smart bar sometimes doesn't search and match

Bug #353625 reported by Loell Anthony Erecre
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firefox (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Expired
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox

in firefox 3.0.8 Jaunty beta,

there are times that the smart bar doesn't match a previuosly visited url.

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Kristoffer Lundén (kristoffer-lunden) wrote :

If you mean that the completion sometimes stops working completely, then yes, I see that too, on 3.5 as well. Need to restart browser to make it work again.

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Loell Anthony Erecre (loell) wrote :

changing the status to confirmed, i also asked in ubuntuforums, and they are also seeing this behavior too.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

I would wait on marking confirmed until someone can confirm it on this bug report. You may not be seeing the same cause as the people in other places.

affects: firefox (Ubuntu) → firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Dan Andreșan (danyer) wrote :

I confirm.
Ubuntu Jaunty fully updated, still see the problem like once/twice per week.

I start typing into the location bar and no autocompletion of sites happens (although it's a popular site I visit).
It is not related with one adress: once it decides not to work, it will not work consistently, I need to restart Firefox to make it work again.

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Loell Anthony Erecre (loell) wrote :

same behavior has been described.
adding a forum link, to add more weight to the confirmation.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1113811

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Korcia (jmgmontes) wrote :

Well, I just found out a way for fixing the problem (temporarily) without closing and restarting firefox. I click on the favicon on the left of the smart bar, then you will get a small notification window saying something like: "This web site does not supply identity information". You click again the favicon, without doing anything else, and the smart bar is working again. At least it works for me.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

No more fixes for Firefox 2.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Can anyone confirm this in Firefox 3.0.10? Does it occur with a new profile? You don't have to delete your old profile to test.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs?action=show&redirect=DebuggingFirefox#Try with a new profile

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Wizzu (wizzu) wrote :

I'm currently using 3.0.14 and I'm seeing it here. (3.0.14+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1)

Testing with a new profile is really hard, because the problem seems to be intermittent and not easily reproducible. Closing the browser and starting again fixes the issue, so switching to a new profile would fix it too. And browsing all the time with a new profile is not that convenient... (I do realise that the same problem makes it hard to solve the issue too.)

Somewhere else on the net someone made a guess that using compiz might be an issue -- I see the problem on two different Ubuntu installs, one has compiz but the other does not.

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Torsten Martinsen (bullestock) wrote :

I used to see this with Firefox 3.0. Recently I (for other reasons) deleted my profile and created a new one. The problem still occurred. And it still occurs after upgrading to 3.5.4. I will try the workaround in comment #6 next time it happens.

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Torsten Martinsen (bullestock) wrote :

I can confirm that the workaround in comment #6 also works in Firefox 3.5.4.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Feanor's Curse (suepke) wrote :

Still happening pretty often for me with Firefox 3.6.13 on ubuntu 11.04 (x86)

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