Closed Bug 534530 Opened 15 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Places UI: Keep awesome bar open with last results if no new ones are found

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(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED INACTIVE

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(Reporter: deprecationmail, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; sv-SE; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091212 Minefield/3.7a1pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; sv-SE; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091212 Minefield/3.7a1pre I'll start off with a practical use for this change: The user is going to visit facebook.com. Using the power of the mighty awesome bar, he/she starts typing facebook. While typing, the user mistakenly types faceboook instead of facebook. "Luckily", there were no results matching faceboook, and the last matching search (which was "faceboo") remains open, despite the content of the URL field which is "faceboook". I've found myself mistyping sometimes, only to have go back and change the last letter I wrote just to get the page I was looking for to appear. I see no problems with this behavior, no currently available functions will be "compromised" and I can't think of any cases where the user would be bothered of this change. Opinions, suggestions? Reproducible: Always
Version: unspecified → Trunk
There could possibly be an indicator which says "No results", with a line inbetween that and the results.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Nice idea for user error prevention, adding to the list of Places UI bugs for us to target.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: Places UI (3.7): Keep awesome bar open with last results if no new ones are found → Places UI: Keep awesome bar open with last results if no new ones are found
Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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