1520290 - Make handoff from New Tab SAP to Awesome Bar less jarring

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Verdi [:verdi] Best to slack me]

Attachment: handoff.jpg

Bug 1508388 implemented a handoff from the new tab SAP to the Awesome Bar. Looking at the interaction with an existing profile, things often seem to happen out of order.

Attached is a breakdown of one of the interactions that I filmed. What happens is:
0. Type "n" in the new tab SAP

1. New tab SAP fades out
2. Awesome bar dropdown starts to appear
3. The top autoselected result along with the, apparently cached, results from a previous interaction show up in the dropdown
4. The character "n" and the autocomplete, "ewyorker.com/" in this case, appear in the awesome bar
5. The results in the dropdown change
6. The results in the dropdown change a final time

Here is a video of it happening slowed down to 10% speed:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EQRSgmEW_J14tDQMiwu1CZB0vJOfcofH/view?usp=sharing

That's a lot of things happening with the many of them drawing the eye away from where it should travel.

It would be great if we could instead have something like this where the action first moves to the address bar, followed by the dropdown with the final results:
0. Type "n" in the new tab SAP

1. The "n" character appears in the awesome bar and the new tab SAP fades out at the same time.
2. The autocomplete text appears in the awesome bar and the dropdown with the final results appear at the same time.

Here's a video of the proposed interaction:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EVdjmy8hbMgQmp_yLVIxtirfwboF6OPn/view?usp=sharing

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I believe the Activity Stream team are handling the transition work, but feel free to move it back if that's wrong.

Comment 2

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

:verdi, can you check the latest implementation on Nightly? We've made a lot of changes and some of that should be fixed (if not all?). Thank you!

Comment 3

[Verdi [:verdi] Best to slack me]

(In reply to Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky] from comment #2)

:verdi, can you check the latest implementation on Nightly? We've made a lot of changes and some of that should be fixed (if not all?). Thank you!

It looks like it's all still happening but it happens faster. I talked to Mike deBoer about it and he said these are things that we'll have to address as part of the quantum bar work.

Comment 4

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

I don't recall what the 'things that we'll have to address as part of the quantum bar work' are, but I think that I wouldn't said any more than something along the lines of 'Quantum Bar needs to be done first, before we can take a look at any further optimizations'.

Comment 5

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

This appears to be fixed.