987125 - Should have a test that switch-to-tab entries for private tabs never appear in the location bar's autocomplete in public windows and vice versa

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Bug 816527 made it so that switching between private and public tabs from the URL bar wouldn't work. The test it added tests that hitting 'enter' on the custom URL that we use for location bar autocomplete entries of the 'switch to tab' kind doesn't work, but this relies on the underlying switchToTabHavingURI API in browser.js.

It doesn't test if the entries appear in the autocomplete list at all. If they did, they wouldn't work - but that would be extremely poor UX (because there'd be "no-op" entries in the list).

We should either change this test or write another test that verifies that these entries don't appear.

Comment 1

[(no longer active)]

I think we should add a new test for that.  But I don't know how that test would work.

Comment 2

[bugzilla]

Should have a test that switch-to-tab entries for private tabs never appear in the location bar's autocomplete of NEW private windows too!