Closed Bug 1567599 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

bookmark keywords stopped working

Categories

(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect)

Other
iOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED INACTIVE

People

(Reporter: DougKlein+Bugz, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.142 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I have some keyword bookmarks set up so that I can look things up quickly. For example, I've bookmarked https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/%S and assigned it keyword "usc" so that I can type "usc 3/301" in the awesome bar and go directly to https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/301. This worked very well for a long time. (I set up the bookmarks and keywords on desktop, and they synced to mobile so that I could use them on Firefox for iPhone.)

Actual results:

But recently this stopped working on mobile (iOS) Firefox. Now, instead, whatever I type into the awesome bar is sent to my default search engine (DuckDuckGo). So, in the example above, I would be directed to a DuckDuckGo search page for usc 3/301.

Expected results:

I should have gone directly to https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/301.

This is the functionality provided in Google Chrome by "custom search engines," but Firefox does it with bookmark keywords.

It still works in desktop Firefox, by the way. It just stopped working in iOS. I'm still syncing between them.

Thanks for filing this report.
This is a known issue and it's tracked here: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/4779

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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