Bug#754508: iceweasel: tagged bookmark search no longer works in urlbar

[Ian Zimmerman]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 24.6.0esr-1~deb7u1
Severity: normal

Once upon a time, but not so long ago, when i typed, for example,
"+ Frisco" in the URL bar, the drop-down menu would open with exactly
those locations that I had bookmarked _and_ tagged with the "Frisco"
keyword.  Alas, this no longer works.  Instead, the list seems to be
populated by some sort of fuzzy scoring algorithm which includes _some_
bookmarks tagged with "Frisco" but also others whose URLs or titles just
match part of that string, such as "Annual Frisbee competition".

Since I rely on the tags as the primary organizational tool for my
bookmark library this is quite annoying.  The only thing that saved me
from posting a livid expletive-laden report is that the old behavior
seems to persist in the Bookmarks sidebar.  But I am not a fan of
sidebars, they're clunky to use and I am getting too old to remember
a dozen of new keybindings (one per sidebar).  So can I have the old tag
only + behavior back, please?

Notes:
1. The select widget "When using the location bar, suggest" is set to
"History and Bookmarks", and it always has been (back when this usage
worked).

2. The missing search configuration files reported by reportbug are
because I got rid of the search bar completely and I do all my external
searches explicitly with a keyword, for example "p iceweasel" to search
for a debian package, "d foobar" to search Duck Duck Go, and so on.

-- Package-specific info:

-- Plugins information
Name: IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.4 (1.4-3~deb7u2))
Location: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
Package: icedtea-6-plugin:amd64
Status: enabled

-- Addons package information
ii  icedtea-6-plug 1.4-3~deb7u2 amd64        web browser plugin based on OpenJ
ii  iceweasel      24.6.0esr-1~ amd64        Web browser based on Firefox

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.10.48.3 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils         4.3.2
ii  fontconfig          2.9.0-7.1
ii  libc6               2.13-38+deb7u3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libsqlite3-0        3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.2-5
ii  procps              1:3.3.3-3
ii  xulrunner-24.0      24.6.0esr-1~deb7u1

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  fonts-mathjax          2.2-1~bpo70+1
ii  fonts-oflb-asana-math  000.907-4
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.0-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u1
pn  mozplugger             <none>

Versions of packages xulrunner-24.0 depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-4
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.4.0-2
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.6-4
ii  libc6                     2.13-38+deb7u3
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.2-3
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.6.8-1+deb7u3
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.100.2-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.19-stable-3
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-7.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.10-2
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.2-4
ii  libmozjs24d               24.6.0esr-1~deb7u1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.30.0-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-5
ii  libvpx1                   1.1.0-1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.7-1+deb7u1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.3-1+deb7u1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages xulrunner-24.0 suggests:
ii  libcanberra0  0.28-6
pn  libgnomeui-0  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/common/debsearch.xml [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/common/debsearch.xml'
/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/common/duckduckgo.xml [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/common/duckduckgo.xml'
/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/amazondotcom.xml [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/amazondotcom.xml'
/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/bing.xml [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/bing.xml'
/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/eBay.xml [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/eBay.xml'
/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/google.xml [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/google.xml'
/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/twitter.xml [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/twitter.xml'
/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/wikipedia.xml [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/wikipedia.xml'
/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/yahoo.xml [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/locale/en-US/yahoo.xml'

-- no debconf information