1194898 - Hide "search settings" bar in the awesomebar dropdown if the user has turned off search suggestions

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[aleth [:aleth]]

I just upgraded to Firefox 42 and now there is a "Change search settings" bar at the bottom of the awesomebar results dropdown.

Apart from being a waste of space, I don't see how this relates to the URL bar at all. (If I want to change the default search engine, there are already better and equally discoverable ways to do this -- from the search box or the Preferences.)

Comment 1

[aleth [:aleth]]

(In reply to aleth [:aleth] from comment #0)
> Apart from being a waste of space, I don't see how this relates to the URL
> bar at all.

To be clear why it's confusing: none of the results displayed above the bar ever come from a search engine.

Comment 2

[ivan]

Is there any way to get rid of this thing?

Comment 3

[ivan]

To answer my own question, put this in your profile's chrome/userChrome.css:

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
@namespace html url("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");

@-moz-document url-prefix("chrome://") {
	#urlbar-search-footer {
		display: none;
	}
}

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

that ui is incomplete since it's missing bug 1180944
This is common in nightly, if you're are uncomfortable testing incomplete things you should move to a more refined version like Developer Edition or Beta.

Comment 5

[ivan]

This was in Developer Edition

Comment 6

[aleth [:aleth]]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] (spotty available until 24 Aug) from comment #4)
> that ui is incomplete since it's missing bug 1180944
> This is common in nightly, if you're are uncomfortable testing incomplete
> things you should move to a more refined version like Developer Edition or
> Beta.

I'm certainly not uncomfortable testing incomplete things, but I thought part of the point of testing is to provide feedback ;)

In this case, it appears the confusion arose because I have search suggestions turned off. Maybe the footer bar should be hidden if the user has made this choice?

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

the feature is disabled there so it can't appear. maybe you enabled it explicitly?
Regardless it has been hidden by default in developer edition even when enabling the feature, a few days ago.

Comment 8

[aleth [:aleth]]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] (spotty available until 24 Aug) from comment #7)
> the feature is disabled there so it can't appear. maybe you enabled it
> explicitly?

How would I have done this? Is there a pref value to check?

Comment 9

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete

Comment 10

[aleth [:aleth]]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] (spotty available until 24 Aug) from comment #9)
> browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete

This is set to false (default value).

Comment 11

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Then I'm not sure how that is possible since bug 1191520, the code should not even exist in Developer edition.

Comment 12

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

The intent is for this button to only show up once we also have the one-off search buttons in the footer as well, so this bug is a wontfix. I'm going to reopen bug 1191520 though since apparently it hasn't disabled it in dev edition.

Comment 13

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

per comment 12