Closed Bug 1647886 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

[meta] Change Urlbar one-offs to act as filters rather than performing a search immediately

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(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P3)

enhancement

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RESOLVED FIXED
83 Branch

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(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

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(Keywords: meta)

We want to modify Urlbar one-offs so they filter Urlbar results to a particular engine and allow the user to continue typing, instead of searching immediately.

Depends on: 1647885
Depends on: 1647887
Depends on: 1647888
No longer depends on: 1647888
Depends on: 1647896
Depends on: 1647897
Depends on: 1647917
Type: task → enhancement
Severity: -- → S3
Priority: -- → P3
Depends on: 1654439
Depends on: 1654680
Depends on: 1654801
Depends on: 1655473
Depends on: 1655485
Depends on: 1655486
Depends on: 1657212
Depends on: 1657633

Will it be possible to revert/configure this though settings UI in easy way that will also work in the future updates?

I think that how on-off searches should behave should be configurable because not all users would use them (or want to use them) the same:

  1. Some users already know what they are searchig for so they don't need specific suggestions for specific engine. With old way, they just need to type query and click on one-off icon. With new way, they need to type query, click one-off icon and again click on their query or press enter, so search actually triggers. This means one more click which can be inconvenient.
  2. But some other users may not know what exactly they are searching for. For them, new change might be better.
Depends on: 1661431
Depends on: 1662477
Depends on: 1664760
Depends on: 1665908
Depends on: 1667766
Depends on: 1668012
Depends on: 1668212
Priority: P3 → --
Depends on: 1668982
Severity: S3 → N/A
Priority: -- → P3
Depends on: 1671668

(In reply to Filip Š from comment #1)

Will it be possible to revert/configure this though settings UI in easy way that will also work in the future updates?

I think that how on-off searches should behave should be configurable because not all users would use them (or want to use them) the same:

  1. Some users already know what they are searchig for so they don't need specific suggestions for specific engine. With old way, they just need to type query and click on one-off icon. With new way, they need to type query, click one-off icon and again click on their query or press enter, so search actually triggers. This means one more click which can be inconvenient.
  2. But some other users may not know what exactly they are searching for. For them, new change might be better.

I created bug 1671815 for this. Feel free to repeat your comment over there!

All the dependencies are resolved, closing this.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → 83 Branch
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