1303650 - UI/input desync with awesomebar and keyboard selections

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1303462

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Fyren]

Rather than use bookmarks I generally let the awesomebar remember history and type in certain things to get it to suggest the pages I want and then I use up/down and enter to actually choose.  So I might type part of the title of a certain page to get it to come up at the first suggestion, but the problem happens even when my desired result isn't so specific.

Here's an example:

1. In the URL bar, I type something like "stack"
2. Wait a little (optional step)
3. Press down
4. Press enter

If I actually wait slightly (0.5s is more than sufficient) for step 2, hitting down will select some StackOverflow page from my history and hitting enter will load the URL.  However, if I skip step 2 and perform the others fast enough, this isn't what happens.  Instead, I get taken to about:preferences#search.

I've been using nightly versions for a couple years and this problem of getting taken to the about:preferences page started happening within the last month or two, so probably in 49 or 50.  I don't know if the issue is just slowness with the suggestions filling out.  I can't reproduce this on a blank profile, maybe just because without enough history I can't type fast enough.  I don't know if this was always happening but only recently did the suggestions fill out slow enough that I notice it.

I'm currently using a 64-bit Firefox nightly from the last week on Windows 7 SP1.  I have e10s enabled and have four content processes.  I'm not sure what preferences might be relevant, but here are some I have that aren't default:

browser.search.suggest.enabled;false
browser.urlbar.autoFill;false
browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled;false
browser.urlbar.trimURLs;false
browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete;false

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Current Nightly may behave better, but still this is a bug. Please check bug 1303462.