1915766 - Add a Nimbus variable that hides the Suggest UI

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, task, P1)

Description

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

The new potential exposures implementation relies on Suggest, but Suggest is currently limited to U.S. users, and we'd like the ability to enable potential exposures in any region and locale. The only part of Suggest that's visible to users and not behind some feature gate or other pref is the settings UI (I think). If we add a Nimbus variable that hides the UI, then we can set it plus quickSuggestEnabled to use potential exposures (and any other under-the-hood part of Suggest) outside the U.S.

Comment 1

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Attachment: Bug 1915766 - Add a Nimbus variable that hides the Suggest UI.

This makes browser_search_firefoxSuggest.js more realistic by installing a
Nimbus experiment to change the Suggest scenario instead of manually setting the
scenario via the helper function. (The "scenario" just means whether Suggest is
enabled or not, basically. "history" means it's not enabled; "offline" and
"online" mean it's enabled. The difference between the latter two is that in
"online" the user has opted in to the Merino server, and that only means one of
the Suggest prefs is true instead of false.)

I noticed browser_privacy_firefoxSuggest.js does not check the visibility of
its Suggest section at all, so I added similar tasks to it and factored out the
common helpers into head.js.

Depends on D221097

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/c8e97bda463e
Add a Nimbus variable that hides the Suggest UI. r=daisuke,settings-reviewers,mossop

Comment 3

[Atila Butkovits]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c8e97bda463e