1753438 - The “Mozilla VPN” and the “Mozilla Rally” sections are not displayed on the top part of the page when they are searched

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Messaging System, defect, P1)

Description

[Simona Rosu [:srosu], Ecosystem QA]

[Affected versions]:

• Firefox Nightly 98.0a1 (Build ID: 20220203093047)

[Affected Platforms]:

• Windows 10 x64
• MacOS 11.6
• Ubuntu 20.04

[Prerequisites]:

• Have the Firefox browser en-US build installed and opened.
• Have the “browser.search.region” pref set to the “US” value.

[Steps to reproduce]:

1. Navigate to the “about:preferences” page.
2. Search for “Mozilla VPN”/”Mozilla Rally” using the “Find in Settings” search box.
3. Observe the results.

[Expected result]:

• The “Mozilla VPN”/”Mozilla Rally” section is displayed on the top part of the page.

[Actual result]:

• The “Mozilla VPN”/”Mozilla Rally” section is displayed in their default position.

[Regression window]:

• The issue is not reproducible with the older Nightly 98.0a1 build. Considering this using mozregression tools I have found the regression range. Here are the results:
  Last good revision: 66356649d92ea75a45113ac5d9f2da83e5ef0a0d
  First bad revision: da83a7c50181ba92c98e650805fdd7608397e2b0
  Pushlog: link

From this pushlog it seems that Bug 1746509 might introduce this behavior.

[Notes]:

• This issue is not reproducible when a search action is performed for other sections from the “about:preferences” page.
• Attached is a screen recording of the issue.

Comment 1

[Simona Rosu [:srosu], Ecosystem QA]

Attachment: Search_MozillaRally&MozillaVPN.gif

Comment 2

[Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya]]

Attachment: Bug 1753438 - Empty space on search of Mozilla VPN or Rally inside about:preferences

Comment 3

[Cristian Tuns]

Backed out for causing mochitest failures on browser_search_within_preferences_1.js

• Backout link
• Push with failures
• Failure Log
• Failure line: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | browser/components/preferences/tests/browser_search_within_preferences_1.js | Should not be in general tab: moreFromMozillaCategory

Comment 4

[Iulian Moraru]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c128b9597164

Comment 5

[Simona Rosu [:srosu], Ecosystem QA]

I have verified this issue using the latest Firefox Nightly 98.0a1 (Build ID: 20220206212741) on Windows 10 x64, macOS 11.6 and Ubuntu 20.04.

• The “Mozilla VPN” and the “Mozilla Rally” sections are displayed on the top part of the page when they are searched.