1825751 - Google Trending Predictions entries display a flicker when interacting with urlbar

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Vlad Lucaci, Thunderbird QA (:vlucaci)]

Attachment: 2023-03-31_13h08_11.mp4

Found in

• 113.0a1(20230330214245)

Affected versions

• 113.0a1(20230330214245)

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: macOS 13, Ubuntu 22, Windows 10

Preconditions

• Have VPN connected to US.
• Google as default search engine.
• browser.search.region set to US
• browser.urlbar.trending.featureGate set to true
• browser.urlbar.trending.requireSearchMode
• browser.urlbar.update2.emptySearchBehavior set to 1 or 2 (default being 0)

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch FF.
2. Open a new tab.
3. Click on the urlbar.

Expected result

• Google Trending Predictions entries should not display any flickers when interacting with the urlbar.

Actual result

• Google Trending Predictions entries display a flicker when interacting with the urlbar.

Comment 1

[Dale Harvey (:daleharvey)]

Can reproduce, this will only happen in the case of zeroPrefix, the issue is that top sites are getting shown much faster than remote suggestions. I am not sure if we will want to wait for suggestions or clear them.