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I think the origiginal concer was not urlbar panel covering ime, but ime covering urlbar panel and generating a potentially confusing and noisy ui situation.
Even if we don't close the panel, we'd still need composition events to avoid searching for partial strings.
And we already have an option to not close the panel the user can enable (we'll move it from Labs to Search) that works well with certain IME (korean, vietnamese underlined, ...).

So, I think this request means:
1. make the option default to true
2. during composition don't start searches, so results are frozen to the previous ones

That would still leave us with a potentially confusing state with ime popup on top of urlbar panel containing outdated results.

I think the original concern was not urlbar panel covering ime, but ime covering urlbar panel and generating a potentially confusing and noisy ui situation.
Even if we don't close the panel, we'd still need composition events to avoid searching for partial strings.
And we already have an option to not close the panel the user can enable (we'll move it from Labs to Search) that works well with certain IME (korean, vietnamese underlined, ...).

So, I think this request means:
1. make the option default to true
2. during composition don't start searches, so results are frozen to the previous ones

That would still leave us with a potentially confusing state with ime popup on top of urlbar panel containing outdated results.