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Search results in Awesome Bar do not show tags next to bookmarks anymore, how to re-enable it again?

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For many years FF had a great feature: start typing in address bar (awesome bar now) and it will search within bookmarks, and in a drop-down list of results next to each bookmark there was list of tags, all the tags for each bookmark. It's very convenient and even was pitched as an advance FF feature.

Some time ago it stopped working (I think around version 51). I still get a list of bookmarks and if I typed a particular tag it will be searched by, and that one tag will be shown and highlighted, but all other tags are not shown any more.

Is there a way to re-enable the original behavior?

I tried disabling all extensions, creating a fresh user profile and even with the all new and fresh FF I can't get to display those tags.

I attached the image of how it used to look like when it was useful

please help, thank you

For many years FF had a great feature: start typing in address bar (awesome bar now) and it will search within bookmarks, and in a drop-down list of results next to each bookmark there was list of tags, all the tags for each bookmark. It's very convenient and even was pitched as an advance FF feature. Some time ago it stopped working (I think around version 51). I still get a list of bookmarks and if I typed a particular tag it will be searched by, and that one tag will be shown and highlighted, but all other tags are not shown any more. Is there a way to re-enable the original behavior? I tried disabling all extensions, creating a fresh user profile and even with the all new and fresh FF I can't get to display those tags. I attached the image of how it used to look like when it was useful please help, thank you
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Hi, type about:preferences#privacy in the URL bar and press enter. Scroll down until you see Address Bar, check the box that says Bookmarks. Then Restart Firefox. The URL bar should now recommend bookmarks again like before. I have attached a screenshot to show you where the Bookmarks Checkbox is.

If this solved your problem, please mark as solution.

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Hi Mkll, it does not solve the issue. It does suggest bookmarks, but does not show ALL the tags for given bookmark next to each bookmark. It only shows tags that I searched for.

It used to show all the tags and the once I searched in bold.

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What is your homepage set to? It could be related to what you have set for your homepage.

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WestEnd said

What is your homepage set to? It could be related to what you have set for your homepage.

it's set to a page on my website, just a simple static page. I just tried using firefox default homepage and it did not make a difference.

Also, I tried to resolve this issue myself by resetting profile, starting with new profile and even experimented with fresh install on a new computer. This feature by default does not work as used to. However I hope that there is a setting somewhere that can affect it. or maybe it's a bug and it can be fixed.

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I see this change. Firefox 48 definitely showed the tags regardless of whether they matched your text in the address bar, but Firefox 58 only shows them if there is a match.

When I peer into the content of the autocomplete drop-down, the tags section is blank when there is no match, so it's not merely a matter of unhiding the tags, they are not populated to the drop-down at all. So I can't fix it with a custom style rule.

But here's something curious. I have a bookmark titled

Comics - Dilbert

that has the tag Funny.

In the drop-down, the item has Funny embedded in two places in the top-level tag even thought this is not displayed:

<richlistitem class="autocomplete-richlistitem" dir="ltr" ac-image="page-icon:http://www.dilbert.com/" ac-value="http://www.dilbert.com/" ac-label="http://www.dilbert.com/" ac-comment="Comics - Dilbert – Funny" ac-text="dilbert" ... url="http://www.dilbert.com/" image="page-icon:http://www.dilbert.com/" title="Comics - Dilbert – Funny" text="dilbert" displayurl="http://www.dilbert.com/"/>

I'm not sure why that is there and not made visible. ??

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jscher2000 said

I see this change. Firefox 48 definitely showed the tags regardless of whether they matched your text in the address bar, but Firefox 58 only shows them if there is a match.

Is there a way to revert the change in the new Firefox? I do not understand why it was changed, I'd even say broken. The way it used to work was very convenient and even older Firefox promo pages used to advertise it as a cool feature.

Where should I post a request so it can be addressed somehow?

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thedimka said

Where should I post a request so it can be addressed somehow?

Please file a bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi (and provide here a bug number to let us follow it).

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