When I start typing in a URL for a store that I frequent, and the auto-selector pulls from the URL history, it should first offer just the base-level URL for that store/organization.
Instead, what it does is usually present the URL for a specific item/product at that store/org (which oftentimes I have already purchased!). This is not useful. I usually can’t trust it to pre-fill the URL without having to edit/chop off the URL suffix that it’s offering.
Please change the behavior so the primary offering is just the base URL(but also shows other historical URLs with suffixes -after- it in the popup list).
I agree, to the point I’ve just decided to TURN OFF Browsing History in the Show autocomplete suggestions in address bar under Toolbar within brave://settings/appearance
Not ideal, I would appreciate it to be smarter as you’ve suggested but yeah, that’s my work around for now anyway, so good feedback suggestion
It doesn’t seem like it would be that difficult a change, just a slight re-ordering of the offerings, and it can then help lead to very fast URl selecting.
Ultimately, it’s a subjective choice thing, but I have to believe that most people would feel the same way - you aren’t always going to be going back to the same specific subURL - perhaps a product that you found via a google search, purchased it, set up an account with the vendor, and then start using that vendor regularly - but the URL history keeps prioritizing that first URL from the google search/etc, rather than offering the vendor home page, which seems to make more sense.
@friendlygrey60 if you end up getting any time to experiment I’d like you to see if you can confirm if it happens on Chrome as well. The reason why I mentioning that is I think whatever you’re speaking of is more of a chromium build issue and would have a higher probability of being able to be solved upstream if that’s the case.
I may even come back and try to experiment myself to see if I can determine if there’s any particular settings that have an influence.
