467195 - Link displayed in address bar when deleted from URL history list.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 422745

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Aditya]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

Whenever a URL history is deleted from address bar using 'Shift + Del'..after deleting, that URL is displayed in the current active address bar. It should be removed from there as well.

Example, I accessed two songs on youtube and decided to delete one from my history as I dont need it anymore. After clicking Shift+Del on that URL, it is still displayed in address bar even though in dropdown list, some other URL is highlighted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Access atleast 2 websites having your browser history enabled
2. Delete a URL using SHift+Del ( at this point some other URL must be highlighted but the deleted URL will still be displayed in address bar)
3.
Actual Results:  
Deleted URL is displayed in address bar at that time even though a different URL is highlighted in the browser history menu.

Expected Results:  
Deleted URL should not be displayed in address bar.

Comment 1

[Ryan Flegel]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009030422 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.7

I stumbled across the same thing, but found a case where it worked correctly.

Here's the steps I used to produce. First delete any items that match "espn" or "scores" from your address bar history (or just realise the steps won't be exact if you don't :).

1. go to http://scores.espn.go.com/
2. go to http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard/
3. type in "espn" in the address bar. It will match the two address above
4. press Down then Delete to delete http://scores.espn.go.com/. The item will be deleted and http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard/ will be highlighted, however, http://scores.espn.go.com/ will still appear in the address bar.

And here's a case where it works correctly:

1. Repeat steps 1 and 2 above.
2. type in "scores" in the address bar. It will match the same to addresses above.
3. press Down and then Delete to delete http://scores.espn.go.com/. The item will be deleted and http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard/ will be highlighted and properly appear in the address bar like it should.

I think the difference is that it is matching the start of the url (ie, "scores") instead of matching another part of the URL or the title(ie, "espn").

Comment 2

[Ryan Flegel]

Sorry, their shouldn't be a trailing slash on "http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard/" it should be "http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard", but I think it will work either way.

Comment 3

[Strahinja Kustudic]

The same thing is happening on Firefox 3.5b4 on WinXP.
It's really annoying, because when I delete something from the address bar with Shift+Delete it highlights something else, but the address in the address bar stays the one I delete?!

Comment 4

[Emil Ivanov]

You can use only delete key, shift is not needed.