1290151 - Firefox no longer put naked hostname ("youtube.com") ahead of added bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

This is a recent (within days) regression on Aurora 49 but I can't identify the change from commit log.

STR:

1. With a profile that I visit https://www.youtube.com/ home page frequently
2. Type "youtube" on the location bar

Expected:

"https://www.youtube.com/" is ranked top before added bookmarks.

Actual:

All the results are individual videos URLs bookmarked.

Note:

I am sure there is a reason behind this change, but we should have better roll out than what I experienced. A lot of old Firefox users rely and only rely on frecency to find their stuff and seldom use bookmarks.

At least consider high-frecency naked hostname as a bookmarked item...

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

We didn't make any change, afaik.
Looks like something may have happened in your profile.
Anything you did differently than usual?
Any add-ons to check?

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

please attach an about:support log, so I can check status of the prefs and such.

Comment 3

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] (Away 6-20 Aug) from comment #2)
> please attach an about:support log, so I can check status of the prefs and
> such.

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking it shouldn't be add-on because I did restart Firefox with add-on disabled and tried again. 

Upon inspecting the about:support I realized this pref was accidentally flipped:

browser.urlbar.suggest.history

Flipping it back fix my problem.

I wonder which add-on flipped that for me....