539598 - If toolbars are hidden when users attempt to use location/search bars, show toolbars temporarily instead of using fallback behaviour

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

I'm not sure what the real name of this dialog is, but here's how you trigger it:

1. Find an OS X computer running Firefox
2. Click the "pill button" in the upper right corner to remove the toolbar UI
3. Hit Command-L to bring up the URL entry field… only, you get the old Open dialog instead.

What should happen instead, is that we should fold down the proper awesomebar/toolbar UI while you're entering your URL or search term, and once input has been accepted, slide it back up, so it's no longer visible.

This will allow you to use the browser without any toolbars open, and is especially useful combined with the tab matching in the awesomebar (bug #480350).

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

There's a bunch of ways to hit this dialog.  The pill is but one.  Hiding the toolbar that the location bar is on is another.  Removing the UI from the toolbars in customize is a third.  I'd also want to apply this to the searchbar, since right now we just open a search engine page if the search shortcut is used.

When the UI is simply hidden (due to the pill, or unchecking a toolbar) we should behave like we do with alt-keys on Windows (with the menubar hidden) and show that toolbar while the field remains focused.  We do this for full screen already, and it's fairly trivial (and we can even consider doing the animation!).

If the user has killed the location bar out of their toolbar config, we probably need the fallback behaviour still, but I think this bug gets us to a better place.

Comment 2

[Graham Perrin]

Time to close this issue? 

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