1642177 - History bar dropdown is showing suggestions which I havent used in the last several years

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1628025

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Mayank Bansal]

Attachment: bug.png

click on an empty address bar
the dropdown suggestions show URL's which I havent accessed in years. For example, mail.yahoo.com

ER: addresses based on frecency
AR: ancient URL suggestions

This is a recent regression

Comment 1

[Mayank Bansal]

2020-05-31T11:20:33.344000: INFO : Narrowed integration regression window from [396da163, 039d58ab] (3 builds) to [d8683450, 039d58ab] (2 builds) (~1 steps left)
2020-05-31T11:20:33.368000: DEBUG : Starting merge handling...
2020-05-31T11:20:33.368000: DEBUG : Using url: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/json-pushes?changeset=039d58aba1f0d071c8d057843db32daa23bdf19e&full=1
2020-05-31T11:20:33.369000: DEBUG : redo: attempt 1/3
2020-05-31T11:20:33.369000: DEBUG : redo: retry: calling _default_get with args: ('https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/json-pushes?changeset=039d58aba1f0d071c8d057843db32daa23bdf19e&full=1',), kwargs: {}, attempt #1
2020-05-31T11:20:33.376000: DEBUG : urllib3.connectionpool: Resetting dropped connection: hg.mozilla.org
2020-05-31T11:20:35.563000: DEBUG : urllib3.connectionpool: https://hg.mozilla.org:443 "GET /integration/autoland/json-pushes?changeset=039d58aba1f0d071c8d057843db32daa23bdf19e&full=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 None
2020-05-31T11:20:35.597000: DEBUG : Found commit message:
Bug 1627989 - Remove the browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus pref. r=dao

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D76247

2020-05-31T11:20:35.597000: DEBUG : Did not find a branch, checking all integration branches
2020-05-31T11:20:35.597000: INFO : The bisection is done.
2020-05-31T11:20:35.597000: INFO : Stopped

Comment 2

[Mayank Bansal]

Attachment: about:support

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

That page is pinned in the NewTab page, based on its badge. Please open about:newTab and unpin it. In the future we'll provide ways to directly manage those in the urlbar.

Comment 4

[Mayank Bansal]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #3)

That page is pinned in the NewTab page, based on its badge. Please open about:newTab and unpin it. In the future we'll provide ways to directly manage those in the urlbar.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1628025 ***

Nothing happens if I type about:newTab in a blank tab and press enter.... How do i remove these sites from the address bar suggestions?

Comment 5

[Harry Twyford]

(In reply to Mayank Bansal from comment #4)

Nothing happens if I type about:newTab in a blank tab and press enter.... How do i remove these sites from the address bar suggestions?

Try about:home. about:newtab will go to a blank page if you have new tabs set to open to a blank page.