1273524 - Visited local websites are displayed in browser history but not on Activity Stream pages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Activity Streams: General, defect)

Description

[Cosmin Muntean [:cmuntean], Ecosystem QA]

Attachment: test page.zip

[Affected versions]:
- Firefox 45.0 and up
- Activity Stream 1.0.16

[Affected Platforms]:
- All Windows
- All Linux
- All Mac OS

[Prerequisites]:
- Latest Activity Stream add-on version (1.0.16) was previously installed on a clean profile.  
- Save/download the website from 'Attachments'. 

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Open the browser with the profile from prerequisites.
2. Open the saved website.
3. Click on "Activity Stream" button from browser toolbar.

[Expected result]:
- The local website that was visited is displayed in "Timeline".

[Actual result]:
- The local website that was visited is displayed in History but is missing from "Timeline".

[Notes]:
- If the local website is bookmarked, it will not be displayed in "Bookmark" screen from Timeline.
- The issue is reproducible on the New Tab page as well.

Comment 1

[Paul Oiegas [:poiegas], PM for Ecosystem QA (OMC, New Tab, Contextual, Nimbus, Experiments), Services QA (VPN, FxA/Subplat, Relay, Monitor), WebCompat QA, and Solo QA teams)]

Filed in Github as https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/issues/713

Comment 2

[Vlad Bacia-Mociran [:VladB]]

jaredkerim said that until we are able to process metadata locally, we can not display localhost/filesystem/vpn pages in activity stream. When we move metadata processing to take place in the browser, we can revisit this.

Leave issue as NEW for tracking purpose.