1573357 - Incorrect/phantom bookmark and autocomplete suggestions?

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[tshield89]

Attachment: Typed in 'redd'

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Start to type site into address bar
• View autocomplete suggestions

Actual results:

Suggesting incorrect sites that appear to be bookmarked (with a ★ star icon) but definitely aren't, and definitely aren't part of browsing history.

Can't delete related autocomplete entries with highlight and Delete or (Shift+Delete).

Expected results:

Suggesting sites that are closer to the typed query - example typing 'reddit' should suggest reddit.com and not redditblog.com, or typing 'youtube' should suggest youtube.com and not youtubedownloader.com.

Comment 1

[tshield89]

Attachment: Typing 'yout'

Comment 2

[tshield89]

Suggesting sites that are closer to the typed query - example typing 'reddit' should suggest reddit.com and not redditblog.com, or typing 'youtube' should suggest youtube.com and not youtubedownloader.com.

Sorry - should be youtubedoubler.com

Comment 3

[tshield89]

SOLVED - after further digging, it seems like old/NULL URLs had for some reason been stored in places.sqlite. After checking records from both the old and new places.sqlite files, I've gone from 372 NULL/phantom records to only 11:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1170239

It's possible that backing up and restoring bookmarks would achieve the same result, but I only tried the above first:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1117865

I hope posting a 'solution' is allowed for future reference and hope it helps otherswith the same issue. Thanks.

Comment 4

[tshield89]

Attachment: Resolved

Comment 5

[tshield89]

Attachment: Resolved