1376911 - Clicking history dropmarker on URLBar shows nothing for a fresh new user

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[KM Lee [:rexboy] (inactivate after Sep. 22)]

STR:
1. open a fresh profile by executing firefox -P, clicking new profile.
2. click on the history dropmarker.

Expected:
Dropdown shows.

Actual:
Nothing happened.

see:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8881826

Comment 1

[KM Lee [:rexboy] (inactivate after Sep. 22)]

Mak has proposed to change the default result for clicking history dropmarker. 
Quoting from bug 1371542 comment 44:
(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] from comment #44)
> (In reply to :Gijs from comment #43)
> > Well, this is targeted for 57, so it seems to me we have time to just fix
> > the url bar instead of working around the issue only to then remove the code
> > again once we fix things 'properly'.
> 
> Note that there's no definition of "properly" yet.
> I could propose to make the default behavior returning anything, restrict to
> bookmarks if history is disabled, to history if bookmarks are disabled, and
> to openPage if both are disabled.
> The code is here:
> http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/
> fdb811340ac4e6b93703d72ee99217f3b1d250ac/toolkit/components/places/
> UnifiedComplete.js#484
> 
> But honestly I have no data to tell if the new setting would be better than
> the old one. For sure "typed" doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, so
> off-hand I'd be fine with the change.
> 
> > Note that I'm also not sure how our search deals work, but if this impacts
> > those because now we search for "Firefox" all the time, that's potentially
> > not a desired side-effect...
> 
> We don't actually "search" for it, we're just fetching suggestions, so I
> don't think it would be a problem.
Yet we have no data to decide if the change brings better experience, I'll collect some UX's inputs before moving on.

Comment 2

[KM Lee [:rexboy] (inactivate after Sep. 22)]

Attachment: screenshot for a fresh user

Using 
BEHAVIOR_HISTORY + BEHAVIOR_BOOKMARK + BEHAVIOR_OPENPAGE + BEHAVIOR_TAG
for a fresh user

Comment 3

[KM Lee [:rexboy] (inactivate after Sep. 22)]

Attachment: Screen for a user with a few pages searched

same above

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Fixed by megabar.