Improve display of location bar results

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
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Engineering team	Desktop front-end

Team status notes

	status	notes
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Engineering	`	`
Security	sec-review-unnecessary	`
Privacy	`	`
Localization	`	`
Accessibility	`	`
Quality assurance	`	Test Plan
User experience	`	`
Product marketing	`	`
Operations	`	`