1716237 - Web search in Firefox start page jumps to URL bar even when URL bar search suggestions off

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1645293

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

Web search on the Firefox start page jumps to the URL bar now. Web search is not a history search - it is presumably called web search for a reason. When I disable URL bar search suggestions (so I can only display URL history), web search still sends me to the URL bar and shows only URL history vs showing me search suggestions. It's actually not web search box now but just a 2nd URL/address bar.

Actual results:

Starting to type in the Web search box on the Firefox start page takes me to the URL bar where only URLs from history are suggested when search suggestions are turned off on the address bar. It should show me search suggestions from the web just as it used to regardless of settings for URL bar.

Expected results:

It should show search suggestions from the web regardless of what settings I've made on the URL/address bar. I use URL bar for history searching. I use a search box for search suggestions. Why offer a web search box on the home page if you're just going to punt people to the URL bar anyway? You should call it what it is - a 2nd URL bar in a different location on the screen. Jumping to the new search box on the toolbar would be better than current behavior but even then, why offer the big search box with nice big fonts if you're going to just move people somewhere else on the screen? Buggy behavior and serious loss of usability.

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.