1949944 - ManagedBookmarks do not show as suggestion

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, task, P3)

Description

[yellowhat46]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0

Steps to reproduce:

Hi,
I am using Firefox via flatpak and set a policy via ~/.local/share/flatpak/extension/org.mozilla.firefox.systemconfig/x86_64/stable/policies/policies.json:

{
"policies": {
"ManagedBookmarks": [
{
"toplevel_name": "Bookmarks"
},
{
"name": "test",
"children": [
{
"name": "Example",
"url": "https://example.com"
}
]
}
]
}
}

The Bookmarks > test > Example bookmark is correctly created.

Actual results:

If I type "example" in the search bar, it does not show that bookmark as suggestion.

Instead if I create a bookmark "test", if I type "test" in the search bar that bookmark is correctly suggested.

Expected results:

If I type "example" in the search bar, the "example" bookmark is correctly suggested.

Comment 1

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

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

Comment 2

[James Teow [:jteow]]

We should consider whether we should add a manage bookmarks provider (and also potentially autofill?) and allow for the policies to disable this, or just teach Places that these on the fly bookmarks exists.