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Originally Posted by Handycam
To be honest, I like the current implementation... I always liked that I didnt need to remember how the url started, only part of it or part of the page title.
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That is strange. I practically know nearly every URL I have in my bookmarks probably 200. Im not at all suggesting this system should be abandoned. My request it to have a setting to alter the order of relevance to be returned first. I'd like a simple function to return TopLevelDomains then SubDomains THEN the million urls. Logically, there is only 1 TLD url, potentially a few SubDomains and potentially thousands of urls in history accessed from these domains.
EG: If I type "apple" id like returned
apple.com
developer.apple.com
discussions.apple.com
support.apple.com
then return the million pages for each TLD then SubDomain
eg
apple.com/mac/
apple.com/mac/macbookpro/
developer.apple.com/audio/
developer.apple.com/audio/coreaudio.html
This way the TLD that you may want is NOT down the very bottom of the list of 1 million urls that have apple in them. Simply, if you really only want developer.apple.com or the pages on that Sub Domain you just type "devel". Surely that is not hard to remember? Currently, if I type "applein" or even "insid" it should be clear I want appleinsider.com first then perhaps forums.appleinsider, but no, it returns a Sub Domain first "forums.appleinsider.com" and a million of the forum's urls (if i have a million visited in history) dropping the TLD I actually want "appleinsider.com" down the bottom of the list. I can't see how anyone can see the sanity in this, it defeats the usefulness of the feature because it would actually be faster have to manually type out the full url (if known) or access it via the bookmarks.
None of this should have any relevance if someone wanted to return a list of urls based on page title. Why? Because as you say, most likely you wont know the url or even the site, so you will only be typing keywords you remember based on page titles. For your example, if you wanted to find that page in history you visited earlier lets use : "snow leopard", you'd type "snow" or "snow l". Currently, and IMO, correctly returns all the urls in alphabetical a-z that have page titles containing "snow leopard".
As you can see Im not suggesting url auto completion using page title or part thereof be removed. As you now see this method of filtering is based from a different line of data entry which is in contrast to entering data based on a known url.
The most comprehensive feature set I have seen is Nikitas Liogka's Autocomplete Manager:
http://www.leogas.net/acmanager/#features
http://www.leogas.net/acmanager/snapshots.html
Im not suggesting OW should offer this level of configurability however.