows all the subpages (iplayer, news, weather...) before showing my bookmark for just the domain www.bbc.co.uk! The suggestion is the top one from the list. This is a case of their alphabetical ordering being wrong, in my opinion.

So I'm guessing you also have reddit.com as a bookmark, and ironically that means it shows up lower in your search suggestions than the subpages you bookmarked...

When I tried with another search for something where I have only a subpage bookmarked but I've previously visited the top-level domain manually, it suggests the typed (without "www"), then visited (with "www") TLDs instead of the bookmark when I type the website name.

mossman

@dLeon said in Address bar always prefers bookmarks even with the option off:

From my logic the sorting suppose to be;

Search

Typed

History

Bookmarks

My second test did take things instead of bookmarks... "it suggests the typed (without "www"), then visited (with "www") TLDs instead of the bookmark" - but I agree that it's confusing since bookmarks are still shown at the top of the drop-down list.

So I think it does actually do what the setting says, but it needs some tuning up of

correctly ordering domains and pages
re-positioning the bookmarks, typed history etc. in the drop-down depending on the settings
maybe change the settings so you can decide for yourself the order of the type of results

moonfirespam

@mossman
I did not have "reddit.com" bookmarked in any of my tests. As I mentioned in my post with the steps, I used a refreshed profile and all default bookmarks were trashed and the trash was emptied.

@Ayespy Bug report key: VB-26146

Winsord

I had to turn address autocomplete off completely after upgrading to 1.8. I loved how it worked before, never had issues with it, but because of how I use bookmarks, the autocomplete feature has now started driving me insane. If I turn on "prefer bookmarks" it resolves to different ones than if it's off, but it resolves to bookmarks either way. The only way around it for now was to turn it off.

moonfirespam

Issue is fixed for me in the latest snapshot (1.9.804.3).