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Bug 1263580
Opened 8 years ago
Closed 3 years ago
Making flow between showing search term and home panels more cohesive
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(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)
Firefox for Android Graveyard
General
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(fennec-)
RESOLVED
INCOMPLETE
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(Reporter: krudnitski, Unassigned)
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I've been playing around (almost inadvertently) with searching for something and then wanting to continue in that same tab session out of that search flow. What's happening today. * Put in a search term (ie top tech blogs). * Tap 'enter' and get a results. * Tap on the URL bar because I want to do something else (I haven't wanted to continue on with that search). Action Result: * Search term 'top tech blogs' still in the URL bar. Tap on the 'x' on the URL bar and it returns to the results page (the page I was last on). * In order to get to the 'home page', I either have to repeat the above action, or start a new tab. Suggested Result: * Knowing that many people will likely want to continue searching until they've landed on something they want, I'm ok with still showing the search term. So my suggestion is that when the 'x' is tapped next to the URL bar, instead of showing the results page, show the 'home panel' experience. That way, I don't have to repeat (or start a new tab and close the older tab). And here's another workflow problem. I've now tapped on a search result and read the page. Now I want to continue browsing, but when tapping on the URL bar, I have my search term still in there (instead of allowing me to continue browsing as expected with home panels). I wasn't playing around with this with the idea of testing this out - it really did irk me when I just came across it (but then knew what we were trying to do). I'm looking to streamline this flow a bit more. Right now, it's breaking my browsing behaviour and speed of getting to where I want to go. I'm having to do additional taps now. What are the experiences of others here?
Comment 1•8 years ago
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I know that Barbara and I both agree that when hitting the "x" button, we expect it to clear the text we entered, not dismiss editing mode. I think we should explore doing that. See also bug 1245655, where we were discussing the behavior of the back button in edit mode as well.
Flags: needinfo?(bbermes)
Flags: needinfo?(alam)
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Comment 2•8 years ago
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I also think reading the terminology for the states (ie 'editing mode') isn't wholly natural to me, so seeing it in practice (and using it for my own personal browsing) has uncovered much more than reading how the behaviour was spec-ed out to be.
Comment 4•8 years ago
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This blocks us shipping the search-term experiment, we should make a decision.
tracking-fennec: ? → 47+
Comment 5•8 years ago
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This sounds like it's converging with bug 1263580. Can we merge them? Or is it still different in your mind Kar?
Flags: needinfo?(alam) → needinfo?(krudnitski)
Comment 6•8 years ago
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(In reply to Anthony Lam (:antlam) from comment #5) > This sounds like it's converging with bug 1263580. Can we merge them? Or is > it still different in your mind Kar? That's this bug... wrong bug number?
Flags: needinfo?(alam)
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Comment 8•8 years ago
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I'm not sure it does. Here's the scenario I just tested out. - in the URL bar, searched for 'fahrenheit to celsius' - tapped enter, got a google search result, tapped on the first result - now I'm on that page, I got the answer I needed, and now I want to read the BBC - I tap on the URL bar, and I still get the 'fahrenheit to celsius' search query in the URL bar What I want and expect is the home panels, because I've finished that one search. Pressing the x (currently in nightly) returns me to the page and not the home panels. It's not clear in that other bug that by pressing the x, I'd get the home panel in that case. That would be 'ok', but not great - ultimately, if I've moved beyond the search result page, I've likely completed that particular search and I want to continue browsing as I would normally do.
Flags: needinfo?(krudnitski)
Comment 9•8 years ago
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(In reply to Karen Rudnitski [:kar] from comment #8) > I'm not sure it does. > > Here's the scenario I just tested out. > - in the URL bar, searched for 'fahrenheit to celsius' > - tapped enter, got a google search result, tapped on the first result > - now I'm on that page, I got the answer I needed, and now I want to read > the BBC By "that page" do you mean you're on the Google Search Results page, or a website like "celciusconversion.com"? > - I tap on the URL bar, and I still get the 'fahrenheit to celsius' search > query in the URL bar > > What I want and expect is the home panels, because I've finished that one > search. Pressing the x (currently in nightly) returns me to the page and not > the home panels. In bug 1245655, the 'x' in the toolbar will clear the URL bar's "fahrenheit to celsius" text. Essentially, just like the "backspace" button - that would show you the home panels. > It's not clear in that other bug that by pressing the x, I'd get the home > panel in that case. That would be 'ok', but not great - ultimately, if I've > moved beyond the search result page, I've likely completed that particular > search and I want to continue browsing as I would normally do. Not sure I follow the same train of thought here.. But I'll stick some videos in the bug later.
Comment 10•8 years ago
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here's a prototype of the experience I'm suggesting
Flags: needinfo?(krudnitski)
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Updated•8 years ago
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Flags: needinfo?(krudnitski)
Comment 11•8 years ago
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In bug 1275782 I'm proposing we disable the "search-term" experiment until we have people who can more actively work on this.
Comment 12•8 years ago
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This doesn't need to track anymore, this experiment is disabled.
tracking-fennec: 47+ → -
Comment 13•3 years ago
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We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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Updated•3 years ago
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Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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