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ms4132
Jun 10, 2019Steel Contributor
Address Autocomplete Inconsistent Behavior
The autocomplete of the address bar is inconsistent for me and sometimes seems to forget previous entries. As an example, even though I have visited microsoft.com before, sometimes: - if I type ...
ikjadoon
Jun 10, 2019Bronze Contributor
Wow, yes! I've been noticing this for a while and couldn't figure out what was wrong. I'm seeing identical behaviour: the autocomplete in the address bar refuses to suggest proper URLs.
The sorting algorithm is super off.
For example, I've visited theintercept.com. But I can type "inter" and Chromium Edge will suggest these results first somehow (as it's matching title first, instead of title and URL first):
This has happened on many results. Once I catch more of them and screenshot, I'll post here.
This bug/sort is my #1 issue with the day-to-day use of Chromium Edge. The autocomplete needs to prioritize when the URL and title match, not just the title (i.e., everybody writes incredibly long page titles for SEO these days).