1682633 - Need to confirm after selecting search engine

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1671815

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[cshjsc]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:83.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/83.0

Comment 1

[cshjsc]

STR:
1 select the url bar
2 type something
3 select search engine

Actual: Asks for confirmation (to use that search engine).

Expected: Search without confirmation as in previous versions of Firefox.

Is there a way to disable this confirmation step.
thanks

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

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

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

You can press shift when you select the search engine and it will search straight away.

Comment 4

[cshjsc]

that seems to work, it would be great if it could be done without it, just like it was before.

Comment 5

[Harry Twyford]

The team has discussed this issue at length and we're happy with the current solution of offering Shift as an override. The new behaviour isn't so much a "confirmation" step as it is giving the user more flexibility. You can decide to search with that particular engine before, during, or after you type your search query and you can get suggestions and history for that engine as you type. See more at bug 1671815 comment 1.

Comment 6

[Steven M. Crown]

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200901-202101
8% and declining, soon even Edge has more users.

Ruining it for everyone and dogmatic replies like "we like it better that way" when the users obviously don't are not bringing Firefox's userbase back. But glad your internship worked out for you!

And this is why I use ESR, no forced feature changes, just security patches. Might as well dump the browser in September when the ESR lifecycle ends. Infantilizing the userbase certainly won't earn you any respect. And now deplatform me and hide my comment. Ignoring constructive criticism is always the answer when the ego dictates: Devs opinion >> user opinion.

Nobody asked to remove this setting, literally no one:
browser.urlbar.update2.oneOffsRefresh

Comment 7

[Steven M. Crown]

Addendum:
Now, searching in a non-default search engine requires two clicks instead of one. Weird design decision, extra clicks are always bad, in my opinion.
UI team clearly hates work flow and powerusers.

Comment 8

[kilianrosbach]

This change upsets me a lot, and I created a Bugzilla account to ask you to please reconsider your decision.

I'm not using search engine suggestions, so the extra click (or shift-click, or Enter) offers no benefit to me at all. I see that you rejected enhancement bug 1684280 and I somewhat agree that having special rules that create implicit connections between multiple settings is not optimal.

But perhaps adding the browser.urlbar.update2.oneOffsRefresh preference back in would be possible with reasonable effort?