769804 - Awesome bar entries switch location as search suggestions come in

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Awesomescreen, defect)

Description

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

This causes me to select the wrong entry occasionally.

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

The row get taller as the suggestions need to wrap around, right?

Not sure we have a good fix for this. Do you find yourself tapping the wrong row frequently? Is this something you can learn to workaround?

Comment 2

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #1)
> The row get taller as the suggestions need to wrap around, right?

Correct.

> Not sure we have a good fix for this. Do you find yourself tapping the wrong
> row frequently? Is this something you can learn to workaround?

It doesn't happen too frequently but it does happen. I asked, Joe and it has also happened to him. The only way that I can think to work around it is to wait for the search results to populate before clicking a link or hope that I get lucky.

Perhaps we could improve this by making any suggestions that cause a wrapping to come in gradually instead of suddenly. i.e. have the box grow smoothly instead of popping.

Comment 3

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