2016398 - Firefox Suggest panel name reverts to 'address bar' for a brief duration after restart

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Cristian Baica [:cbaica], Release Desktop QA]

Attachment: address bar to firefox suggest glitch

Affected versions

• Fx 149.0a1

Affected platforms

• Windows
• macOS
• Ubuntu

Pre-condintions
browser.search.region set to US

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch Firefox and navigate to about:preferences#search.
2. In the same tab, in the address bar input 'restart' and click on the 'Restart' quick action.
3. After Firefox restarts, pay attention to the Firefox Suggest section.

Expected result

• No visual glitches occur.

Actual result

• Section name is 'Address bar' then changes to 'Firefox Suggest'.

Regression range

• Not a regression.

Additional notes

• This only occurs if Firefox starts on the about:preferences#search page.
• This only occurs while on US region.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I suspect this is something to do with the QuickSuggest code only being fully initialised after startup. I'm not sure if there's much we could do here without potentially affecting startup performance. Drew, any ideas?