hey folks, @mconley and I were chatting about the non-hand off mode (i.e. setting the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar to false pref) It makes sense to me to **not port it over to the Project Expo work**. Some rationale: - Not many people know about it - only real power users do (0.3% as y’all looked into it). There’s a chance that we annoy them but we need to make way for our New Tab search bar revamp work - There doesn’t seem to be any alternatives - Dao mentioned the team doesn’t have a way to port this over into Expo work and if they spend more cycles thinking about that, it’s going to delay our MCAB milestones - It sounds like this is just a preference that wasn’t meant to be left in, so this really doesn’t need to be possible to do especially when it’s pretty outdated in user experience and functionality let me know if there are any concerns with anything I said - happy to chat!
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hey folks, @mconley and I were chatting about the non-hand off mode (i.e. setting the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar to false pref) It makes sense to me to **not port it over to the Project Expo work**. Some rationale: - Not many people know about it - only real power users do (0.3% as y’all looked into it). There’s a chance that we annoy them but we need to make way for our New Tab search bar revamp work - There doesn’t seem to be any alternatives - Dao mentioned the team doesn’t have a way to port this over into Expo work and if they spend more cycles thinking about that, it’s going to delay our MCAB milestones - It sounds like this is just a preference that wasn’t meant to be left in, so this really doesn’t need to be possible to do especially when it’s pretty outdated in user experience and functionality let me know if there are any concerns with anything I said - as long as Jim Thomas is good to go, I'm happy to disable this. I'm not sure if there's any comms considering that this isn't strictly supposed to be user facing but if it's needed, let me know