86615 - global history is not updated over night

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: History: Global, defect)

Description

[rkuhn]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-4GB i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1)
Gecko/20010607
BuildID:    2001060713

When mozilla is open over night the global history does not reflect the aging of
the entries correctly. If e.g. there were no entries in '2 days ago' the new
entries in there are not accessible until a restart of mozilla

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create new global history
2. surf some pages
3. wait till next day

Actual Results:  Yesterday is not accessible

Expected Results:  Yesterday should contain the pages of the last day

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

related: bug 55293

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

actually, you shouldn't need to restart - you should just be able to collapse
and re-expand the "Yesterday" or "Today" folders, and the search is done in real
time... can someone confirm the behavior is actually as described?

(by the way, the related bug has to do with pages /expiring/, not displaying in
the UI)

Comment 3

[James Paige]

I just tried this out with build 2001061823 on Windows 95.

I first took a look at the contents of my history in the sidebar. Both today and
yesterday looked correct.

I then set my system time to 11:58 PM, and amused myself elsewhere for two minutes.

After my computer thought that midnight had passed, I looked at my sidebar
again, expanded Today, and saw that it was empty, expanded yesterday, and saw
the things which had previously been in today

So far, so good.

I then proceeded to browse to a couple of sites that I was certain I had not
visited at all recently, http://luddite.com and http://snes9x.com

I then checked my today and yesterday history thingies in the sidebar. today was
still empty, and both http://luddite.com and http://snes9x.com had been added to
the yesterday category

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

Can I ask how you amused yourself for those two minutes?

Comment 5

[James Paige]

um... well, I spun around on my spinny office chair a couple times, went to get
a drink of water from the cooler down the hall, and then came back and stared at
my telephone for a bit, hoping it would ring. It didnt.

If I knew all that was so important for reproducing the bug, I would have
mentioned it in the first place :)

Comment 6

[Alec Flett]

were the dates for the sites you visited current? I'm curious if we're
miscalculating the visit date.

Comment 7

[James Paige]

ooh! very good point! If Mozilla is using the dates that the servers sent me in
their headers, then the behavior I observed was exactly correct... but if
Mozilla is supposed to be using my computer's system date then it was wrong.

Ill try the same test again, next time I am actually using Mozilla when
real-life midnight rolls around and the pages I pull will actually be giving me
post-midnight dates, but I dont know when that will be, as I am terribly sleepy
at the moment 

Comment 8

[Alec Flett]

actually, that wasn't quite what I was thinking :)
global history doesn't have access to the date sent by the server - it just uses
the "current" time - but what we basically do is keep a timestamp that we update
every so often (every few seconds) - but maybe that update is broken or something.

Comment 9

[Mike Young]

in keeping with the movement to "keep the unconfirms under control" I'd like to
suggest that we confirm this bug as no one is really objecting and its falling
off the radar just floating in the unconfirmed void. :-)

Comment 10

[Claudius Gayle]

Hmmm, I had a history with many entries for 'today' and none for 'yesterday'.
I let it sit open over night and then took a look at it the next day. 'Today'
would not update even after I expanded and collapsed the twisty - there was no
twisty for 'yesterday'. Only after I closed the Global History window did things
properly update.

So the bug is that the UI is not updating(because evidently the realtime search
isn't triggered) _even_ after you collapse/expand the twisty. I still think it's
a bug even if it did work after clicking the twisty.
confirming

Comment 11

[Alec Flett]

argh.. take two at reassigning history bugs to new owner

Comment 12

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 158061 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Kiril Jovchev]

Hi,
I can confirm this bug also on Mozila 1.3b Gecko/20030210 on Windows XP sp1. One
day after soem surfing I had left my browser open, on next morrning I just
closed accidentaly the browser and when I opened it again there were no any of
thouse links what I had visited last evening. All links what I have seen before,
probably during the day were there, but those from last start of mozilla were gone.