History forgets old title if URL is revisited and title has changed
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(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)
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(Reporter: isabel.of.ely, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0
Steps to reproduce:
- Visit a webpage, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8
- History now has an entry with that URL and its page title "Unedited Footage of a Bear"
- Revisit the page later, when the title has changed (e.g. if the video is removed the title is now simply "YouTube")
Actual results:
History overwrites the old entry with the original (informative) title, with the new (useless) title.
So now, searching history for "Unedited Footage of a Bear" will not show any results.
Expected results:
A new history entry should be created if the title has changed, so the user has some idea what was at that URL in the very common cases of link-rot and content removal.
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Bookmarks & History' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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This would require a huge rearchitecture, and would not be efficient from a storage point of view. Thus we don't plan to do it because it would be too expensive.
On the other side, if you bookmark a page just clicking on the star, it will retain the current title forever until you edit it.
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