Deleting autocompleted result does not reassign ENTER key

5eagull

Visit a website like www.amazon.com.
Open a new tab and try to search for "Amaz".
Search bar will autocomplete with "www.amazon.com" -- good so far.
Press DELETE or BACKSPACE to clear result and go back to "amaz". Note how the entry for www.amazon.com, displayed in the address bar dropdown, is still highlit.
With "amaz" in the address bar, hit ENTER. You will navigate to Amazon.com.

Deleting autocompleted results does not re-assign the ENTER key because the autocompleted entry is still highlit in the dropdown. The contents of the address bar should always take precedent over the results beneath it.

Vivaldi 6.5.3206.39 / Windows 11

DoctorG

@5eagull Can not reproduce it. Could be something with settings. Please post cropped screenshot of your Settings → Addressbar → dropdown priority

5eagull

Good news @DoctorG , that means I stand a chance at fixing it. Thanks for offering to help.

Here's how things are right now:

5eagull

Any help on this please? This new address bar has made using the browser such a miserable experience I don't want to do it anymore.
Why couldn't they have just left it alone? I have no idea what's intended and what's a bug, all I know is this is a massive step backward.

It happens even with address bar auto-complete turned off. I type "github.com" into the address bar and the dropdown appears and autoselects a page on Github I visited once. This isn't where I want to go, I just want to go to the front page. I hit ENTER and it sends me to the autoselected page that I didn't want to go to; it'd do that even if I'd pressed DELETE.
The only way to not get it to navigate wherever the hell it wants is to physically close the dropdown to clear the auto-select.

So what we have here is autocompletion even when autocompletion is turned off. Worse, this second-tier autocompletion re-introduces bugs from earlier in the year that would place search suggestions into the address bar.
How am I the only person complaining about this? Please fix it!

5eagull

Reënabling "best result" fixes the majority of this but that also autocompletes search suggestions which is something no human being wants.

5eagull

Any kind of acknowledgement from Vivaldi that this is at least being looked at would be hugely appreciated.

Zalex108

@5eagull said in Deleting autocompleted result does not reassign ENTER key:

Any kind of acknowledgement from Vivaldi that this is at least being looked at would be hugely appreciated.

Hi,
You have to fill a Bug Report in for that.

Kuroodo

I have made my own post not knowing this one already existed: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/93843/how-to-use-keyboard-to-deselect-address-bar-autocomplete-recommendation?_=1703853806983

Since you said this was a bug, I went and tried a fresh Vivaldi install on a different computer and I was able to replicate it after tinkering.
When I set "Browser History" as the first item in drop-down menu priority, the issue occurs. Does not happen if "Typed History" is set to first. I have not tried with others.
So to add on to OP's steps to reproduce, set "Browser History" first in your drop-down menu priority.
Do you know where I could file a bug report?

Kuroodo

So annoying. I just typed "youtube api" in my browser intending to make a google search. Instead it went directly to a youtube video that contained the word "rapidly" in the title lol. Haven't seen that video in like a month.

5eagull

As of the latest snapshot (6.6.3238.3) this appears to have been fixed. Autocompletion is smarter, search suggestions don't appear in autocomplete, and pressing the DELETE key removes a prediction and sets the focus to "go to" which bases itself 100% on what has been typed.
Thanks Vivaldi developers. This has been an incredibly frustrating few weeks and I am very glad to see the back of it.

Kuroodo

I just installed 6.6.3238.3 and there's some improvement but its not perfect.

I tried performing the steps in the OP, and it now works as expected. Thank you!

However for other things, it still needs improvement. If I type "youtube api" on the address bar, it matches a youtube video from my browser history where some word in the title of the video has the letters "api" in it. But it does not try to autofill the address bar with the URL for the recommendation. This is probably because what I typed is not a URL but two words. So if I try pressing DELETE, nothing happens. If I press backspace, all it does is delete a character from my query. I did notice that now I can deselect the recommendation by adding a space, whereas previously it was only by left clicking on the address bar. Still, this messes with my muscle memory from years of browsing, where backspace/DELETE cancels out the recommendation.

I noticed that in Chrome, if I type "youtube api", it gives priority to typed history, search, and search suggestions & autocompletion the moment I add the space after 'youtube'. Where the video shows up all the way at the bottom.

Edit:

Upon further testing, looks like there's some inconsistency. If I type "flutter documentation", it recommends the flutter docs website which is in my history. But this time it does autofill the url bar, allowing me to press backspace to clear that out. This is how it's actually supposed to work. I wonder why it works for this query, and not for youtube?

If you want to try to replicate my results, do this:
In your drop-down menu priority set it like this (I think only first 5 matter?)

Open this video in your browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxrRwoRODmo

Visit this webpage: https://docs.flutter.dev

Now type open a new tab and type "youtube api" in your address bar. You should see the video get recommended, it does not autofill the address bar, and no way way to deselect it with backspace/DELETE.

Now type "flutter documentation" in your address bar. You should see that the website gets recommended, it autofills the address bar, and you can deselect it with backspace/DELETE.

mib2berlin

@Kuroodo
Hi, there are still some fixes for the address bar issues in an internal build but they are not in the snapshot or stable build at moment.
I hope we get a new snapshot at Friday with these included.

Cheers, mib

Kuroodo

@mib2berlin

The issue I described still persists on 6.6.3250.4

Replication steps at the end of my comment

mib2berlin

@Kuroodo
Hi, check always the change logs if something related is mentioned.
This was more of a security update:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/small-chromium-bump-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-3250-4/

Cheers, mib

Kuroodo

@mib2berlin
The most recent snapshot was released in conjunction/follow up with 3249.4 which further addresses address bar issues.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/mail-search-improvements-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-3249-4/

mib2berlin

@Kuroodo
Ah OK, this is really hard to reproduce, I don't have your history and there are many settings involved for the address bar behave.
I try with your settings and get this:

I am really not a good candidate for testing this, I don't use the address bar.

Kuroodo

@mib2berlin

I just tried a fresh installation on a fresh user account on Windows and was able to replicate it.

Just to make it clear, I will rewrite the reproduction steps.

Set drop-down menu priority to match the image in my comment
Visit this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxrRwoRODmo
Then visit this link: https://docs.flutter.dev
On the address bar, type the following exactly: "youtube api"
You should notice:

The video becomes recommended and is automatically highlighted.
The address bar does not get autofilled
You cannot deselect the video with Backspace/DELETE. Only by adding a space or left clicking address bar

Now instead type the following exactly: "flutter documentation"
You should notice:

The documentation website gets recommended and is automatically highlighted
The address bar gets autofilled
You can clear the autofill and deselect the result with backspace/DELETE

mib2berlin

@Kuroodo
I can confirm this on snapshot but I have to test this on my internal build.
Make no sense if it fixed internally but is not published to the snapshot at moment.

Cheers, mib

mib2berlin

@Kuroodo
I can not confirm this on my internal build and snapshot, it select the same but I don't notice it at first test.
This is on Windows 11, Vivaldi 6.6.3249.4 and 6.6.3250.1 internal.
Youtube api work as you describe but flutter documentation shows this:

Kuroodo

@mib2berlin
Your Flutter output is what I meant. You have replicated it correctly.

With this, you can press backspace/delete to clear the selection. If you were to press enter after pressing backspace/delete, it should initiate a search for "flutter documentation" with your search engine. This is the correct behavior.

However with the YouTube example, pressing backspace/delete does not deselect the video. So pressing enter goes to the video URL instead of performing a search. This is the issue, as well as with the inconsistency.