1104141 - Deleting "Visit XYZ" doesn't delete the History-entry

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P5)

Description

[Elbart]

- Type a domain you haven't visited before, i.e geise.de, and hit enter.
- Close the tab and open a new one.
- Type "geise.de", press down-arrow and hit delete to remove the "Visit"-entry
- Open the history and search for geise.de

ER:
geise.de should be gone.

AR:
geise.de is still there.

Before unifiedautocomplete, or with UA disabled, the selected entry was deleted from the history when hitting delete in the awesomebar-results-pane.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

this happens for a UI glitch, the first entry is different than the others, it doesn't support history removal.
fwiw removals are a not very discoverable option, so this is not going to block the feature. we plan a redesign that could address the issue by showing a visual removal option (or a context menu)

Comment 2

[Elbart]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] (needinfo? me) from comment #1)
> this happens for a UI glitch, the first entry is different than the others,
> it doesn't support history removal.

I understand.

Maybe showing the normal result below the "Visit"-option would work too.
Currently, only the "Visit"-option is shown.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

The Quantum Bar does the right thing allowing to only remove certain entries, so it is less confusing, I think the only remaining thing here is to make this discoverable... for which we likely want something like bug 1041761. At that point we could also expose a "Forget about this site" option.

Comment 6

[Tobias H]

From https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675552 :

Hitting (shift +) delete I expect the suggestion to vanish. No matter where it is stored. Until manually visited again.