1228654 - [meta] Collapse History entries that are all "the same site" in Firefox for Android

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Awesomescreen, defect)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

This ticket tracks implementing parts of https://people.mozilla.org/~dhenein/labs/mobile-panels/#collapsiblehistorydecoratedsearchhistory.  This is similar to Bug 1227019, which tracks decorating Search History entries with search terms.

I interpret Darrin's mock to have a few parts:

1) grouping history entries that are "the same site".

This in itself is non-trivial: do we group by origin?  By eTLD+1?  I believe Firefox for iOS does this for Top Sites, and I bet that Desktop has code for this too; we can learn from that.

We should implement this as a little utility categorizing class.

2) updating the History Panel search query to group using the categorizer, and to allow expanding and collapsing the groups.  This might require using an Expandable list, like we did with the Remote Tabs Panel.

3) enrich the group elements to possibly represent parts of the group.  Darrin's mock group a bunch of searches, and then decorate the group with search terms for *more than one search*.  That's an extension of Bug 1227019.

Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

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