1173087 - Add YouTube (and Facebook?) search buttons

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1205877

(Firefox for iOS :: Browser, defect)

Description

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Gemma's research points in this direction. Presumably we should make sure we can play the videos on YouTube…

Comment 1

[Paweł Kapica]

Attachment: Pull request

Comment 2

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

UX research shows that it's useful and we have a PR. Nominating as tracking to figure out where to go from here.

Comment 3

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

Before this goes anywhere, Maria will need to have a conversation with Joanne and Mike C. Please ensure this doesn't get put into code until agreement across all stakeholders have been made, including the 1l0n community folks for transparency (and agreement for which locales this should apply to). If this gets agreed, there should also be consistency across both Android and iOS.

Comment 4

[Emily Toop (:fluffyemily)]

This is good but it only works with US English and no other locales (testing it in UK English first time didn't make You Tube appear, I had to change region). We need to make a decision as to which locales we would want YouTube to appear for and migrate these changes to all necessary.

It raises an issue with our search term detector as when You Tube redirects from desktop to mobile, it also opens a new page (so desktop -> mobile -> new page with results), which means our method of reserve engineering the search URL to get the terms doesn't work as the initial URL is further back than the current `WKBackForwardItem`. A bug should be raised for that when this lands.

Comment 5

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

Before this goes further, business agreements need to be made to ensure alignment, visibility and policy. That will include deciding on which locales.

Mconnor - I'm NI'ing you for visibility, but likely a live conversation should be had with Maria to start with.

Comment 6

[Gemma Petrie (she/her) [:gemma]]

Relevant Research Reports:

Oct Monthly Mobile: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5HMP40Bk4q9UV9xR01lb3BwZFk

Nov Monthly Mobile: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5HMP40Bk4q9TGZRbUpOdjliN1E

Comment 7

[Maria Popova]

Mike C is drafting a proposal on search engines management. Includes: push additional engines per territories, which territories makes sense, how do we decide what to put in various places, Making consistent decisions across desktop and mobile.. To be circulated with product by 2/12.