Autocomplete in Nightly

sakusaku · March 8, 2025, 10:13am

Description of the issue:
“Paste and search” is not available in the context menu due to autocomplete
I want it back

How can this issue be reproduced?

Bookmarked www.youtube.com in a new profile
Copied “youtube” to the clipboard
Right-clicked on the address bar
https://i.imgur.com/QRPsjg4.png
https://i.imgur.com/t0Q0VMi.png

github.com/brave/brave-browser

Improve autocomplete suggestions matching for bookmarks

opened 05:57PM - 03 Mar 25 UTC

closed 02:46AM - 05 Mar 25 UTC

brotherJ4mes

priority/P4 QA/Yes release-notes/include feature-request OS/Desktop

### Platforms all ### Description My use case: I'd like to be able to type th…e specific name of a bookmark in the URL bar and hit enter and go to that bookmark. Specific Example: I type "bjgh" which is the bookmark name for my own github page (arconym for "BrotherJ4mes GitHub") I would expect this very specific string to match as one of my bookmark names and the resulting bookmark come up as the first choice. Instead, a brave (or whatever's default) search for "bjgh" is the first choice and I have to navigate down the autocomplete list to find my bookmark. I appreciate that I can turn specific autocomplete suggestions on/off in Brave settings but I thought that turning all of them off except bookmarks would cause bookmarks to show first, but it seems search is always first no matter what. **I think it would greatly improve Brave if within the autocomplete settngs (below):** 1. search was one of the items 2. user could determine the _order_ in which they appear in the URL bar ![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/293a0231-ecaf-4be3-a2fa-6ea1d738d29e) --- I'm a convert from Vivaldi and the analog setting there (below) allows the user to drag and drop the order of the autosuggestions, which is super nice. (I admit I am spoiled by the ultra-customizability of Vivaldi but I like Brave much more!) ![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/49ef5560-db4b-4c93-9f0a-b3afa48e426b) Although all I want is bookmarks to show up first, I tried to make this request more general since I assume different people want different things. I think the ability to change the autocomplete order would benefit others like those that want [bookmark tagging](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1057) and those that want to [disable search entirely on the url bar](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/36689). For now, my workaround is to just use vimium and use the b/B to open a new tab from bookmarks. This is pretty convenient but vimium is not available on all pages and I'd love to have it built in to Brave. If another workaround, extension or setting change exists, please let me now. Thanks!

Brave Version( check About Brave):
1.78.26 Chromium: 134.0.6998.45 (Official Build) nightly （64 ビット）
win11 23H2

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