Closed Bug 1205528 Opened 9 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Urlbar suggests bookmarked domains even when deactivated

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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P5)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
43 Branch
Type:
defect

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Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1502821

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(Reporter: antonio_mario_novo, Unassigned)

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(Whiteboard: [unifiedcomplete][fxsearch])

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (masking-agent; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0 Build ID: 20150916030203 Steps to reproduce: 1) Create a new/empty profile; 2) Disable the suggestion/autocomplete of bookmarked pages on the urlbar, either in the options interface or via adding user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmark", false); to the prefs.js profile config file; 3) Add a new bookmark to Firefox; 4) Start typing the new bookmark URL on the urlbar; Actual results: Firefox still suggests and autocompletes the bookmarked domain. Note: the full URL is not suggested/auto-completed, only the bookmarked URL domain. Expected results: The domain of the bookmarked URLS should bot be presented as suggestion and/or be auto-completed. Please do note that the bookmarked domain was never visited before said procedure, see attached screenshot, this can also be replicated after cleaning the history of a profile.
*should not be presented auto-correct seems to also be buggy :3
Component: Untriaged → Location Bar
yes, we have a query that ensures we only autofill bookmarked entries when history is disabled, but we don't have a query that does the opposite. I think the reasoning was that if you have something bookmarked, it's very likely you'll visit it, so the cases where this bug can happen are rare. I think to introduce this special case, we first need to simplify the code by removing the autoFill-untyped case, otherwise the code may become too complex.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: [unifiedcomplete][fxsearch]
Rank: 35
Severity: normal → minor
Depends on: 1239708
Priority: P3 → P5

Please, raise a priority on this issue. This is a serious privacy concern. The problem is that whenever I show my screen to other people (e.g. to my family or when I'm giving a presentation), the domains of bookmarked URLs will appear when I type anything in the address bar.

This bug means that to me bookmarks are unusable for anything other than my public activity that I'm 100% comfortable showing to others.

The fact that there is an option to turn off suggestions from bookmarks makes this worse because the option LIES. I can have a false sense of safety and then have someone find out about a domain I bookmarked.

This also leads to unintended consequences due to stuff people try to solve this issue. I had to spend time searching the web, try solutions that didn't work, reinstall Firefox, remove all my bookmarks and all my history before I could reach the conclusion that there must be a bug and search your bugzilla. The amount of time I lost by doing all this and the time I'll loose in the future trying to search for stuff that I otherwise would have in my bookmarks is significant.

I think you want to follow bug 1502821, rather than this one. And I'll dupe this there to avoid confusion.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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