1611051 - Results from 404 pages history seem to be missing from address bar

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P5)

Description

[sper56]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

Steps to reproduce:

Go to a 404 page such as https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/bad
Go to a 200 page such as https://www.google.com?q=good

Actual results:

When typing "bad" in the address bar, there are no suggestions from history for this keyword
When typing "good" in the address bar, there are suggestions from history for this keyword

Expected results:

When typing "bad" in the address bar, there are suggestions from history for this keyword
When typing "good" in the address bar, there are suggestions from history for this keyword

Seems like this could be intentional, maybe there's some config for it?

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

It is intentional, you can find error pagesin history by searching the history sidebar, but we hide them from the urlbar, unless there's at least one valid visit to them. There's no config for that.

Comment 3

[sper56]

Reopen as enhancement in that case. Feel free to close if still won't fix. Thanks!

Comment 4

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Most likely a wontfix and at least low priority, but we'll keep it open as an enhancement request.