order of autocomplete entries

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26. May 2010, 19:16:08

epilos

Posts: 2044

order of autocomplete entries

hello

it happens when you start typing a domain in address bar, the autocomplete results in the drop down menu show first bookmark results (that even do not have the typed word in the url, but in the text of the webpages)

below, there are results from history of the domain that matches the word you typed

this is very inconvenient, when you first start to type in address bar you search for url, not for text in webpages (although it is useful to be able to search in webpages text, it is not what you need in the top of the list)

what be best to display at the top of the list of the results, is the matched domains (first, urls that match *word*.* then the *.*/*word*)

you want first urls like this wordsomething.com and somethingword.net, then you want urls like this something.net/blah/word/

and you have to be able to visit the top level domain of the results: eg when it autocompletes word.com/blah/blah, you often want to visit word.com and rarely word.com/blah/blah

can you make it this way?

thanks
Opera 11 on WinXP Pro SP3 • AMD hexacore 3.2Ghz with 4Gb RAM

27. May 2010, 17:57:59

epilos

Posts: 2044

also, when we type "word", the below results appear in autocomplete:

word.com/blah1
word.com/blah2


if we visit word.com/blah2 more often, it should appear on the top of the list!
Opera 11 on WinXP Pro SP3 • AMD hexacore 3.2Ghz with 4Gb RAM

20. July 2010, 15:15:29

grrrrrr

Posts: 71

I agree with you on most points, but I think this behaviour should be configurable in Opera.

I can imagine that lots of users remember what they read on the page more easily than the domain name itself, in which case it's useful to have the history search on the top.

I really like these (again, make them configurable!):

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