Closed Bug 431809 Opened 16 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Store more results in AwesomeBar to help drop-down browsing (and searching)

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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

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normal

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RESOLVED INACTIVE

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(Reporter: Mardak, Unassigned)

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We can put more results in the auto-complete, so users that can't think of any more words to filter results (or having no words -> clicking the dropdown).

There's a separate issue that perhaps we should show a variety of results instead of say..

http://site/unusefulresult1
http://site/unusefulresult2
http://site/unusefulresult3
http://site/unusefulresult4
http://site/unusefulresult5
http://site/unusefulresult6
http://site/unusefulresult7
http://site/unusefulresult8
http://site/somethingdifferent

Where all those pages show up if you search for "site".. The user might think of another word to search with if s/he saw "somethingdifferent" earlier in the list.
There'll be a slight perf impact on how fast the first set of results show up, but with bug 430461, we start searches right away instead of waiting 150ms.

Additionally with bug 422177, the performance of searching isn't bad at all when typing more, and because we continue searching from the existing list of results, it's more likely to find a match with a bigger maxRichResults.
Assignee: nobody → edilee
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Attachment #318973 - Flags: review?(beltzner)
(In reply to comment #0)
> We can put more results in the auto-complete, so users that can't think of any
> more words to filter results (or having no words -> clicking the dropdown).
Er.. that wasn't a complete thought. :p

Basically, if the user can only think of one/two words and gets only 12 results, s/he might not think of other words to search with without looking at more results.
(In reply to comment #0)
> http://site/unusefulresult1
> [...]
> http://site/unusefulresult8
> http://site/somethingdifferent

It could even be one or more websites with "site" in its title or an existing tag with some bookmarks. So how good is the fragmentation of the results that mostly each different type is shown up? 
Assignee: edilee → nobody
Attachment #318973 - Flags: review?(beltzner)
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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