1402291 - Selected suggestion was disappeared in location bar when go to a new tab then back to the previous tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Almas Hossain[:mAlmas]]

Attachment: new_tab.mp4

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Firefox 
2. Write any address(e.g. google.com) 
3. While writing 1 or 2 letter location bar suggest some address link which is similar to it
4. Select www.google.com
5. Now open a new tab
6. Go to new tab
7. Then back to previous tab where "google" was selected


Actual results:

It does not show the selected address from the suggestion which i picked. It just show that 1 or 2 letter which was typed. 


Expected results:

Location bar should contain or remember the selected Address link.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This is related to the changes to the undo behavior in the Location Bar. In particular, what you typed (and is stored in undo history) is "go", you didn't type the rest.
What's the expected outcome is debatable.

Comment 2

[Almas Hossain[:mAlmas]]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] from comment #1)
> This is related to the changes to the undo behavior in the Location Bar. In
> particular, what you typed (and is stored in undo history) is "go", you
> didn't type the rest.
> What's the expected outcome is debatable.

But in this case, when I try this in Chrome it was perfect as I wanted. They didn't do this.They store the selected one, not what I typed. And I need that thing not the typed letter.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

But Firefox is not Chrome :) As I said, we need to define an expected behavior, and then based on that this is either a bug or a wontfix.

Comment 4

[Almas Hossain[:mAlmas]]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] from comment #3)
> But Firefox is not Chrome :) As I said, we need to define an expected
> behavior, and then based on that this is either a bug or a wontfix.

Okay, I understand.

Comment 5

[Karl Tomlinson (:karlt)]

I can understand that autocompletions which haven't been chosen by the user might be undone, but removing completions explicitly chosen by the user is surprising and unhelpful.

Comment 6

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

I agree with Almas and Karl, marking this a P3.

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This should be working correctly now