1629122 - Allow to manage Top Sites directly from the address bar

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Mathew Hodson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Enable Top Sites in preferences
2. Click the address bar so the list of Top Sites is displayed
3. Use the down arrow to select a site
4. Press Shift+Delete

Actual results:

Nothing

Expected results:

The site should be dismissed and another should take its place as if the use clicked Dismiss from the new tab page.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This is an interesting request, shift+del for now only removes history, if a Top Site is pinned, it's not going to affect it.
I think we still don't have a bug to allow editing top sites directly from the urlbar, so let's this be it.

Comment 3

[Mathew Hodson]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #2)

This is an interesting request, shift+del for now only removes history, if a Top Site is pinned, it's not going to affect it.

For at least 75 and 76, shift+del doesn't affect any of the top sites shown on initial address bar focus, whether they are pinned or not.

Comment 4

[Asif Youssuff]

This is really weird. Shift-delete in the address bar doesn't remove things from bookmarks (other suggestions).

I'd much rather have a tip at the bottom like "This time search with..." to take the user to about:newtab, along with a settings gear that takes the user to about:preferences#home.

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Resetting severity to default of --.

Comment 9

[Mathew Hodson]

Does it make sense for this to be under bug 1789661? The new menu button could be used to remove the Shortcuts results (previously called Top Sites) that are shown on first click.

Comment 10

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Mathew Hodson from comment #9)

Does it make sense for this to be under bug 1789661? The new menu button could be used to remove the Shortcuts results (previously called Top Sites) that are shown on first click.

Not for the initial release but it's something we could look into as a followup.