Main Search Bar Does Not Respond
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
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(Reporter: erwinm, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:83.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/83.0
Steps to reproduce:
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Type search term in main search bar.
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Select search engine, by clicking on it.
A blue bar appears to the left of the search term, indicating the search engine. And a description, "search with [engine]" underneath. Sometimes recently-visited Wikipedia pages show up when picking Wikipedia as the search engine.
Actual results:
- Keep trying to search by clicking on the engine picker at the bottom.
Nothing more happens.
- Now try double-clinking on the search bar.
Text selected, but no search.
- Now try double-clicking on the blue bar.
Nothing more happens.
- Now try double-clicking on the migrainifier... uh... magnifier icon.
Nothing more happens.
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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The way the search feature works has now changed. You need to press enter to complete the search. Alternately you can shift-click the button.
The change means that after selecting search mode, you can do further refinement of your search and use autocomplete suggestions from the site you're actually going to search from if they are available.
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Updated•5 years ago
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I can press enter. But that requires going from keyboard to mouse back to keyboard and then to mouse, so it's an extra ergonomic hassle. I for one can't shift-click anything. No shift key on my mouse or mouse button on my keyboard.
Neither option is clearly shown.
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Comment 4•5 years ago
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(In reply to MarjaE from comment #3)
Neither option is clearly shown.
I agree that the Shift+Click behaviour is fairly hidden. It's just something we added to support power users who still wanted to use the legacy behaviour. It was called out in the Firefox 83 release notes to reach those power users. We don't currently have plans to surface it in the UI.
As for pressing Enter, I would argue that it is clearly shown in the UI. When you type a query then click a search button, we highlight the first result in blue, to indicate we still search for that result when Enter is pressed. This is the same UI that is shown when typing a query without clicking a search engine shortcut, to indicate what will happen when Enter is pressed.
As for doing everything from the keyboard or the mouse, there are two other approach you could try:
- Middle clicking the engine buttons executes a search immediately and opens it in a background tab
- You can use the up/down arrow keys while holding Alt to cycle through the engines without changing your selection in the Urlbar. So for example you would type your query, press Alt+Down to select the first search engine, then press Shift+Enter to execute that search immediately in the current tab. I realize this is a bit contrived, but these are mostly workarounds.
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