I may be switching from FF to IE

Different feature, I am looking for "inline auto-complete" which uses
entries from the favorites/bookmarks.

In reality, in IE6, they all work together, ie, both history entities and
favorites/bookmarks show up during an inline autocomplete return.

Jon

 

Jon Danniken wrote on [Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:55:49 -0700]:

Works for me. Not sure why it doesn't for you.

I have bookmarks I have not been to in several years, and they autocomplete fine
by typing their name

 

I have a computer with IE6 on it and have just turned on inline
autocomplete, but this doesn't seem to work for those URLs already in
favorites only when I add a new URL to favorites.

Perhaps it's the same for FF. If you add a new entry in favorites
perhaps it will show up.

 

I looked at that value, but it was already set to "True".

browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled - Status=default Type=boolean
Value=true

I went to the "home" button and started typing in an entry from my imported
favorites, but I still do not get any inline autocomplete action.

Thanks though.

Jon

 

Thanks Peter, tried that, but it still doesn't work.

Jon

 

Hi Nigel, went to Tools - Options - Privacy, and mine was also set to
"History and Bookmarks" as well. I tried to the other three options
(HIstory, Bookmarks, Nothing), but none of them gave me an inline
auto-complete.

Thanks though.

Jon

 

Actually Jon, IE8 does do this.

 

Hmmm, everything I have read, from user postings to MSDN blogs tells me
otherwise.

You are currently using IAC - from the address bar - with IE8?

Jon

 

It certainly does. From the address bar. Hadn't really paid it much
attention till now. Normally I'm just typing in a web url, which it
lists the first 6 at the top. However, below the urls it then has a
history heading, under which are the top 5 page titles, and under that
is the Favorites heading, under which are the top 4 matches for the
names under which they were saved to your Favorites.

If I start to type in a name that I know is in my Favorites (and there's
no match for basic urls or history), it only lists the matches for
Favorites.

 

Actually, I sent my follow-up just a little too quickly. You need to
type the first 2 characters before it shows any matches in Favorites.

 

Yes, I have seen matches available in a drop-down box, but does it
autocomplete the entry on the same line as the one you are typing in? In
other words, can you type a few letters and just hit ENTER without having to
choose from the list you are given?

Thanks,

Jon

 

Once there is only one item left in the list you can hold down shift and
press enter. Otherwise, if there is more than one choice from the
letters that you type how is IE supposed to know which you want?

And if you don't want the History to show, you can disable it from:

tools>>internet options>>content>>auto complete settings

Though it seems you cannot disable auto complete for any websites you
have typed the url for and visited.

 

Because you set up the names of your Favorites to come up in a particular
sequence, using the order of characters given with the ASCII table, starting
from SPACE. I explained this earlier in the thread, using a three Google
sites as examples.

For IE6, this value is stored in the registry, and consists of the last 20
(IIRC) entries. Removing an offending entry (most often a typo), is just a
matter of removing it from the registry.

In any case, thanks for confirming that IE8 does not have IAC; I was aware
of the drop-down menu, as well as the SHIFT+ENTER technique that MS enacted
for the address bar.

Jon

 

Well you could easily delete all previous urls typed from IE8 and start
afresh, so that's not an issue. What I meant was, it cannot disable the
visited urls without disabling inline autocomplete totally.

Well, it seems to me it does have it, just not specific enough for your
needs because it requires the first 2 characters to be typed before it
will pick up a favorite. Seems good enough for my needs.

 

I to have become frustrated by Firefox- too many "not responding"
issues. I tried Google Chrome and so far its looking pretty good. Even
better than IE.