1365929 - "Switch to Tab" suggestions should have a higher priority than history results

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[jomo]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170418004027

Steps to reproduce:

I have more tabs open than I can fit on my screen. I entered the full domain of an open tab in the address bar.


Actual results:

Results from my browsing history showed up, "Switch to Tab" did not appear until I entered parts of the URL path.


Expected results:

"Switch to Tab" should appear above suggestions of the same domain.

Comment 1

[jomo]

Attachment: Address bar suggestions with the bugzilla new bug form open in a separate tab

Comment 2

[jomo]

Attachment: Address bar suggestions with the bugzilla new bug form open in a separate tab

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

The switch to tab entries have the same priority as the underlying url.
But you can type the special % char to limit awesomebar results to only switch to tab entries. For example "mozilla %" or "% mozilla" would do.
Assigning a frecency bonus to switch to tab would be a lot of work since the information is stored differently.