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mkycl

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    • In Removing history items from address bar is too easy to accidentally trigger

      The new feature allowing history items to be removed from the address bar auto complete menu is really easy to trigger accidentally. Also, it seems like the removed items are permanently blocked from re-appearing? I may be wrong on this point, it’s possible that it’s just scored so low that it doesn’t appear because the visit count is set back to zero?

      In any event, I think it’s quite a usability issue.

      Potential mitigations:

      • Support ⌘ + z to undo the deletion (I tried this having accidentally deleted an item and it didn’t seem to have any effect)
      • Require confirmation of deletion
      • Require a control key to be held down for the remove button to appear (perhaps hold ⌘ for it to appear and also allow ⌘ + delete/backspace to be used to delete the selected item)
      • Add the ability to disable the feature in settings

      Version 0.99.129-beta (WebKit 619.1.11.111.2)

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      • In Search suggestions doesn't contain all items from history

        Steps to reproduce:

        1. Have your history set to be removed manually.
        2. Have history items worth of few weeks or more.
        3. Enter something in the search bar containing something from your history (from a few weeks ago or more)

        Expected behavior:
        Search bar should suggest the items from history

        Orion, OS version; hardware type:
        Version 0.99.124.4.1-beta (WebKit 616.1.14.11.1), MacBook Pro 16" M1 Pro (macOS Ventura 13.4)

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        • In Partial URLs with .test TLD open search instead of URL

          In previous versions of Orion entering URLs using the .test TLDs without the leading http:// or https:// (e.g. entering example.test/a-url) would open the URL, however in the latest version it instead opens a search for that string.

          Steps to reproduce:
          Enter a URL using the .test TLD without a leading http:// or https:// (e.g. example.test/)

          Expected behavior:
          Open the entered URL

          (Can be worked around by manually prefixing http:// or https://)

          Orion, OS version; hardware type:
          Version 0.99.124.1-beta (WebKit 616.1.10)
          MacBook Pro (macOS Ventura 13.3.1 (a) build 22E772610a)

          • In Separate incognito mode search engine

            There are been a significant growth in paid, private search engines. With these search engines, you need to be signed in to be able to search. While this isn't a problem in and of itself, it can cause problems with certain browser features—like incognito mode. In incognito mode, because cookies are not saved, you cannot search as you are not logged into your search engine. The solution to this? The ability to use a separate search engine for incognito mode only.

            Vivaldi is the only browser that I know of that offers this feature: