1601628 - Search suggestions are delayed after typing and removing a long string in New Tab search bar

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P5)

Description

[Valentina Virlics [:vvalentina], VPN QA]

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[Affected versions]:

• Firefox Release 71, Build ID 20191202093317
• Firefox Nightly 73.0a1, Build ID 20191204095640
• Firefox Beta 72.0b2, Build ID 20191203141951

[Affected Platforms]:

• All Windows
• All Mac
• All Linux

[Steps to reproduce]:

1. Load a new tab.
2. Go to search bar section and type a long string. (~100 chars)
3. Do not hit "Enter" or search arrow.
4. Delete the string.
5. Try to make another search by using a normal length search term.

[Expected results]:
Search suggestions are displayed.

[Actual results]:
Search suggestions are delayed.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I suspect a strong part of this is that we don't have input buffering on the search field on the new tab page. I suspect that's something in our content search UI handling.

Given users are unlikely to enter long strings this way, and then backspace through them, I think this is fairly low priority. Additionally, with the likely future work for handing off the search to the address bar, this would likely go away. So I think we can call this a P5.