434284 - when doing a history search the results appear in alphabetical order

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 392497

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Kim Holburn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5

IN the history side bar when I do a history search the items appear in alphabetical order, not date order.  If you have a big history, and I do this makes history search almost useless.  Couldn't the view menu apply to the searched items?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open history side bar
2. type search into history side bar search bar

Actual Results:  
Items in alphabetical order or some similar text based order.

Expected Results:  
Items appear in date order, say most recent first.

Honoured the view menu and put the items in date order.

Comment 2

[Mardeg]

Attachment: Sample replacement history-panel.js

This switches the sorting to only alphabetical when no searchterms are used, and goes by the view chosen when a search is entered.

Comment 4

[David Balažic]

This is a duplicate of bug 364325 it seems.
And it happens on all platforms (I only tested Windows, but there is bug 392497 open for linux).

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

this bug has been filed in 2008 with 3.0b5 how can be a duplicate of a bug fixed in 2006 for 3.0a1?

Comment 7

[Thomas Bertels]

Right, marking as duplicate of bug 392497. Sorry for bugspam.