Provide preference to control "default private search engine features" in GUI Options/about:preferences
Categories
(Firefox :: Search, defect)
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| firefox70 | --- | unaffected |
| firefox71 | --- | affected |
People
(Reporter: Virtual, Unassigned)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
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STR:
Please provide preference to control "default private search engine features" in GUI Options/about:preferences (or at least in Advanced Preferences/about:config) with ability to disable "Search in Private Window" item in Address Bar and in mouse context menu.
I don't need these items and I want to have preference to control it, as it breaks my "muscle memory" (with constant miss-clicks) in mouse context menu and it's useless for me in Address Bar (more obstacle I don't want to see).
Preference to control this could be added to Options (about:preferences) in Search tab (about:preferences#search) at "Default Search Engine" bellow "Use this search engine in Private Windows" preference as maybe "Show "Search in Private Window" in address bar results and in mouse context menu"). It can even be divided to 2 preferences, first to control only address bar and second to control only mouse context menu.
Nearly same thing it's done with whole "Search Suggestions", but it's only about address bar.
Caused by:
Bug #1576160 - Turn on the display of default private search engine feature for nightly/early beta users. r=mak
Differential Revision:
https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D47223
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Comment 1•7 years ago
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(In reply to Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.) from comment #0)
STR:
Please provide preference to control "default private search engine features" in GUI Options/about:preferences (or at least in Advanced Preferences/about:config) with ability to disable "Search in Private Window" item in Address Bar and in mouse context menu.I don't need these items and I want to have preference to control it, as it breaks my "muscle memory" (with constant miss-clicks) in mouse context menu and it's useless for me in Address Bar (more obstacle I don't want to see).
Can you explain what's breaking about the muscle memory in the right-click menu? I doubt people would be doing "View Selection Source" that much, and the normal option is still the first option, so I really don't see why that would really break things for people.
Re the address bar - the option only gets displayed when there's no other local suggestions from history/bookmarks etc. I don't see that having that there is too distracting.
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Comment 2•7 years ago
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(In reply to Mark Banner (:standard8) from comment #1)
Can you explain what's breaking about the muscle memory in the right-click menu? I doubt people would be doing "View Selection Source" that much, and the normal option is still the first option, so I really don't see why that would really break things for people.
It's breaking my "muscle memory" per above reasons too, but it's also extremely visible with additional items added from extensions to mouse context menu.
(In reply to Mark Banner (:standard8) from comment #1)
Re the address bar - the option only gets displayed when there's no other local suggestions from history/bookmarks etc. I don't see that having that there is too distracting.
I have otherwise opinion about this.
Thankfully, I found preference named "browser.search.separatePrivateDefault.ui.enabled" in Advanced Preferences/about:config which controls this new feature and I won't have to waste my time on adding additional code to undo this in user CSS files.
It would be really nice to add it also to GUI Options/about:preferences, so users preferring minimalistic GUI like me or users which won't be using this new feature, could easily disable this feature.
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Comment 3•7 years ago
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The general picture here is that as well as allowing a separate engine to be specified in private mode, we're also trying to make it easier for people to swap to private windows through common actions, and to hence access them more easily (rather than having to divert via creating a new private window and then restarting what they were doing).
Whilst we appreciate this adds more to the UI, we have to balance its complexity with allowing users to get things done, and making them aware of their options.
In this case we won't be adding preferences to control this UI - they are small additions, that generally shouldn't get in the way, and having a major option in preferences wouldn't be appropriate. Likewise, we're not going to add a background preference as that would add extra, unnecessary complexity to the code.
The browser.search.separatePrivateDefault.ui.enabled preference is for enabling the whole feature, and is to allow us to either roll it out gradually, or turn it off for a release if a critical issue is found. At some stage after we've released it, we'll be removing it - the preference in itself adds quite a lot of complexity to the code, and for testing, which we don't want to keep.
I'm sorry we can't accommodate everyone, but as with any development that we do, there's a balance about what we do include and what we don't. We trust our user research and user experience people to make the right decisions here.
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