953332 - Per-tab search engine search bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 248955

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Rainer Meier]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131205075310

Steps to reproduce:

Recently Firefox find bar behavior was modified to include a per-tab behavior remembering search terms for each tab still duplicating the current search terms when opening a new tab. However the search bar (search engine) was not altered and still displays the same value on each tab.

This is especially irritating since the search bar is located within the tab just like the URL bar is since quite long time. So users might expect the value there to be tab-specific.

Steps to reproduce:
- Just open any tab.
- Enter search term in search bar.
- On new tab enter another search term.
- Switch back to first tab.


Actual results:

- Search terms on first tab will display equal value as entered on any other tab.


Expected results:

When a tab is created it should perhaps inherit the search terms from its parent (just like the find bar is right now) but if the value is changed it should not change a global value but instead keep track of the search bar value on each tab individually.