2027510 - Zoom percentage missing only on search results page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Daniel Tang]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:148.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/148.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Zoom this bug's page at 200%
2. Open a new tab
3. Search "firefox zoom" in Google using the address bar
4. Zoom the Google tab to 200%
5. Click "Images"
6. Go back

Actual results:

The percentage only shows up in non--search result pages like this Bugzilla or the Google images. It does not show up in the search results page, where both it and the favorites star icon are replaced by a globe icon. Clicking the globe restores both the zoom chip and the star, but this is unintuitive and is inconvenient for accessibility.

Expected results:

All 3 pages should have the 200% chip on the right side inside the address bar

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

I can reproduce this issue on Kbuntu24.04 KDE X11 and Windows11 w/ new profile.
Regression window:
https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=bcf58080cea5f3e08f50ae21024e86d40519bfcc&tochange=91d01888d36c89719b44620221e1979c55924902

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

:daisuke, since you are the author of the regressor, bug 1968218, could you take a look? Also, could you set the severity field?

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Comment 4

[James Teow [:jteow]]

Thanks for the report. This is intentional behaviour: when Persisted Search Terms is active, page actions (including the zoom chip and star) are hidden to simplify the address bar and make the revert action more prominent. This was a deliberate UX decision made during the design of the feature, as the number of page actions could otherwise compete with the visibility of the revert button. We don't currently have plans to change this unless page actions get a broader overhaul.

That being said, you have the option to disable Persisted Search Terms by going to about:preferences#search and un-checking "Show search terms in the address bar on results pages." That will restore the zoom chip and star along with all other page action buttons on all search result pages.