761759 - Inline autocomplete suggests unexpected URL

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[bug.zilla]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0
Build ID: 20120601045813

Steps to reproduce:

Typed in "f" in the awesomebar


Actual results:

None of the entries suggested are anywhere need my most visited sites. For example the first entry is http://www.firefoxwithbing.com/ even though that's an site I only visited once many months ago.


Expected results:

The ordering of the suggested URLs should reflect the popularity of sites visited. This is the case in the current stable (v 13), where the awesomebar works really works.

Not sure if this is expected behaviour, but at the moment it doesn't seem to work as none of the sites suggested are useful. Only way to solve it is to set browser.urlbar.autoFill to false.

Possibly relates to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720266

Comment 1

[LummoxJR]

This is actually a regression as of Firefox 14, which I'm seeing now that I've updated on the beta channel. Setting brower.urlbar.autoFill to false does not fix it in Firefox 14; I'm not sure if the results differ in a newer version.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

(In reply to bug.zilla from comment #0)
> Not sure if this is expected behaviour, but at the moment it doesn't seem to
> work as none of the sites suggested are useful. Only way to solve it is to
> set browser.urlbar.autoFill to false.

Sorry, but I don't see a relation, this pref only controls the autofilled value in the inputfield, doesn't have any effect on results in the autocomplete popup.

May you please try safe mode to exclude bogus add-ons? http://support.mozilla.org/kb/safe+mode

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

Also, do you have a places.sqlite.corrupt file in your profile folder?
Do you use Sync and have an Adroid device with Firefox and Sync setup to sync to your desktop computer?

Comment 4

[LummoxJR]

I don't, at least. I don't sync with my android device and I don't have a places.sqlite.corrupt file. For me, the awesomebar is simply ignoring the frequency of visits and instead is only moving URLs to the top now as I visit them. URLs I've been to before the update to Firefox 14 don't come up at the top of the results where they used to before.

Comment 5

[bug.zilla]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #2)
> (In reply to bug.zilla from comment #0104)
> > Not sure if this is expected behaviour, but at the moment it doesn't seem to
> > work as none of the sites suggested are useful. Only way to solve it is to
> > set browser.urlbar.autoFill to false.
> 
> Sorry, but I don't see a relation, this pref only controls the autofilled
> value in the inputfield, doesn't have any effect on results in the
> autocomplete popup.
> 
> May you please try safe mode to exclude bogus add-ons?
> http://support.mozilla.org/kb/safe+mode105

Sorry, what I did not mean that the browser.urlbar.autoFill solves the issue.
What I meant to say is that it turns it off which means I only have the normal results with no inline autocomplete.

And yes, tried Safe Mode.
I do not have places.sqlite.corrupt and I do not sync.

Hope this helps.

Comment 6

[bug.zilla]

Having tested used this feature with the latest release version, I think the issue is now resolved.