218089 - Address bar completion fails mysteriously

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Alex Coventry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2

I'm sorry I can't give a repeatable test case for this.  After a while, 
autocompletion in the address bar stops working.  I just never see a list
of earlier URLs as I type anymore.  This happens even if I move my .mozilla
directory away so that a fresh one is created.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Sorry, I can't describe *how* to reproduce the problem, but every mozilla
instance I use ends up displaying this behavior permanently.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla fails to autocomplete URLs.

Expected Results:  
It should continue to provide the autocompletion facility until the
heat death of the universe.

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Under Edit | Preferences | History, what's the value of 'Remember pages visited
for the last 'n' days'?

Comment 2

[Alex Coventry]

Edit->Preferences->History says "remember preferences for the last 9 days."

Something else which may be relevant:  If I try to change this to 200, click OK,
then reopen the preferences window, it still says 9 days.

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Do you have relevant history entries in Go | History (and in the Go dropdown
menu item)?  URL bar autocompletion depends on History, so that's the first part
of this I'd look at...

Comment 4

[Alex Coventry]

Good call: the history window is empty.  Here are the particulars of the 
history files:

cov% find .mozilla/ -name \*history\* -exec ls -lt '{}' \;
-rw-r--r--    1 alex_c   foo         24962 Sep  1 08:59 .mozilla/Default
User/cxmpjp7w.slt/history.dat
-rw-r--r--    1 alex_c   foo        142602 Sep  2 14:25 .mozilla/Default
User/cxmpjp7w.slt/history.txt

history.txt contains URLs from today, but not the most current ones.  Not sure 
how that could be.  The last URL listed in history.dat is months old.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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