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(In reply to Teon Brooks [:teon] from comment #4)
> wrt 1. could you elaborate more on the switch from openViewOnFocus, is this when a user hovers over, clicks on the urlbar? is this part of the megabar redesign? 

openViewOnFocus is a separate pref we introduced for the TopSites experiment, it is currently not enabled in the redesign, it's only enabled in the experiment, because we were waiting for experiment results to make a call about it.
When enabled, if the urlbar is NOT focused and the user focuses it, by clicking or with the keyboard shortcut, we open the results pane.
It registers "typed" or "topsites" depending on the string in the urlbar, but we are debating about making it only open an empty string (so it would only register "topsites").

> wrt 2. when the user abandons the search, is the content preserved? if so, is it labeled as "return" if add to it? what happens if they delete the content then continue?

First, "retained results" is part of the redesign and enabled with it. So it's only enabled in Nightly atm.
We keep **the last** search results cached, if the user abandons a search, and then returns to it, we reopen the results pane with the cached results. If there are no cached results for the string in the urlbar, we do nothing.
For example if the user is typing something, switches to another tab or another window, and comes back, this kicks-in.

(In reply to Teon Brooks [:teon] from comment #4)
> wrt 1. could you elaborate more on the switch from openViewOnFocus, is this when a user hovers over, clicks on the urlbar? is this part of the megabar redesign? 

openViewOnFocus is a separate pref we introduced for the TopSites experiment, it is currently not enabled in the redesign, it's only enabled in the experiment, because we were waiting for experiment results to make a call about it.
When enabled, if the urlbar is NOT focused and the user focuses it, by clicking or with the keyboard shortcut, we open the results pane.
It registers "typed" or "topsites" depending on the string in the urlbar, but we are debating about making it only open when it would show top sites (so it would only register "topsites").

> wrt 2. when the user abandons the search, is the content preserved? if so, is it labeled as "return" if add to it? what happens if they delete the content then continue?

First, "retained results" is part of the redesign and enabled with it. So it's only enabled in Nightly atm.
We keep **the last** search results cached, if the user abandons a search, and then returns to it, we reopen the results pane with the cached results. If there are no cached results for the string in the urlbar, we do nothing.
For example if the user is typing something, switches to another tab or another window, and comes back, this kicks-in.