1041747 - Allow user to disable/enable display of Search Suggestions in Awesome Bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 959567

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Sevaan Franks [:sevaan]]

Attachment: Mockup showing show/hide Search Suggestions in Awesome Bar

A user should be able to turn on and off Search Suggestions in their Awesome Bar. By default, Search Suggestions should be off.

A user can toggle search suggestions in the Awesome Bar by clicking a "Show Search Suggestions" link.

Comment 1

[Samuel Bronson]

It should [also?] be possible to disable sending anything to search engines but still get suggestions from the Library.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

might depend on bug 951624 but doesn't block it.

Comment 3

[Andrei Vaida [:avaida]]

Assuming this is *not* a UX bug.

Comment 4

[Paul McAuley]

Is there also a keyboard shortcut to indicate you do not want to send data to the search engine?  (the opposite equivalent to "?")

"//" used to be a way to quickly type an address on all browsers,  but it seems that this is is no longer the case,  including on Firefox for Android where starting a query with "//" still sends the query to the search engine. It would be great if Mozilla could make this work again! (though perhaps an additional standardised single-key modifier would be good too)

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This seems to just be the same as bug 959567