1506316 - Firefox AwesomeBar search keywords are uglier than Chrome Omnibar search keywords

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Stephan Sokolow]

Attachment: Annotated Comparison

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install a search provider and set a keyword for it.
2. Type the keyword into the address bar
3. Hit the spacebar


Actual results:

Firefox highlights the keyword using an intense white-on-blue text highlight that doesn't match any other color in the UI's color scheme and allows the descenders of letters like "g" to blend into the white background of the surrounding un-highlighted space.


Expected results:

Firefox should do something like Chrome does, which doesn't look so un-polished. (See attached image.)

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Unfortunately the current setup doesn't allow us to do that, but we were already evaluating that for the future.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Search mode is a partial solution to this. It doesn't strictly work just typing a keyword, but it works if the keyword is preceded by an @.