1450239 - [about:preferences]"Sorry! There are no results in Options for..." is still present even after you click on another section.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect, P1)

Description

[Oana Botisan, Desktop QA]

[Affected versions]:
- Nightly 61.0a1

[Affected platforms]:
- Windows 10 x64
- Ubuntu 16.04 x64
- macOS 10.13

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Navigate to about:preferences
2. Input an invalid therm in the search bar (eg. sdadasd)
3. Click on another section (eg. Home, Search, Privacy & Security etc.)
4. Observe behaviour.

[Expected result]:
- The Search Results page and the message "Sorry! There are no results in Options for..." disappears and the options for the selected section are displayed. 

[Actual result]:
- The Search Results page and the message "Sorry! There are no results in Options for..." still appears and the options for the selected section is displayed underneath it. 

[Regression range]:
- last good build: 2018-03-20
- first bad build: 2018-03-21
- mozregression concluded that bug 1446657 - Refactor preferences search code to remove flickering and scrollbar appearing/disappearing. might the one that caused this issue.

Comment 1

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

I will add a test for this in bug 1449658. Keeping needinfo open to make sure that I come back to this.

Comment 2

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Will be fixed by the patch in bug 1449658.

Comment 3

[Oana Botisan, Desktop QA]

I verified the fix using latest Nightly on Windows 10x64, Ubuntu 16.04 x64 and macOS 10.13 and the bug is not reproducing anymore. I will mark this bug as verified fixed.