393574 - should descriptions, string annotations be searched when we url bar autocomplete?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

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should descriptions, string annotations, and tag names be searched when we url bar autocomplete?

looking for feed back from the UI gurus.  if this should become three bugs, let me know.

note, we have plans to highlight the matching text in the url bar results (bug #387717), but with descriptions, text annotations, tag names, etc, the matching text would not be visible.

Comment 1

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

I think it is important that the user understands why their search results match against the search that they entered.  So if we decide we want to match against descriptions or text annotations, we need to find a way of showing that.

This bug is related to bug #393508

Comment 2

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updating summary, tag searching was implemented.

Comment 3

[AndrewM]

Should this be added to the meta bug 405745 '[meta] improve url bar
autocomplete results'?

Comment 4

[Jean-Philippe Fleury]

Is the bug 406246 a duplicate of this current bug?

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

we are searching tags already, as comment 2 states. I don't think we should be searching more than what we do today cause the risk to add too many unrelated items in that small space is high, then we could lose value.
Moreover description and annotations are something that the user may have never seen for a page, so the likely he might remember a match against those is very low.
Finally add-ons or pages could set those to cheat the system.
I don't think the gain is worth the development time here.