657338 - Awesomebar should search open tabs first.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Ian Stirling.]

Awesomebar can at times be slow, especially with lots of history.
If I search for a phrase in the awesomebar, it can come up with suggestions, before mentioning that there is an open tab that matches.

Open tabs should be searched first - rather than popping up somewhat randomly in the list during the period of a several second search.

Comment 1

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Maybe not a duplicate, but at least it affects how bug 546254 may be implemented.

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

We do actually search it first, FWIW.

Comment 3

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

I'm constantly getting results that don't include open tabs. I think I'm seeing what Ian is.

Comment 5

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

I understand that for devs this can be frustrating if you have a bunch of bug tabs open, but if you get a bunch of open tabs you can keep typing til you find the one you want.

In my case I don't realize I already have tabs open. I currently have 2 facebook tabs open but it only tells me about 1 of them, which is an improvement. I've seen it not tell me about any. This  happens frequently with sites I go to a lot of pages on, google, youtube etc. I know I can add % but that's only if I already know I have the tab open.

IMO the point of this feature is to help you not open duplicate tabs so it should definitely tell you when you have open tabs that match your search. Not sure what the right balance is. Maybe a pref for people like devs? Or a more discoverable switch to exclude open tabs?

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

If a search is taking multiple seconds, we should look into that, rather than wallpapering the problem. Feel free to reopen if this still is a problem.