1197649 - The search suggestions notification looks terrible for small Firefox windows

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

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Attachment: Screenshot

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Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

bug 1181078 will enlarge the popup width and should help here.

that said, nowadays screens are far wider, so the likely for this to happen is quite low.

Comment 2

[(no longer active)]

This is unrelated to the width of the screen, it's related to the width of the Firefox window.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

It's not unrelated, cause the likely of seeing the prompt in such a small window on a modern screen is plausibly very low.
Plus all of our notification bars have basically the same exact issue, apart the fact they take the whole window instead of a part of it (and that's why I'm saying bug 1181078 will bring this on par with other notification bars).

Comment 5

[arni2033]

While I'm not actually "affected" by this, I still want to note that:
   1) Some users (including me) tend not to click questioning panels/tooltips if they have no spare
      time to figure it out, because that (in user logic) would make it difficult to find the same
      option on about:preferences. So that notification appears *every time*, not 1 time per profile
   2) My firefox window from but 1209296 wasn't small at all (~900x720)

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

bug 1181078 should have largely improved this.

We discussed to completely change the search suggestions prompt, since data seem to tell us users are "unsure" about what they want, and let it stick there forever.
So, stay tuned for future changes, for now this will be considered WFM since now the popup is as large as the window.