Autocomplete is not very accurate and yields wrong results

[Sh1d0w]

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Describe the issue you encountered:

When I type in the Url bar I don't get the most relevant results that I should get.

I demonstrate this in the following video: http://webm.land/media/n5dh.webm

1. I started to type ve . The one and only website that I have visited and starts with ve is vesti.bg . But as you can see I get irellevant results from developer.chrome .... because it contains ve but it is in the middle of the word and I have visited it recently than vesti.bg.

The correct result appears if I continue to type and there are no other matches in the history, e.g. if I type ves.

This is probably related to #4955 , but I think it has to be fixed in this milestone, because the wrong behaviour is also intorduced in this milestone. If you think this is duplicate report of #4955 please close the issue.

Expected behavior:

I should get accurate results. The check for a matching and order the results by exact domain name match, rather than random occurences in the domain name.

• Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?): All
• Brave Version: 0.12.6
• Steps to reproduce:
  1. As stated above
• Screenshot if needed:
• Any related issues:
  Autocomplete does not work well #3049
  When sorting items in the autocomplete, disregard the www. prefix #4955

[wmeyer48]

I have noticed a great deal of difficulty manually typing the URL in the latest update (0.12.5). Turning off the history match eliminates the difficulty, so I would have to guess you need to do some serious optimization in that area. The observed behavior is dropped keystrokes, so youtube might become yotue. Not pleasant.

[Sh1d0w]

@wmeyer48 The problem with the disappearing characters is reported and fixed in v.0.12.6 (#4731). Just wait a little bit more to be released :)

[aekeus]

I think this is duplicate, so closing. Please re-open if the next preview release has the same issue.