Closed Bug 1515601 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Address bar autocomplete does not work

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
60 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: a_pis, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 Steps to reproduce: I start typing a recorded (in places.sqlite) URL in the Address Bar. Actual results: There's no autocompletion Expected results: The URL should be autocompleted since it is stored in place.sqlite (I have verified that).
I checked with my sqlite viewer and observed that the value in the column 'typed' in the table 'moz_hosts' of place.sqlite, was '0' for every URL record! After I changed these values to 1 with my sqlite editor, every URL was autocompleted as expected (by typing the first 1-2 letters). So the bug can be specified asthe following: * Firefox does not record typed URLs as such *
Component: Untriaged → Address Bar
Is this an ESR version? Because v60 is quite old for the main release. The behavior changed recently, and typed is not strictly required anymore. Until bug 1239708 (Firefox 62) it was indeed necessary for a page to be typed for autofill. Though there was also a pref in about:config to change such behavior (browser.urlbar.autofill.onlyTyped if I remember correctly) invalid because it doesn't apply to the current development version.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Yes, it's 60.4.0esr (32-bit). I don't know what version are you referring to. As I said, when I changed the "typed" flags to 1 they all worked fine. They still work fine (Fortunately, they are not changed back to 0!) FF seems to nedd a little manual work to work smoothly. But there are more important problems with 'places.sqlite', that I have already reported and which are not solved so easily **if** they do. Thanks and have a grete new year! Alkis

After 3 months ...

URL autocomplete was functioning well for a couple of months. Suddenly it stopped working! Not only the URLs from 'moz_hosts' in 'places.sqlite' come ever up but not even bookmarks as they always did. In short, in the URL autocomplete problem has got worse!!!
I have deleted places.sqlite trom the FF folder -- as it is suggested by many -- and let FF create a new places.sqlite. I typed in and opened two URLs and the closed FF. When I reopened FF they weren't there. Of course, since they were not stored iun places.sqlite. That is, FF DOES NOT EVEN STORE TYPED URLs ANYMORE!!!

I have the latest FF version (installed today): 60.6.0esr

I am here for any suggestions. Thank you.

After 3 months ...

URL autocomplete was functioning well for a couple of months. Suddenly it stopped working! Not only the URLs from 'moz_hosts' in 'places.sqlite' never come ever up but not even bookmarks and standard sites like googgle, etc., as they always did. In short, in the URL autocomplete problem has got worse!!!
I have deleted places.sqlite trom the FF folder -- as it is suggested by many -- and let FF create a new places.sqlite. I typed in and opened two URLs and the closed FF. When I re-opened FF they weren't there. Of course, since they were not stored iun places.sqlite. That is, FF DOES NOT EVEN STORE TYPED URLs ANYMORE!!!

I have the latest FF version (installed today): 60.6.0esr

I am here for any suggestions. Thank you.

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