1269093 - NEW URL Results bug with browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete;false

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Sergio]

Attachment: url results bug.webm

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_3) AppleWebKit/600.5.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.5 Safari/600.5.17
Build ID: 20160429004052

Steps to reproduce:

Clean profile, browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete;false and visit some webs (the recommended ones in the tiles will suffice).


Actual results:

With browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete;false sometimes when you start typing the first letter of a web you want to visit the results shown are wrong but clicking it sends you to the correct web anyway cause the webs shown doesn't match the webs you'll visit once you click. (see the video provided).

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Hi, thank you for your report.
Unfortunately that options is deprecated and not officially supported. See bug 1223728.

Comment 2

[Sergio]

I'll inform about this to the people that had rolled back to previous version cause this, and provide them a workaround to remove the "visit url" from the bar.

If someone need it use this code (userchrome or stylish):

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);

#PopupAutoCompleteRichResult > richlistbox > richlistitem[actiontype="visiturl"] {
  display: none !important;
}

Comment 3

[spyer]

So, Firefox intentionally breaks usability for anyone actually NOT doing any search from the URL bar? Just to remind you: if one does not use search from URL bar, this unstoppable new "feature" becomes completely, totally equivalent of hitting ENTER, thus actually worsens user experience of looking up pages from history using a few keystrokes only.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Even if you don't search, the awesomebar keeps working as usual. The behavior doesn't change from years, the only changed thing is the way results are presented, where now the first row indicates the action, that is the same action as before. You may not like, that's fine, but it will help millions of users better understanding the urlbar behaviors.

Comment 5

[Sergio]

(In reply to spyer from comment #3)
> So, Firefox intentionally breaks usability for anyone actually NOT doing any
> search from the URL bar?

Yes, and I've seen lot of people complaining and asking how to revert this change since "browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete" was removed, so maybe an official option to enable the old behavior will make lot of users happy.