1496686 - Using a keyword with an about: URL displays a not user-friendly sentence in the urlbar dropdown

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1196874

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Franck (Wip)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0
Build ID: 20181001155545

Since I find some about: page too cumbersome to type I bookmark them and associate them a short keyword.
This way I can open about:debugging just by typing "ad".
I do recognize this must be an extremely rare use case.

Steps to reproduce:
  - open about:debugging
  - bookmark the page (Ctrl-D or the star button)
  - edit the bookmark to associate a keyword, e.g. "ad"
  - open a new tab and type "ad"
  - observe the proposed URLs/sites in the urlbar dropdown

Actual results:
  The first entry of the dropdown offers to visit: moz-action:keyword,{"url":"about:debugging","input":"ad"}
  It works, but the label is not user-friendly.

Expected results:
  The bookmark's location should be displayed like any other bookmark keywords do.

I don't know if this behavior is new since I usually don't watch the dropdown when using a keyword.
Moreover it's just a visual glitch since everything works as expected, and restricted to about: pages only.

Comment 1

[[:philipp]]

the issue seems to be similar to bug 1196874 - since it's really rather an edge case, that other bug is classified as P5 priority though. so unless someone wants to work on a fix for this in their free time, it's unlikely to see a solution soon...