Found in

• Fx115.0a1

Affected versions

• Fx 115.0a1

Affected platforms

• Windows 10
• macOS
• Ubuntu 20

Preconditions
browser.urlbar.addons.featureGate set to true
browser.urlbar.suggest.addons set to true
browser.urlbar.quicksuggest.enabled set to true
browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.nonsponsored set to true
browser.urlbar.quicksuggest.dataCollection.enabled set to true
browser.urlbar.merino.enabled set to true
browser.urlbar.merino.providers set to amo
browser.urlbar.bestMatch.enabled set to true

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch Firefox.
2. In the URL bar, type 'tts' or 'TTS'.

Expected result

• Firefox add-on suggestion for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Reader add-on.

Actual result

• No add-on suggestion is displayed.

Regression range

• This is not a regression.

Additional notes

• According to add-on document, 'tts' should be one of the keywords for Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Reader add-on suggestion.

:cbaica, if you think that's a regression, could you try to find a regression range using for example mozregression?

I'm not able to reproduce this. The addon suggestion is shown both from Merino (browser.urlbar.quicksuggest.dataCollection.enabled = true) and remote settings (browser.urlbar.quicksuggest.dataCollection.enabled = false). Cristian, could you try again please?

It's possible you saw two things:

• Merino might have been down or too slow when you tested. In that case, Firefox should have shown the suggestion from remote settings, but see the next point.
• It takes ~30 seconds for a new profile to sync data from remote settings. So if you didn't see the suggestion from remote settings, you should be able to trigger it after 30-60 seconds. To help debug this case, set browser.urlbar.loglevel to Debug and look for a message in the console: "QuickSuggestRemoteSettings :: Syncing feature: AddonSuggestions". After that, you should be able to trigger the suggestion from remote settings.

Adding remote settings to the config(we initially tested only using merino) did the trick. Now tts/TTS correctly triggers the add-on suggestion for Read Aloud.

Closing this as WFM.