1801823 - Interacting with the Google Agreement form in the background, dismisses the Persist Tip

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Vlad Lucaci, Thunderbird QA (:vlucaci)]

Attachment: Screenshot 2022-11-21 at 11.03.37.png

Found in

• 108.0b4

Affected versions

• 108.0b4
• 109.0a1

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: Windows 11, macOS 12, Ubuntu 22

Preconditions

• Enable the feature by setting browser.urlbar.showSearchTerms.featureGate to true.
• Have Google as the default search engine
• Have a clean FF profile.

Steps to reproduce

1. Go to the URL bar and input a search term
2. Click Accept/Reject on the Google Agreement modal.

Expected result

• Persist Tip is displayed in the foreground and is not cancelled when clicking on the Google Agreement Accept/Reject buttons (or anywhere else on the page).

Actual result

• The Persist Tip is closed when clicking anywhere on the page (or when interacting with Accept/Reject buttons of the Google Agreement modal) and no longer displayed.

Other Notes

• If tip is presented in the foreground, as a user I would expect that the tip will stay displayed regardless of my interactions with page elements in the background. (Or at the very least to be displayed once more when performing a new search, if the user has not pressed "Ok, Got it" button specifically.)

Comment 1

[James Teow [:jteow]]

Right now, the behaviour is consistent insofar as any non-urlbar click while the search tip is shown is going to dismiss it. If it didn't work that way, any time a search tip shown and a user clicks on a webpage, it wouldn't dismiss, which might be annoying for users.

I think the best solution is hiding the search tip if a SERP modal is shown since it's a pretty distracting experience seeing both at once. Detecting it's existence is likely to be non-trivial though.

Comment 2

[James Teow [:jteow]]

Closing this as the Persist Search Tip is no longer available.