Firefox 76 - Hackdot

Re:Firefox 76 by ttctciyf on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:42PM (#23084023)

In the last update (75) I had this bizarre problem that any amazon.co.uk links in my history weren't showing up in the "most used links" that the url bar is usually populated with if you click the down arrow (or in this update where the down arrow used to be)

I have a browser profile that is used almost exclusively for amazon content as well. The most visited links in that profile are amazon.co.uk and prime video but the only "most frequent" links it would show were on twitch and the occasional youtube page I visited to find trailers for amazon hosted videos.

When I went to about:config and toggled the four "update1" bools to false, amazon came back in my "most frequent" links.

Pretty strange, eh?

Edit: so I just installed 76, and switched the four "browser.urlbar.update1" bools that enable this back to "true", and again, any amazon.co.uk links are removed from the list I get when clicking on the empty urlbar.

I don't really care about the ugly styling, but since this is a navigation feature I use extensively, I'm turning the whole thing off again. Hope they fix (or document) this before the choice disappears!

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Re:Firefox 76 by ubercow13 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @05:20PM (#23085191)

Wow that's sad. Firefox's URL bar completion behaviour was one of its biggest advantages over Chrome. I wonder what the logic behind changing it is, and if it will lose that edge.

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Re:Firefox 76 by ttctciyf on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:13PM (#23086199)

Well, not strictly the completion - it's the behaviour when you click on the urlbar before typing anything.

Normally (in my setup) it shows a list of "most visited" urls.

The new behaviour is to still show this list but omit any amazon.co.uk (and maybe other, I have no idea) urls.

Completion works as expected as far as I know.

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Re:Firefox 76 by 43920 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:57AM (#23088019)

The new searchbar uses the top sites from the new tab page, which is a different algorithm from the one used for the old list (which I don't understand either). However, the one upside to this is that you can edit the top sites from the new tab page, and the edits will show up in the searchbar dropdown.

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Re:Firefox 76 by ttctciyf on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:26AM (#23088947)

Thanks for adding this information.

My "new tab page" is always set to just blank page and has been for years. I dislike all the fancy new page stuff and just set it to blank page on initial install.

The sites that show up in the urlbar dropdown are frequently visited ones, same as the ones that show up when I turn the "update1" stuff off, or the ones prior to ff 75, just not sites containing amazon.co.uk.

So while I don't doubt your information, it doesn't make sense to me as an explanation. Maybe not having any sites in a new tab page is some kind of corner case that exposes a bug. It's weird that amazon is specifically affected though!

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Re:Firefox 76 by ThePowerOfFuet on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @05:13PM (#23085132)

File a bug.

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Re:Firefox 76 by ttctciyf on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:14PM (#23086203)

I probably should, but I'd half expect to be told that this is intended behaviour due to some "clever" feature that knows better than I do how I want to use my browser.

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