1629172 - Misleading description of Search Bar choices

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Stephen Pierce]

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"

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

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Resetting severity to default of --.