Improve display of location bar results
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Status
| Improve display of location bar results | |
| Stage | Development |
| Status | In progress |
| Release target | Firefox 17 |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | Development in progress. Some restyling landed in 16. Larger favicons (using representive color for 16px ones) in progress. |
Team
| Product manager | Asa Dotzler |
| Directly Responsible Individual | Stephen Horlander |
| Lead engineer | Andrew Hurle |
| Security lead | ` |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | Virgil Dicu |
| UX lead | Stephen Horlander |
| Product marketing lead | ` |
| Operations lead | ` |
| Additional members | Matthew Noorenberghe |
Open issues/risks
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Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
The current location bar results feel heavy, busy, hard to scan and have not kept pace with system look and feel.
By streamlining and enhancing the results we aim to increase readability and the improve the appearance.
This feature falls primarily in the Discover category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)
2. Users & use cases
Targets all users of the location bar.
3. Dependencies
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4. Requirements
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Non-goals
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Stage 2: Design
5. Functional specification
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6. User experience design
Some of the elements we want to improve:
- 32x32px icons
- Better URL scan-ability
- No use of bold, since it shifts the content,
- More whitespace
- No separator line
- Ability to delete entry on hover
- Remove scrollbar (height of dropdown increases to show all results returned [same limit])
- Semi-transparent background
Stage 3: Planning
7. Implementation plan
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8. Reviews
Security review
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Privacy review
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Localization review
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Accessibility
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Quality Assurance review
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Operations review
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Stage 4: Development
9. Implementation
- [DONE] bug 587909 - Improve the visual style of location bar results
- bug 634139 - Need the ability to extract the most representative color from a favicon
- bug 768703 - Use 32x32 favicons in location bar results
- bug 751712 - Add support for HTML5 sizes attribute in <link rel=icon>
- bug 675818 - Add delete button to awesome bar result matches (May postpone because of bug 767254.
- [DONE] bug 583683 - Show all awesomebar results without scrolling
Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
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Feature details
| Priority | P2 |
| Rank | 999 |
| Theme / Goal | Experience |
| Roadmap | User Experience |
| Secondary roadmap | ` |
| Feature list | Desktop |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | Desktop front-end |
Team status notes
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | sec-review-unnecessary | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | Test Plan |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |