1966811 - Enable Suggest in the UK and disable most suggestion types outside the US

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, task, P1)

Description

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Management would like to enable Suggest in the UK by default, but only AMP and offline Wikipedia.

Related to that, once Suggest overall is enabled, Firefox will try to ingest AMO, MDN, Yelp, and weather suggestions because each of those suggestion types is gated behind a pref that defaults to true. We defaulted those prefs to true because those suggestion types should be enabled in the US, and up til now Suggest has only been enabled in the US.

As we expand some suggestion types but not others outside the US, we need more fine-grained control of the types that are enabled in each region/locale. One possible solution is to keep defaulting all the relevant prefs to true and then setting appropriate filter expressions in RS records. So f.e. clients in the UK would have Yelp enabled at the pref level, but the Yelp record in RS wouldn't include the UK in its country filter. The problem with that is it makes it impossible for UK Mozillians to opt in to Yelp suggestions if they want to check them out.

A better solution is to set the prefs conditionally depending on the user's region and locale, just like we currently do for the overall Suggest prefs. That way people in the UK can opt in by flipping prefs.

Comment 1

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Attachment: Bug 1966811 - Enable Suggest in the UK and disable most suggestion types outside the US.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/133000aeabff
Enable Suggest in the UK and disable most suggestion types outside the US. r=daisuke,nanj

Comment 3

[Cristian Tuns]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/133000aeabff

Comment 4

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

:adw do you want to mention this in a release note? (Process info)

Comment 5

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: I believe we previously relnoted the UK Suggest Nimbus rollout in 138. Could you use the same note please? Except now Suggest, sponsored (AMP) suggestions, Wikipedia suggestions, and weather suggestions will be enabled by default. If I'm wrong and/or you need a proper relnote, let me know and I'll follow up.

[Suggested wording]:
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-suggest?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

Comment 6

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

:adw I want to make sure I have the correct info here, the only relevant Fx138 relnote I see is the rollout of weather suggestions in the US:

Users in the United States can now trigger weather suggestions in the address bar! Simply type a weather-related term or a city name, and view the result directly in the address bar dropdown.

I don't have anything related to the UK rollout. Unless I'm misunderstanding?
I can develop the wording, but can you clarify what I should list? I can mention it's UK specific.

Comment 7

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Sorry for the slow reply -- I talked with our PM Nive and we think this doesn't need a relnote after all. From a user POV, this bug doesn't introduce any new features, it just changes how they're delivered. That's because we started a Nimbus rollout on 138 in the UK that turns on Suggest (AMP and Wikipedia suggestions) and another one on 139 in the UK that turns on weather suggestions. This bug just enables all of those suggestions by default in Firefox in 140.