Open Bug 1629172 Opened 5 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Misleading description of Search Bar choices

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

75 Branch
enhancement

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UNCONFIRMED

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(Reporter: pierces, Unassigned)

Details

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

Steps to reproduce:

In about:preferences->Search->Search Bar, the choices are:
"Use the address bar for search and navigation" and
"Add search bar in toolbar"

My reading of this choice suggests that adding a search bar would make the address bar only used for navigation.

Actual results:

Enabling the search bar does not change any behavior of the urlbar.

Expected results:

My preference would be that adding the search bar disables search features in the url bar. (keyword.enabled=false)

A quicker fix would be rewording or changing the option, ie:

Search Bar
The megabar always allows searching, but adding a dedicated search bar is an option for advanced users.
"Hide the search bar"
"Show the search bar"

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

Component: Untriaged → Address Bar
Component: Address Bar → Preferences

Resetting severity to default of --.

Severity: normal → S3
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