539466 - Entering search key on History re-orders the listings

Status: UNCONFIRMED

Description

[garym]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.17) Gecko/2010010604 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.17
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.17) Gecko/2010010604 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.17

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When using the incremental search in the history sidebar, the results are not shown in chronological order, so for many news sites it is impossible to guess which of the many identical labels might be the line we want. When the main display sort order is Chronological shouldn't the search results match?

Also, in the search results, there is only the page title, it is not possible to get the date or any other meta-data on the link to help distinguish the link, the only option is to actually load the page and guess from there.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 23 09:53:09 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-rt i686
 CancelOk

the problem persists in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.17) Gecko/2010010604 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.17 and is easy to duplicate

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press Ctrl H to see the history; this bug, 251149 will be at the top of the list
2. enter the search string "[Bug"
3. the history list will CLEARLY show the Bug numbers increasing monotonically.


Expected Results:  
search order results need to be in the same chronological order as the original listing

Comment 1

[garym]

just a note on the reproduce steps: that bug number reflects the Ubuntu bug number;  the effect is the same with any history items where the Title contains some historical ID number or date, the plain listings are sorted by date going backwards, the search results are sorted alphabetically.  Search results should obey the current sort-order settings.