On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Simon B. <[email protected]> wrote:

> Trying to work around this, with my example "skä", I copied the full
> URL (www.svt.... some 100 chars!) and repeated Ctrl+T, Ctrl+V for 12
> times.


We explicitly don't bump the typed count of pasted URLs, in order to avoid
problematic behavior when users paste in things.  These are scored like a
link click instead.


> Also this didn't help the "skä" suggestions - "skä" still shows as row
> 3.


That's because typing from the middle of a word gets results from the
HistoryContents provider, which can't score as highly as the HistoryURL
provider and SearchProvider results that are filling your top two rows.

Some scoring changes I'd eventually like to make might allow this result to
move to row 2 instead of row 3.

However, we will never put this in row 1.  row 1 is the action to take by
default when you press enter, and in order to not make people go insane,
that needs to be whatever action you would expect merely from reading the
text in the edit field, ignoring the dropdown.  Since we can't inline
autocomplete from the middle of a word (and it would be confusing even if we
did), we can only let row 1 be "navigate to what I typed" or "search for
what I typed".

That's not as bad as it seems.  Given the differences between the dropdown
designs, something in row 2 in Chromium is the same number of keystrokes
away as something in row 1 in another browser.

PK

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