1229685 - Search Aliases function only in address bar

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Adrian Florinescu [:aflorinescu]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0

Steps:
1. Open Firefox and click magnifying glass from the Search toolbox.
2. Edit the quick search engines and add an alias to one of them, excluding the default search engine.
3. Try to use the alias in the 4 available locations: address bar, quick search toolbox, home search and new tab search.

Actual Result:
The alias will only function in the address bar.

Expected Result:
I am aware that this behavior is expected functionality in the last several builds, but from the user experience point of view it is a confusing behavior. It shouldn't be expected that a regular user dissociates between the four search zones. It would be expected that the alias functions as a shortcut to all four search zones.