725694 - New Tab Page Doesn't Update Awesome Bar Result Frequencies

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Paul [pwd]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0a1) Gecko/20120209 Firefox/13.0a1
Build ID: 20120209031242

Steps to reproduce:

If you click a result in the awesome bar, it's frequency is updated, however if you click the same result in the New Tab page, the frequency isn't updated. This has a knock-on affect on browsing and work-flow that has been cultivated over a period of time using the awesomebar.

Comment 1

[Paul [pwd]]

Confirmed via one of the nightly threads on Mozillazine.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

one thing that changes here is that the awesomebar gives points for choosing a result, that is the adaptive part of it. Surely we may do something similar in newtab, though adaptive is done based on the text you type before selecting a result, so it couldn't work the same. See http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/autocomplete/nsAutoCompleteController.cpp#1186
Another thing that may differ could be the transition, off hand I don't remember if we consider those choices typed, even if I think not.

Comment 3

[Raymond Lee [:raymondlee]]

Attachment: print_out_frecency

Please see the frecency for the same url. I did them in the listed order.  
2075 Type url in url bar
2225 Click on the bookmark on toolbar
4300 Type part of url and click on an item in awesomebar
4475 Click on the thumbnail in new tab page.

Comment 4

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

So, Marco, what does this tell us? I'd rather not dive into the frecency code too much for now. :)

Comment 5

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Mass-move to Firefox::New Tab Page.

Filter on new-tab-page-component.

Comment 6

[Jessilyn Davis]

Hello!
This bug has been closed due to inactivity and/or the potential for this bug to no longer be an issue with the new Discovery Stream-powered New Tab experience.
Please help us triage by reopening if this issue still persists and should be addressed.
Thanks!