1029848 - [UX] Search Query/Re-Query Callout

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tracking Graveyard :: Firefox Operations, defect)

Description

[Jennifer Morrow [:Boriss] (UX)]

1.  Goal:
* As a Firefox Desktop User I want to a visual reminder that Firefox knows I’m doing a search on a certain set of terms. 

2.  Acceptance Criteria (AC): 
* A search generated through a Firefox SAP creates a visually different search URL.
* A search generated outside of a Firefox SAP creates the same visually different search URL (Bonus).
* When a user focuses the URL input the search terms are highlighted and selected.

3.  Notes/Supporting Documentation: 
* Accessing the original URL is still a question for UX

Comment 1

[Marco Mucci [:MarcoM]]

Hi Boriss, can you provide a point value for this bug.

Comment 2

[Jennifer Morrow [:Boriss] (UX)]

Attachment: Mockup: Search query emphasized in URL

Currently in Firefox, the current domain is colored black in the URL bar, and the rest of the URL is in grey.  The reason for this emphasis is to make the relevant and readable part of the URL - the domain itself - pop out and be scannable by users.  While other parts of the URL may contain useful information, the domain is the most likely to be both 1. readable and 2. relevant, and thus is colored black.

However, there's another portion of the URL that can be guaranteed to be human-readable: the user's search string.  If a user searches for string "foo" on google.com, the resulting URL will contain at least two human-readable strings: the domain ("google.com") and the search query ("foo").  We should treat the search query identically to domains, making them black and scannable.

Comment 3

[Jennifer Morrow [:Boriss] (UX)]

Closing and filing followup engineering bug 1034382