If you open the new huge awesomebar, there are 2 serious usability problems:

1. The total length of displayed links is much smaller. If I'm looking for a specific site by URL, this is now almost impossible. I get the site title and if I'm lucky part of the domain.

Flipping the awesomebar pref back clearly shows that the new awesomebar is much smaller (for some reason?)

2. The first problem is even worse because there is large padding on both ends, and the links actually fade out into the padding (instead of the border). So maybe 50% of the already-smaller width ends up being used.

(In reply to Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp] from comment #0)

1. The total length of displayed links is much smaller. If I'm looking for a specific site by URL, this is now almost impossible. I get the site title and if I'm lucky part of the domain.

The text has always been limited to the input field size. It surely looks smaller because it doesn't extend to the full window, but is it?
There was probably an edge case where we left the text escape on the right side, maybe for tiny windows. Could you please post a screenshot with the pref flipped?

The text has always been limited to the input field size.

No? It used to fill the entire width of the browser window.

As you can see, sites with large names don't have an URL visible at all any more.

No? It used to fill the entire width of the browser window.

I mean both of us literally had a discussion about that before: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1292351

Yeah, this is what I meant, the fact urls escaped on the right side was happening when the urlbar was smaller than a certain size, in the default toolbar config I can't reproduce it.

We could tweak the space dedicated to title/url, not sure it would help a lot in a so narrow window though, especially because the search bar takes so much space.
I'll just needinfo Verdi to brainstorm about this.

Yeah, this is what I meant, the fact urls escaped on the right side was happening when the urlbar was smaller than a certain size, in the default toolbar config I can't reproduce it.

I tried maximizing my window and expanding the urlbar - it's always full width.
Tried removing the search box (aka omnibar) - it's always full width.

So I can't confirm the above.

I have Release here with a clean default toolbar, and the urls are cut on the right exactly where the input field ends. Customizing the toolbar breaks that and they flow to the right, like in your screenshot. I honestly don't remember if it was on purpose or not.

in the default toolbar config I can't reproduce it.

Marco, I just tried with a clean profile and the awesomebar is also full width no matter how wide I make the window. So I don't understand why you say it was like this before?

Ah, now I remember, we wanted the results to not look ugly (lots of space on the right, smaller on the left) so we applied the same padding both sides. Try adding more icons or the flexible spacers on the left of it and you'll see.
It is basically "centering" results in the large panel.

Ah, I see what you mean, the URLs themselves are still cut off instead of using the available space even if the awesomebar itself fills the window.

I would say that linking the size of the displayed title+URLs to the size of the URL input field makes no sense, because what is displayed has the title of the site prepended. So there is no link between these two things.

I personally wouldn't even left-align, but we had that discussion before, too.

A number of improvements have landed in the bugs blocking this one and we don't have plans for further changes at this time.