1722969 - Don't switch from search bar in the default page to address bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1707701

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[andysem]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a new tab. The new tab page should be the default one, with the search bar.
2. Try typing the search query in the search bar.

Actual results:

The cursor switches to the address bar and the search query gets typed there. If the search query happens to look like an URL, it is interpreted as one, instead of searching.

Expected results:

When the user types in the search bar, pressing Enter should result in a search, even if it looks like an URL. The fact that the user enters text in the search bar is an explicit indication of his intention.

Ideally, I would like this switch to the address bar to be disabled by default. The user should type the text in the search bar, as it worked before. Alternatively, the redirection to the address bar should make it so that the address bar unambiguously interprets the typed text as a search query and nothing else (e.g. by using some magic syntax).

I'm marking this as a defect since this is a regression from the past experience, when the search bar worked without switching to the address bar.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

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.