1852048 - [Search Preferences] Move address bar to search preferences

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

The split of search preferences across “Search” and “Privacy & Security” is a constant source of pain. We should move everything over to “Search”, and have “Privacy & Security” link to Address Bar suggestions preferences rather than the other way around. Most likely, merging “Search Suggestions” with “Address Bar – Firefox Suggest” would make the most sense. The challenge here is cleaning up our language, especially around the term “suggest[ions]”.

Comment 1

[Karandeep Lubana [:klubana]]

Attachment: Bug 1852048 - Move address bar to search preferences. r=dao

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/d96808c217d0
Move address bar to search preferences. r=dao,fluent-reviewers,bolsson

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: Notable for users who are used to these prefs being in the Privacy pane, and for users who possibly haven't known about these prefs due to them having been buried in the Privacy pane
[Affects Firefox for Android]: no
[Suggested wording]: Address bar settings can now be found in Firefox Settings' Search section
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox#w_changing-your-address-bar-settings (page still needs to be updated, see bug 1873040)

Comment 4

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d96808c217d0

Comment 5

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Note added to nightly 123 release notes (without the link to SUMO for now)

Comment 6

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

Enhancement is implemented on Firefox 123.0b9 and Firefox Nightly 124.0a1 on Windows 10, macOS 12, Ubuntu 22.