1506332 - call omnibox.setDefaultSuggestion() without defining a keyword

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, enhancement)

Description

[lolipopplus]

Firefox awesome bar autocomplete feature now requires a special characters that are hard to memorize for users.
I am trying to create an add-on with a page action popup that has several buttons. When users click, lets say clicking `Search by tab title` for example, I expect to call omnibox.setDefaultSuggestion() to apply a # in address bar.
Per API docs at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/omnibox I have to use a keyword.
But can I call it without keyword?

Comment 1

[Andrew Swan [:aswan]]

Something like this was previously discussed and declined, you can read the detailed reasoning in the duplicate bug.

Comment 2

[lolipopplus]

(In reply to Andrew Swan [:aswan] from comment #1)
> Something like this was previously discussed and declined, you can read the
> detailed reasoning in the duplicate bug.

I believe it is not.
bug 1385596 is to do much more complicate than I request here:
I am to only adding specific characters pre-defined in Firefox and only add them at the very beginning.
Nothing more than that.

Comment 3

[Andrew Swan [:aswan]]

You didn't actually ask a question when you set needinfo?

In any case, the omnibox API is deliberately designed to make it clear to users when an extension is controlling (some aspect of) what they see in the awesome bar.  If you want to propose something different, you need to make a concrete and specific proposal and ideally, explain how the browser would make it clear to users when and how extensions are using the API to affect the awesome bar suggestions.