1356651 - Don't show search strings from one tab in other tabs' search box

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 248955

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Sayed [:LiquidO2]]

Attachment: bug.mp4

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
Build ID: 20170414100243

Steps to reproduce:

Test Case: 1
* Open firefox and search something(e.g: "Test 1") using the search box (not the url bar)
* Open a new tab

Test Case: 2
* Follow, steps from Test Case 1 and then
* Search something else(e.g: "Test 2") from search box in the new tab
* Go back to previous tab


Actual results:

Test Case 1: Shows same text in the search box of the new tab ("Test 1")
Test Case 2: In previous tab, text in search box changed to the one you searched in the new tab. ("Test 2")


Expected results:

Test Case 1: Search box should be blank
Test Case 2: Text in the search box should have remained as it was before("Test 1")

Comment 1

[Carmen Fat [:cfat] - Ecosystem QA]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0

Hello and thanks for the report!

Following the STR from comment 0, I was able to reproduce the issue on Windows 10 x64, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and MAC OS X.
This is not a regression since this behaviour is also reproducible on an old Minefield build (version 4.0b9pre).