1468320 - Link is updated but content displayed is still for the search result

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect, P3)

Description

[Cristian Fogel [:cfogel]]

Attachment: about _ tracking protection section not displayed after opening options in search.gif

[Affected versions]:
-Nightly 62.0a1

[Affected platforms]:
- win 10x64;
- win 7x32

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Open Firefox
2. Open the about:preferences section;
3. Click Inside the "Find in Options" search box;
4. Type "theme" and press Enter on the keyboard;
5. Click on the Colors button;
6. Close the window;
7. Click on the Hamburger menu;
8. Click on the Tracking Protection button

[Expected result]:
- Link and content is displayed for about:preferences#privacy-trackingprotection

[Actual result]:
- link is updated but content displayed is still the one from the search results.

[Regression range]:
- not a regression.

[Additional notes]:
- attached screencast with the issue

Comment 1

[Cristian Fogel [:cfogel]]

Adding some extra info.

[Affected platforms]:
- macOS 10.13.4;
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Comment 2

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

Interesting edge case for the spotlight feature...

Comment 3

[:prathiksha]

Attachment: Bug 1468320 - Fix preferences search to work well with tooltips. r?johannh

Fix preferences search to work well with tooltips.

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/f1a13ca79a5d
Fix preferences search to work well with tooltips. r=johannh

Comment 5

[Noemi Erli[:noemi_erli]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f1a13ca79a5d

Comment 6

[Cristian Fogel [:cfogel]]

Verified fix with 65.0a1 (20181029100347) on Win10, macOS0.14, Ubuntu16.04.