Closed Bug 331512 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Location bar drop down history only loads first item

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P2)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Bookmarks & History
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect

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Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 330126
Milestone:
Firefox 2 alpha2

People

(Reporter: bangbang023, Assigned: brettw)

References

Details

(Keywords: fixed1.8.1, Whiteboard: swag: 0.5d)

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Details 
In the recent Trunk builds, the history in the location bar is not fully loaded. Firefox only seems to show the very first history item and that's it, the rest of the list is simply not there. Reverting back to my 3/18 build, this problem does not exist and the proper history items are loaded in the drop down of the location bar.
(In reply to comment #1)
> probably a dupe of bug 330126

Christopher, can you test with a build since that bug landed? There is also bug 329118 which affects ordering.
It's definitely not a dupe of the 330126. As far as testing with another build, it has occured in both my builds since 3/21. It's not present in 3/18. Is there a particular build you want me to pull from Firefox's ftp to test out? I'm really not sure what you're asking.
The March 23 build should have that patch in it, so I'd be interested in that one.
It happens in both my 3/23 build and also the official 3/23 build.
Assignee: nobody → brettw
Priority: -- → P2
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 2 alpha2
This problem only seems to occur on older profiles. A new, blank profile, fixes it along with the reverse order issue.
This appears to be a trunk-only problem. Christopher, can you confirm this? Is seems MarkPageAsTyped isn't getting called properly.
It seems to be a trunk only issue and only when using an old profile. I also noticed that newly typed addresses would not appear in the history drop down. It seems as though something with older profiles doesn't get along with some change in places after 3/18.
*** Bug 331868 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Whiteboard: swag: 0.5d
I am unable to reproduce this problem. Can anybody confirm? If it only happens on an imported profile, please make sure the latest version is used to do the importing.
(In reply to comment #10)
> I am unable to reproduce this problem. Can anybody confirm? If it only happens
> on an imported profile, please make sure the latest version is used to do the
> importing.

It's a real bug.  Here's what happens.

1.The browsing history shows one web site, <mozilla.org>, though it will show other web sites from Bookmarks if you type in 'www.' and let it offer you choices.  So while it only shows <mozilla.org> currently, I can enter 'www.' and come up with <www.huffingtonpost.com>, and so on.
2.I clear the browsing history so now there is absolutely no browsing history to be seen.
3.I visit a bunch of web sites and try to get back a web history of at least 1 web site.  I can't.  It will not show any of them.
4.Now I visit mozilla.org, and suddenly <mozilla.org> is in the drop-down history.

So, it seems to allow only one website if and only if that web site is <mozilla.org>.

How reproducible is this?  Always.

Further information: If I try other mozilla websites, such as mozillazine.org or  mozilla.com they will not stick in the browsing history.  The only web site is mozilla.org

And to emphasize, it will not allow two web sites, only one web site if that website is <mozilla.org>

It's a peculiar bug you guys created.  I'm on Windows XP, using Bon Echo alpha1, with one surviving extension, being the Gmail Notifier.
It's possible that

1) <mozilla.org> was the first website I visited after or before this bug appeared so that's why the browsing history has become attached to this web site.

or 2) <mozilla.org> is scribed somewhere in the code and that for some reason is the reason why it will only allow this web site in the browsing history.


What build are you using? What is you history expiration set to?

> 1.The browsing history shows one web site, <mozilla.org>, though it will show
> other web sites from Bookmarks if you type in 'www.' and let it offer you
> choices.  So while it only shows <mozilla.org> currently, I can enter 'www.'
> and come up with <www.huffingtonpost.com>, and so on.

What are you referring to when ou say browsing history in this sentence?

> 2.I clear the browsing history so now there is absolutely no browsing history
> to be seen.
> 3.I visit a bunch of web sites and try to get back a web history of at least 1
> web site.  I can't.  It will not show any of them.

Again, where? Are you talking about the places history view? If you are referring to the URL bar, there are two types of dropdowns. The autocomplete as you type and the drop down arrow.
(In reply to comment #13)
> What build are you using?

Firefox/2.0a1.


> What is you history expiration set to?

9 days.

 
> > 1.The browsing history shows one web site, <mozilla.org>, though it will show
> > other web sites from Bookmarks if you type in 'www.' and let it offer you
> > choices.  So while it only shows <mozilla.org> currently, I can enter 'www.'
> > and come up with <www.huffingtonpost.com>, and so on.
> 
> What are you referring to when ou say browsing history in this sentence?

The drop-down arrow button on the URL bar.  The autocomplete drop-down on the URL bar works fine.


> > 2.I clear the browsing history so now there is absolutely no browsing history
> > to be seen.
> > 3.I visit a bunch of web sites and try to get back a web history of at least 1
> > web site.  I can't.  It will not show any of them.
> 
> Again, where? Are you talking about the places history view? If you are
> referring to the URL bar, there are two types of dropdowns. The autocomplete as
> you type and the drop down arrow.

Yeah, the drop-down arrow button on the URL bar.

(In reply to comment #14)
> > What build are you using?
> Firefox/2.0a1.

From which date? All branch builds since 2006-03-17 have been "Firefox/2.0a1"
(In reply to comment #15)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > > What build are you using?
> > Firefox/2.0a1.
> 
> From which date? All branch builds since 2006-03-17 have been "Firefox/2.0a1"

I d/led it off the Mozilla website on March 23rd, in the afternoon.  Is that what you need to know?  In the About box it says, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060321 Firefox/2.0a1".  How do I figure out the date?


The date is here :) -> Gecko/20060321

So that's March 21. Can you please try the latest nightly? I had some important autocomplete changes that went in soon after that.

(In reply to comment #17)
> The date is here :) -> Gecko/20060321
> 
> So that's March 21. Can you please try the latest nightly? I had some important
> autocomplete changes that went in soon after that.

Where would I get the latest nightly?
(In reply to comment #19)
> I think here:
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8/

The nightly was completely non-functional.  The Menus didn't load (Bookmarks, Tools, Help, ...)  They were all blank.  So I'm back at build 20060321.

The bug is still present. :)
Also, if I go back to Firefox 1.5.0.1 (20060111), then the one web site <mozilla.org> is still the only one present.  But if I start surfing a bunch of web sites, then they will appear in the drop-down from the arrow button on the URL bar.

Now when I go back to Firefox 2.0a1 (20060321), then once again I'm stuck with only <mozilla.org> and I can't add any more web sites by surfing to the drop-down from the arrow button on the URL bar.


Also, in Firefox 2.0a1 I can no longer add Bookmarks.  I tried to add the website for this current bug to Bookmarks, and I followed through (even with the improperly sized dialog box) clicking on OK, but it had no effect.  I tried to create a few more bookmarks later but still it doesn't work.  So this is another bug, possibly related.




Teak: I think your profile just got messed up somehow. If you don't have anything personal in your bookmarks_history.sqlite, you could email it to me and I can take a look at it. If you don't want to do that, just delete it and re-import a new one. If the latest nightly is broken, you can try the previous day's (just look in the parent directory of the URL above).

This is another profile that I created a while back.  It also won't show any websites in the drop-down from the arrow button on the URL bar and won't allow me to add bookmarks.  The only difference with this profile from the one I use on a daily basis is that this profile doesn't show the one website <mozilla.org>  It consistently shows no websites.

I'll try a nightly as soon as I have time to see if the problem is solved.
Okay!  I tried today's build of Bon Echo (20060410) and the problem is gone!

I've got an entire drop down history of all the web sites I just surfed.  I'm also able to add bookmarks again.  And alot of other bugs appear to be gone.

Back to testing.  Great job.
This was apprently fixed by to patches on bug 330126 or bug 320181.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 330126 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Keywords: fixed1.8.1
Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv
Component: Places → Bookmarks & History
QA Contact: places → bookmarks
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