scrapmac/Auto-Complete — Issue #13: Seems to conflict with other add-ons' suggestions
Author: Quicksaver
Created: 2012-02-03 20:18:53+00:00
State: open

I like how you seem to have merged together most of the prospector add-ons, I haven't really explored this fully yet but I'm hoping it truly does bring improvements over them.

I believe the "Provides top 5 search suggestions based on the input text using Google Auto Complete" seems to conflict with other add-ons like Omnibar and Peers, when I enable this feature in the Auto-Complete page of the add-ons manager (and restart firefox), no suggestions from these add-ons are shown. Of course eventually I would choose between either Omnibar's suggestions or AC's suggestions, but still until I disable one or the other they should still both appear; however they never appear, neither do the Peers link suggestions which is something I find even most important as in this case it's not a one or the other case.

I haven't checked the source code yet but I'm guessing you're probably overriding these add-ons own components and probably several others as well with similar features (I'm also remembering FastestFox off the top of my head).

I think it's something you have to look at. I have to admit something though, this is probably a feature I still wouldn't use in its current state, it only shows these search suggestions if there are no entries in the suggestions popup, I'd only use it if they appeared always, regardless of how many entries there are in the list, but this is a personal taste I guess.