868607 - Hard to get the dynamic address bar to show on nightly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 868998

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

It is hard to get the dynamic address bar to show on nightly vs aurora. On aurora the address bar shows on almost any pan down action where as on nightly there seems to be a threshold. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL9M4rmNAS4

Comment 1

[Demetrius S.]

The address bar only opens when you swipe down from the top of the screen. Makes it nicer for full screen but harder to get the address bar back with out knowing its there.

Comment 2

[Chris Lord [:cwiiis]]

Maybe I misunderstand what the blocking field should be used for, but does this really block bug 716403?

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Meh, we just treat it for tracking all fallout bugs usually off an initial implementation (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=716403&hide_resolved=1). When we figure out what regressed this bug we can change it to the exact bug.

Comment 5

[Tetsuharu OHZEKI [:tetsuharu] (UTC+9)]

I remember that the early behavior was always displaying dynamic toolbar when user scroll down a page. I think this behavior is very simple for user and good for resolve this problem.

Comment 6

[Peter Retzer (:pretzer)]

The issue is no regression but an intended change, see bug 865298. The toolbar is only revealed when scrolling up in the top *quarter* of the screen. 

I think it's a nice idea to be able to scroll up without revealing the toolbar, but I agree that the feature is hard to discover. Discoverability is escpecially a problem phones with big screens as user tend to scroll in the lower half of the screen, when they hold the phone with one hand, I think.

Maybe we can show a kind of overlay that educates the user when the toolbar is dismissed for the first time?

Comment 7

[Peter Retzer (:pretzer)]

Attachment: Overlay mockup

I tried to create a quick and dirty mockup to show what I mean with 'overlay' (I had only Paint at hand, so this is quite ugly, sorry ;-)

Comment 8

[Mathieu Pellerin]

It would definitively need some sort of user-friendly educational hint. Hoping that the user will accidentally trigger zone and make the link is unfriendly behavior. :)

Comment 9

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

Another option we are looking at is to reveal the title bar after you pull down a certain distance, say 40 pixels or so, from anywhere on the screen. We're going to compare that interaction to this one before we decide what we want to ship.

Comment 10

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Whichever the case, this should track 23+ if that's the target first release of the dynamic-toolbar.

Comment 11

[Chris Lord [:cwiiis]]

We only need one bug to track this I think.