Search bar sometimes fails to suggest opened tabs
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
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(Reporter: robb.eesh, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0
Steps to reproduce:
While having several windows / tabs open, I sometimes forget that a page I want to load is already in an existing tab.
So I start typing the domain name, or words from the title of the page, inside the search bar, to find it in history.
An example, I wanted to view https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/repository_mirroring.html and types "gitlab" in my search bar.
Actual results:
Sometimes, the existing tab is suggested.
Other times, the existing tab is not suggested, even if the searched keyword is present in the tab's title or domain name.
In this case, after typing "gitlab", I received 4 suggestions for queries ("gitlab", "github", "gitlab ci", "gitlab api", ...), and 5 suggestions for past pages I had viewed but were not currently opened in existing tabs.
Expected results:
The opened tabs should consistently be suggested above other search suggestions if they fit the description.
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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It looks like a scoring problem, probably that page is not visited that frequently, and for the string that you typed there were pages visited more frequently.
Do you know that you can restrict searches to open tabs by typing a % char? for example "% gitlab" or "gitlab %" will search for gitlab only in open tabs.
See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox#w_changing-results-on-the-fly
We plan to make those filters more discoverable in the future.
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