Solved Address bar auto-complete has been ruined
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It's 2022 who types into a URL bar? That's like a baby's game.
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@AshSimmonds not sure if snarky comment, or actually means it.
what do you do instead of typing?
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@nelliott500 I'm not able to reproduce the autocomplete issue you describe. Could you make a short video? Maybe there's something I'm missing.
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I laid out step-by-step instructions here to easily reproduce the issue.
I also just recorded this video: https://i.imgur.com/tUZKzwq.mp4
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@nelliott500 Thanks. Do you have google.com and google.com/drive bookmarked or are they infered from typed history/ history? Could you please enable the dropdown and check where it's autocompleting from
e.g.
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Okay, I'm seeing something similar. I'll raise the issue internally. There was supposed to be a bug fix for this exact scenario aka prefering the root domain if it exists in history but seems that it's lacking somewhere or was broken again by another change.
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@mtaki14 Thank you so much for checking on this. It's been a frustrating two months dealing with this issue.
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Just chiming in to say it's happening to me too. I bookmarked some reddit links and now it will either try to load the bookmarks first, then it will try to do what nelliott500 is showing, THEN it will do what I want it to do.
No guys, if I untick "Aways prefer bookmarks" it should not try to hint a bookmark I made years ago and went to once over reddit which I've loaded over thousands of times. The second issue has already been done to death this topic, so I won't expand on that.
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Holy shit they made things worse... how is this even possible? I just auto-updated to 5.6.2867.36 and now I'm experiencing this bookmark issue that you described. I have "Always Prefer Bookmarks" disabled but it's pulling in bookmarks for autocomplete. I tried enabling and disabling just in case it was stuck in the background but it's still doing it.
The issue with autocomplete using the last visited URL at the domain has been fixed but, for me, this bookmarks issue is far worse.
And they've introduced a whole new issue I just found: When I type a URL that wants to autocomplete to something else, if I remove the autocomplete portion but just happen to leave a forward slash on the end of the URL, it fills in the autocomplete anyway after I hit enter. This is a nightmare.
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Exactly. Articles says that address bar is getting fixes and improvements since v5.5 but opposite is true. Unexpected behaviour. At least the crazy blinking while typing is fixed.
But... Addressbar history is wiped after update. Cool. -
@enc0re said in Address bar auto-complete has been ruined:
But... Addressbar history is wiped after update. Cool.
I didn't see that on Windows at least
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@5eagull Happenned on my two different notebooks, one have win10, other have win11. Happened on Almalinux in virtual machine. I bet it will happen also on my desktop with win10, three win11's and one Kubuntu.
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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?!
