406240 - should the "star" and "tag" icons in the autocomplete results be in another location (not on the far right)?

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

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should the "star" and "tag" icons in the autocomplete results be in another location (not on the far right)?

discussing with faaborg yesterday, it's nice how now the favicon, url, and title are all on the left, unlike before where the favicon and url were on the left and the title and star/tag icon was on the right.

perhaps we should figure out how to move the tag/star icon to the left as well, so I don't have to look all the way to the right to see if the result is "starred" / "tagged"?

Comment 1

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

I'll be posting a new mockup over in bug 393508

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

So, I think that these icons are less important, but represent useful context.  I don't think adding more weight to the left is a good thing at this point, and I don't think this is the important data anyway.

Comment 3

[Karsten]

The Star is a nice feature. But I think about a highlight of the Text, so that the User can see which page is a favorite or only a already-visited (history) page easiliere. 

Comment 4

[Karsten]

//EDIT: The Idea from Seth Spitzer (perhaps we should figure out how to move the tag/star icon to the left as well,
so I don't have to look all the way to the right to see if the result is
"starred" / "tagged"?) is maybe much better than a highlighted text.

Comment 5

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

This might be something to look into if bug 401660 lands which will put the page tags into the title like.. "Title (tags)      <tagicon>".

Comment 6

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

Beltzner proposed on a white board today:

Page Title Goes Here (<tagicon> tags)
http://thisistheurl.com

We thought this would work best if (tags) were in a different font color as well to separate it from a title that contains parentheses.

Comment 7

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

What if the title is really long? Same thing for the star icon? (Put it right after the title?)

Comment 8

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

>What if the title is really long?

I sort of remember another bug about concatenating the title to show the matching section.  Ideally if that got solved, we would leverage that to show the tag match.  Otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it given our ship schedule.

>Same thing for the star icon?

It's important that the star remains vertically aligned with the control to bookmark a page, because that helps user's learn what that control is for (they notice that an existing bookmark in the results has a star).

Comment 10

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

This seems to be WORKSFORME given the UX guidance in this bug.