1461986 - Adding a 3rd party search engine should be more intuitive

Status: NEW

(Firefox for iOS :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Igor Lazar]

Attachment: add_search_engine.jpg

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Firefox and navigate to a website that contains a search field (youtube, imdb)
2. Select the searchfield

The option to add a 3rd party search engine should be more intuitive.

Instead of the on-keyboard icon to add the search engine, there should be an option available after a long tap interaction with any search fields.

Comment 1

[Justin D'Arcangelo [:justindarc]]

Robin, can you think of anything we can do here to make this clearer to the user?

Comment 2

[Robin Andersen [:tecgirl]]

What I've noticed here is that on iPad the Add Search Engine icon is a tad small and all the way to the right, easy to miss. On iPhone it also shows up to the right of the up/down carets but more prominent placement being left with Add Search closer to the middle. I wonder if we increased its size a bit and figured out how to place it to the left of the up/down carets.

This icon shows up as soon as the user taps into a field with a supported engine, I think long-pressing the input is not obvious or discoverable for this action.