Nightly 105.0a1 (2022-08-05) (64-Bit)
macOS 12.5

1.) Focus the Address Bar
2.) Take a look where the QuickActions

Actual: Notice that the QuickActions are placed in the second row, which looks not so nice.

Expected: They could be placed in the last row at the bottom

Thanks.

• Expected screenshot.

Thanks for the feedback, this and various options are being explored by UX as we are currently in the process of learning how users use this feature more. That means we wont be implementing this straight away but it may come up again so closing out for now.

Placing the buttons to the bottom would probably solve a few usability issues - these are big issues for me at least. With the current implementation it's no longer reliable what happens if you press the cursor down. For following reasons:

1. Sometimes there are quick action buttons and sometimes not. It depends on the input, of course. The problem is: There are some websites that I open very often every day. The usual workflow is: entering a few characters, press the cursor down, press enter. After entering the first character Firefox already makes history suggestions and maybe shows quick actions. But I am so fast with typing that when I notice that the first suggestion is the desired website and I prepare myself to press the cursor key a few times I maybe already typed the next character and suddenly there is no longer a quick action where one was before. While the circumstance if there are quick action buttons or not doesn't change the order of history suggestions it changes what is selected after I pressed the cursor key one or a few times.
2. As already noted I open some websites very often. This happens so fast and "automatically" without thinking, that sometimes I maybe only type one character, the other time I type two characters for the same website. And depending on my totally non-predictable behaviour I have to press the cursor key a different number of times.
3. I have neither steps to reproduce nor I am totally sure since it doesn't happen often enough but I have the feeling that there is sometimes a performance issue and the quick action buttons are not always shown immediately, resulting in a non-reliable behaviour when typing very fast.

Every time I used a quick action it was by accident so far.

Regardless of everything else it takes longer to open a website if there are quick actions because in these cases you have to press the cursor at least two times more for every website you want to select.

To be honest it's much more likely that I want to open a website than to change a setting or to manage an add-on or what the other quick actions are about. These are actions I do once every few months, if at all. So it should not get in the way of everyday things like opening websites I read every day.

Placing the quick actions to the bottom would solve all these issues, I guess. The downside would be that keyboard users would need to press the cursor much more often to use a quick action but this could be solved by a special key (like the space key for Spotlight on macOS, it's also kind of a command interface).

Dale, I needinfo'ed you only to make sure that you receives the feedback since this Bugzilla ticket is already closed. Feel free to just remove the request.

Thanks for the feedback

To explain some of the reasoning, the QuickActions are always the 2nd result, not the first. If you type in a website repeatedly then that should always come up as the first result. This is one of the reasons we hope to not interfere with peoples muscle memory too often as if you have a result that you visited so often it would become muscle memory, it would at some point quite quickly become the first result.

Another hope is that since quickactions are quite strongly filtered, the user needs to be typing something quite specific for them to keep appearing, the search terms they match are deterministic so it makes sense to keep them at a stable position which allows consistent fast access.

This is as mentioned in the early stages of gathering feedback and usage so your comments are very useful, we most definitely dont want to interfere with users regular browing habits.

Cheers

Thank you for your answer!

the QuickActions are always the 2nd result, not the first. If you type in a website repeatedly then that should always come up as the first result.

Unfortunately not (really). The first line is always a domain autocompletion that would bring me to the home page of a domain. But often I am not interested in the home pages. So I have to press the arrow down button to get the first history result. And with the quick action buttons the first history suggestion is below the quick action buttons.

Example:

I visit https://www.transfermarkt.de/hertha-bsc/news/verein/44 a few times per day. It's the first history suggestion for me if I enter "t". Without quick action buttons I have to press the arrow down key one time. With quick action buttons I have to press the arrow down key three times because there is the "manage themes" quick action as well as the "?" button with the SUMO link. So instead of three actions ("t", arrow down, Enter) I have to execute five actions ("t", arrow down, arrow down, arrow down, Enter) every time I want to open this page.

Another hope is that since quickactions are quite strongly filtered, the user needs to be typing something quite specific for them to keep appearing

At the moment the quick action buttons already appear after one (!) typed character. I don't think that one character is a "quite specific" input. Maybe they should require more typed characters to appear?