1376870 - In 56 Nightly Awesome bar history are not populating

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Places, defect)

Description

[Christopher Arnold]

Attachment: HistorySuggestionsLackingInAwesomeBar.png

History suggestions which tend to show up in release channel versions of Firefox are not showing up in current trunk release (56.0a1).

Comment 1

[Christopher Arnold]

It appears that the reason the search suggestions aren't coming up is that my history is actually inaccessible to Nightly.  Here is a screenshot that shows my history file appearing empty in 56.0a1, even though I have a 5+ year old profile.

Comment 2

[Christopher Arnold]

Attachment: NightlyUserHistoryEmpty.png

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

You seem to have a corruption problem in places.sqlite or in general in your profile.

Mind to check if any add-on is involved by disabling all of them?
I'd also suggest trying with Places Maintenance https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/, after a profile backup, just in case.

Comment 4

[Christopher Arnold]

Thank you Marco.  Bug still happens when all addons are disabled.  

Places Maintenance did find some issues and repaired them.  However the bug persists when I run Nightly.  It works fine in 54.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

Maybe this could help:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/Places/places.sqlite_Database_Troubleshooting#How_to_(try_to)_recover_from_a_corrupt_places.sqlite
it contains some manual steps to do something similar to Places Maintenance, but in a manual way, so one may check where the process fails.

I assume you used this same profile across different versions? There's a possible backwards incompatibility between 54 and 55 (documented in 55 release notes).
In particular, a database created in V55, cannot be downgraded to 54. But this doesn't seem the case, since your bug happens in 56.

Comment 6

[Christopher Arnold]

Thanks Marco.  As this bug seems to be unique to my legacy-profile.  I think I should close it out.  I did use this profile across multiple versions.  It happens to be a 5+ year old profile.

Comment 7

[Christopher Arnold]

Can't replicate bug with a new profile.