1854291 - URL suggestions and autocomplete fail intermittently

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Kurt Felton]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 13; Mobile; rv:109.0) Gecko/117.0 Firefox/117.0
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

I have found this tends to happen more often the longer I use the app. I'll open it, it works, and then after a few pages the autocomplete stops working, and eventually I just stop getting suggestions at all.

So to reproduce, I'd say type into the search bar, if you get results, refresh the page, try again, and just keep going.

I have 9 tabs open too, just giving that info in case it's relevant.

This is the exact bug that was closed earlier in GitHub. I've only started noticing this withij th boast couple of weeks.

Link to GitHub big:
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20351

Actual results:

Suggestions should pop up, and autocomplete should fill in the rest of the url. This happens sometimes but not always.

I typically have to wait about 20 seconds for results to appear

Expected results:

Suggestions should pop up, and autocomplete should fill in the rest of the url. This happens sometimes but not always.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Kurt Felton]

Just to add, this appears to mainly be an issue when not on WiFi. I do not experience this with any other browser when typing in sites I typically revisit and waiting for results in Address bar

Comment 3

[Monica Chiorean]

Moving to mobile product, if component is not correct please update it. Thank you.

Comment 4

[Kurt Felton]

(In reply to Kaoxt from comment #2)

Just to add, this appears to mainly be an issue when not on WiFi. I do not experience this with any other browser when typing in sites I typically revisit and waiting for results in Address bar

I am now able to reproduce this on WiFi as well. The delay isn't as significant so far.

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 6

[Jonathan Almeida [:jonalmeida]]

Thanks for reporting! I have a suspicion that this may be fixed by bug 1839067 in that case as there are two places we could be keeping a network connection open and causing timeouts.

Will try to prioritize reviewing and landing it in that case, and will come back here to see if it improves or fixes it for you.

Comment 7

[Kurt Felton]

Strangely enough I haven't noticed this issue for the past week or so. I wonder if one of the updates fixed it recently? I'm not sure when bug 1839067 drops in stable, but it definitely seems better as of late.