1293042 - Pressing <Enter> after typing URL or search term in location bar at reasonable speed does NOT work. SIGNIFICANT delay.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1279864

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0
Build ID: 20160726073904

Steps to reproduce:

1. Type search term or url into location bar, e.g. "somethingsomething.com" at a reasonable speed
2. Press enter


Actual results:

Location bar starts searching for whatever similar things to populate the drop-down list. There is a SIGNIFICANT delay of up to 1000ms. If <Enter> is pressed during this delay, there is no effect. Result is that I have to wait for this search to complete and only THEN can I search the typed-in words or URL.


Expected results:

What should have happened is that Firefox 48 should never have introduced this "Visit" entry in the drop-down whenever something is typed into the location bar. It is clear that ever since this has been introduced, the delay comes and causes a massive amount of disruption in work-flow. It is extremely frustrating.

I also fail to see the reason for this feature to exist. A user types in to either search something or visit a webpage. The suggestion "Visit <url>" or "Visit <query>" is redundant because one presses <Enter>, and always has, in order to carry out the exact same thing the "Visit" suggestion suggests.

Why must users now instead of quickly pressing <Enter>, have to add more steps in order to do something so simple?

I should add that the "Visit" suggestion only comes after the lag, so it's not like anyone can press-down to begin with, which is yet another redundant action.

Comment 1

[Emil Pasca [:emilpasca]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0

I have tested this issue on Windows 10 x64 with the latest Firefox release (48.0) and the latest Nightly (51.0a1-20160809030200) and could not reproduce it.
After typing a search term or an url into location bar at reasonable speed, I was able to press enter after finishing typing and the desired webpage had opened without any delay.

Can you please retest this using the latest Nightly build (https://nightly.mozilla.org/) and report back the results? When doing this, please use a new clean Firefox profile, maybe even safe mode, to eliminate custom settings as a possible cause (https://goo.gl/PNe90E).

Also could you post a screen recording when encountering the issue in order for us to understand it better?

Feel free to use https://screencast-o-matic.com/screen_recorder if you like.

Comment 2

[Emil Pasca [:emilpasca]]

Marking this as Resolved - Incomplete due to the lack of response from the reporter.

If anyone can still reproduce it on latest versions, feel free to reopen the issue and provide more information.

Comment 3

[fireattack [:fireattack]]

Someone pleas help mark this one as duplicate of bug 1279864