Closed
Bug 1376911
Opened 7 years ago
Closed 5 years ago
Clicking history dropmarker on URLBar shows nothing for a fresh new user
Categories
(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
FIXED
Firefox 75
People
(Reporter: rexboy, Unassigned)
References
Details
(Whiteboard: [fxsearch])
Attachments
(2 files)
screenshot for a fresh user
STR:
1. open a fresh profile by executing firefox -P, clicking new profile.
2. click on the history dropmarker.
Expected:
Dropdown shows.
Actual:
Nothing happened.
see:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8881826
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Updated•7 years ago
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Summary: Clicking history dropmarker shows nothing for a fresh new user → Clicking history dropmarker on URLBar shows nothing for a fresh new user
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Updated•7 years ago
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Whiteboard: [fxsearch]
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Reporter | |
Comment 1•7 years ago
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Mak has proposed to change the default result for clicking history dropmarker.
Quoting from bug 1371542 comment 44:
(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] from comment #44)
> (In reply to :Gijs from comment #43)
> > Well, this is targeted for 57, so it seems to me we have time to just fix
> > the url bar instead of working around the issue only to then remove the code
> > again once we fix things 'properly'.
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> Note that there's no definition of "properly" yet.
> I could propose to make the default behavior returning anything, restrict to
> bookmarks if history is disabled, to history if bookmarks are disabled, and
> to openPage if both are disabled.
> The code is here:
> http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/
> fdb811340ac4e6b93703d72ee99217f3b1d250ac/toolkit/components/places/
> UnifiedComplete.js#484
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> But honestly I have no data to tell if the new setting would be better than
> the old one. For sure "typed" doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, so
> off-hand I'd be fine with the change.
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> > Note that I'm also not sure how our search deals work, but if this impacts
> > those because now we search for "Firefox" all the time, that's potentially
> > not a desired side-effect...
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> We don't actually "search" for it, we're just fetching suggestions, so I
> don't think it would be a problem.
Yet we have no data to decide if the change brings better experience, I'll collect some UX's inputs before moving on.
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Comment 2•7 years ago
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Using
BEHAVIOR_HISTORY + BEHAVIOR_BOOKMARK + BEHAVIOR_OPENPAGE + BEHAVIOR_TAG
for a fresh user
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Comment 3•7 years ago
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same above
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Updated•7 years ago
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Priority: -- → P2
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Updated•6 years ago
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Comment 4•5 years ago
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Fixed by megabar.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Depends on: urlbar-update-1
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 75
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