Closed Bug 2068633 Opened 23 days ago Closed 22 days ago

New tab search bar is broken when Nova is disabled

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

defect

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VERIFIED FIXED
157 Branch
Tracking Status
firefox157 --- verified

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(Reporter: dao, Assigned: dao)

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(Whiteboard: [sng][mcab-hnt])

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The new tab search bar only lays out correctly with Nova enabled, and looks broken in weird ways with Nova disabled. Since Proton is on its way out, fold the Nova pref into the urlbar's newtabFeatureGate so <moz-urlbar> stands down and the handoff search bar registers in its place.

The bar is only themed for Nova, so this stands until Proton is removed.

Assignee: nobody → dao+bmo
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Pushed by dgottwald@mozilla.com: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/4804f518f1bd https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/039c1aeb9626 Fall back to the handoff search bar on New Tab when Nova is disabled. r=mbeier,mconley
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 days ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → 157 Branch
QA Whiteboard: [search][qa-triage-done-c157/b156][qa-ver-needed-c157/b156]

Reproducible on a 2026-09-02 Firefox Nightly build on Windows 10.

Verified as fixed on Firefox Nightly 157.0a1 on Windows 10, Ubuntu 22, macOS 13.

Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Whiteboard: [search][qa-triage-done-c157/b156][qa-ver-needed-c157/b156] → [search][qa-triage-done-c157/b156][qa-ver-done-c157/b156]
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