1451119 - Show a badge on the page action button (…) when the current page offers a search engine/plugin

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Bug 1221539 added a new button in the page action menu that installs OpenSearch plugins on the current page.  But it's pretty well hidden because it only appears for pages that offer plugins, and unless you add the button to the urlbar, you have to open the menu to see it.  It's therefore hard to tell when a page offers plugins.

In contrast, the search bar makes it easy to see because its magnifying-glass icon gets a green plus-sign badge.

We should consider adding a badge to the primary page action button (…) when the current page offers an OpenSearch plugin, or some other kind of visual indicator.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

IIRC, UX itself said they don't want a distracting badge here, since it may be annoying when the action of adding an engine is quite seldom, we should first of all go through UX.

Comment 2

[Eric Pang [:epang] UX]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] from comment #1)
> IIRC, UX itself said they don't want a distracting badge here, since it may
> be annoying when the action of adding an engine is quite seldom, we should
> first of all go through UX.

Thanks Macro!

It was intentional leaving a badge off the page action menu at this time.
Besides adding noise and clutter, the badge gives the feature the same importance as other items in the address bar such as the privacy lock which should be much higher on the hierarchy. 

Without the usage data I don't think we can justify giving it so more prominence at this point.

Comment 3

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Thanks Eric.  I'll wontfix this then.