555911 - Recent history list doesnt contain all visited pages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Chwiej Pawel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3pre)  Gecko20100329 Namoroka/3.6.3pre Fennec/1.1a2pre

Maemo 5
fennec_1.1~a2~20100329010617_armel.deb


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Fennec
2. Go to http://www.onet.pl
3. Go to http://www.wp.pl
4. Go to http://www.skapiec.pl
5. Tap on URL field

Actual Results:  
Most of the time(8/10 I would say) only two first pages are shown on recent history list


Expected Results:  
All three visited webpages are available on recent history list

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

The default history list (the items that appear when tapping on the URLbar) are pulled from a cache - not directly from the sqlite DB. We do this to speed up the display of the history list. The down side is that it takes a few seconds for the cache to refresh. We don't constantly refresh the cache, for performance reasons.

If you wait a few seconds between steps 4 and 5, do all the pages appear?

Comment 2

[Chwiej Pawel]

(In reply to comment #1)
> If you wait a few seconds between steps 4 and 5, do all the pages appear?

No, I can see it even if I wait 20-30 seconds before moving to the next site. If this issue is visible, recent history list seems to be like 'one step' behind.

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to comment #2)

> If this issue is visible, recent history list seems to be like 'one step'
> behind.

Yes, exactly. In bug 547993 we added a bookmark listener to update the cache on bookmark changes. We would need a history listener to update the cache on history changes.

We decided against this initially because history is very active and you increase the cache activity, which is good and bad. We decided that keeping the recent history list "one step behind" isn't too bad - considering how few times one single visit would affect the recent history anyway.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component