A single YouTube clip doesn't show up in my browsing history even if I've just been there
The title of the clip is "Patrick Kane scores own goal in empty-net". Case-sensitive, hyphen in original.
I come back to this every now and again, and when I do, I usually see if it's still in my browsing history by typing in a few distinct words ('cuz I'm lazy). If it shows up, I'm good to go.
However, no matter how many times I visit this one, nor how recently I did so last time, I simply cannot get it to appear in my dropdown URL browsing history as a suggestion. As a test, I even have it open in a tab right now, and if I open another tab and start typing in any part of the phrase, it still will not show up.
I've got the Session Manager plugin, which not only saves browsing sessions but also allows me to recover any of the several last tabs I closed. Here is the YouTube link, anyone wanna take a shot at this and see if they're having the same problem?
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No problems here. If I have a tab open then typing 'patr' or '7v6' is sufficient to see a switch to tab suggestion.
Do you have all suggestions for the location/address bar drop-down list enabled?
You can set what suggestions show when you enter an URL in the location/address bar bar via Options/Preferences -> Privacy
- Location Bar: When using the location bar, suggest:
History
Bookmarks
Open tabs
You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database (bookmarks and history) in the Firefox profile folder.
See also:
Okay, I've actually solved it myself - good thing you put "7v6" there, because I put that in and the link came up. It turns out I actually bookmarked this under a different name - I noticed something funny about it so I named it after what I saw, though historically I've been able to type in the original name of the page and still bring it up even with the name I bookmarked it under. I am going to assume this is a feature that was removed from previous versions of Firefox, and while that does irk me a little bit, that's a whole other discussion. For now, I've renamed the link to its original name and moved my snarky little comment for it to the description of the bookmark. It works now.
Also, I had forgotten that I'd disabled open tab suggestions when typing a URL in another tab.
Thank you for your help!
Modified by PriestessMKFan
If that page was in the history under the original name then it should have come up when history item are included in the location bar suggestions. If there is only a bookmark with the modified name then things are different of course. Good to hear that you found it as a bookmark, but under a different name.