Closed Bug 1480814 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Add a pref to enable/disable top site search shortcuts on the newtab page

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(Firefox :: New Tab Page, enhancement, P1)

60 Branch
enhancement

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VERIFIED FIXED
Firefox 63
Iteration:
63.3 - Aug 6
Tracking Status
firefox62 --- verified
firefox63 --- verified

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(Reporter: tspurway, Assigned: ursula)

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(Blocks 1 open bug)

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browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improve-search.top-site-search-short-cuts-enabled = boolean

The default should be true in beta, false in release 

This pref will be used by the Shield/Normandy infrastructure to run the experiment to pref the feature on
Severity: normal → enhancement
Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream

https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/commit/5687270d5e03d74e708c1d2bc5baa01bdccc376c
Fix Bug 1480814 - Add a pref to enable/disable top site search shortcuts on the newtab page

https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/commit/b1e9631a538ccccc8e37536780abe04ebb9021f3
Merge pull request #4285 from sarracini/bug_1480814

Fix Bug 1480814 - Add a pref to enable/disable top site search shortcuts on the newtab page
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Blocks: 1481559
(In reply to Tim Spurway [:tspurway] from comment #0)
> browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improve-search.top-site-search-short-cuts-
> enabled = boolean
> 
> The default should be true in beta, false in release 
> 
> This pref will be used by the Shield/Normandy infrastructure to run the
> experiment to pref the feature on

NOTE:  the pref is actually browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.topSiteSearchShortcuts
I have verified that the "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.topSiteSearchShortcuts" boolean (by default with the "true" value) is displayed in the "about:config" page, on Windows 10 x64, Arch Linux and Mac 10.13.3 with the latest version of "Firefox Nightly" (63.0a1 - Build ID 20180812220618) installed.

Also, I have verified that after the pref is set to "false", the top site search shortcuts are no longer displayed in the "Top Sites" area.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Blocks: 1482398
I have verified that the "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.topSiteSearchShortcuts" pref can be used to turn the search shortcut feature on and off in the latest Beta (62.0b18 Build ID 20180816151750) on Windows 10, Mac 10.13 and Arch Linux x64.
Component: Activity Streams: Newtab → New Tab Page
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