541077 - 'Clear recent history' does not clear awesome bar autocomplete

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ed Avis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Go to Tools -> Clear Recent History, select time range Everything and tick every checkbox, then 'Clear Now'.

Then open a new tab, click in the address bar and type a letter such as 'l'.

Expected behaviour: because the history has been completely wiped, no autocomplete suggestions will be shown by the awesome bar, or at most they will be generic suggestions not based on my browsing history.

Observed behaviour: on typing a letter a list of suggested completions appears, all of them sites I have visited in the past using Firefox.

I flagged this as 'major' because surely clearing the awesome bar autocomplete is the #1 reason for the 'clear recent history' function to exist, and it's not working.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Can you reproduce in Safe mode? http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

Do you see a star near the items that are not cleared? notice autocomplete will still suggest bookmarked websites if you don't explicitly choice to show only history in preferences.

Are the suggested pages children of a Live bookmark (feed)?

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

If none of the above suggestions work (in the specified order), please try this one.
Open Tools/Error Console, in the Eval field paste this code:

Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/PlacesDBUtils.jsm");PlacesDBUtils.checkAndFixDatabase();

click Eval button, wait till a couple minutes (depending on hardware and profile), you should see a textual log appear in the error console, copy and paste it here.

Then try again reproducing the issue.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Sounds like those are bookmarks. To turn that off, go to options, then privacy, and set the address bar to suggest nothing.

Comment 4

[Ed Avis]

@Tyler Downer: you are quite right, the suggestions made are bookmarked sites.  So this is not a bug, just a slightly surprising behaviour.  Mea culpa.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Sounds like those are bookmarks. To turn that off, go to options, then privacy,
> and set the address bar to suggest nothing.

Or maybe better suggest "history" if just bookmarks are unwanted :)