1580791 - The "Paste & Go" option do nothing if the "@<search_engine>" string is displayed in the "Address Bar"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1580792

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Marius Coman [:mcoman], Ecosystem QA - PTO until 8th of November, for any requests ping :cmuresan]

Attachment: rec of the issue.gif

[Affected versions]:

• Firefox Beta 70.0b5 - Build ID: 20190909162732
• Firefox Nightly 71.0a1 - Build ID: 20190912094122

[Affected Platforms]:

• All Windows
• All Linux
• All Mac

[Prerequisites]:

• Have the latest Firefox Beta or Nightly installed.
• Have any text copied to clipboard.

[Steps to reproduce]:

1. Open the browser with the profile from prerequisites.
2. Open a new tab and click the "Amazon" top search shortcut.
3. Right-click in the "Address Bar" and select the "Paste & Go" option.
4. Observe the behavior.

[Expected result]:

• A search is performed with the default search engine.

[Actual result]:

• Nothing happens.

[Regression Window]:

• Considering the fact that this issue is not reproducible on latest Firefox Release (69.0), using the "mozregression" tool I have managed to find the following regression:

Last good revision: 47e72c204ef61c34509e430c0976f4db680e384a
First bad revision: 580d975db59096011e93150a04856a15b9e8812d
Pushlog:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=47e72c204ef61c34509e430c0976f4db680e384a&tochange=580d975db59096011e93150a04856a15b9e8812d

From the pushlog, it seems that bug 1551598 caused this issue.

[Notes]:

• This issue is also reproducible if the "@amazon" string is typed in the "Address Bar".
• This issue is reproducible with all the top sites search shortcuts (@google; @duckduckgo, etc)
• Attached a screen recording of the issue.

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

This is probably the same as bug 1580792.