Firefox/Search

Firefox Desktop Search and Navigation Team

Meetings

Status update

Day of week	Pacific Time	Eastern Time	UTC	Central European Time
Mondays	10:00AM - 10:30AM	1:00PM - 1:30PM	6:00PM - 6:30PM	7:00PM - 7:30PM

• Frequency: One meeting per week on Monday.
• Duration: 30 min
• Vidyo Room: searchmeeting
• IRC: #ffsearch, #fx-team, #developers

Prioritization

• P1: Must Have - development occurring in the current release.
• P2: Should Have - targeted for the current release if production capacity exists.
• P3: Could Have - planned for development in an upcoming release.
• P5: Will Have - not scheduled for any particular release, patches accepted.

Bugzilla

Bug Modifications - Team Members

Selecting a New Bug for the Current Release

1. Select any 'P1' bug which is currently unassigned and not blocked on a dependency. If no 'P1' bugs are available then select from the available 'P2' bugs, and so on.
2. Add the following if not already present:

• [ffsearch] whiteboard tag.
• QE verification flag.

Adding a New Bug to the Backlog

1. Add the [ffsearch] whiteboard tag.
2. Set the bug as a dependency of a user story bug or a meta bug if applicable.
3. The bug priority will be set during the Weekly Meeting:

• 'P1': Must Have - development occurring in the current release.
• 'P2': Should Have - targeted for next release.
• 'P3': Could Have - planned for development in an upcoming release.
• 'P5': Will Have - not scheduled for any particular release, patches accepted.

Submitting a Bug for Triage

1. Add the [triage] whiteboard tag.
2. Leave the priority field empty (--).

Triage
Collection of work waiting for the team to review and determine if it should be included in the Product Backlog: No results. 0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Releases

Current Release
P1: Must Have - development occurring in the current release. Duration: Tuesday January 24 - Monday March 6 No results. 0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Current Release: Completed

Full Query ID Summary Status Whiteboard Keywords Assigned to 1191130 Intermittent browser_contentSearchUI.js | Test timed out RESOLVED [stockwell fixed][fxsearch] intermittent-failure (inactive) Nihanth Subramanya [:nhnt11] 1211726 Pre-seed awesomebar (location bar) with a list of top web sites for better autocompletion on empty profiles RESOLVED [fxsearch][ui] Svetlana Orlik 1218324 Search engine "ask.com" couldn't be added to the existing list of search engines. VERIFIED [fxsearch] Mark Banner (:standard8) 1322747 Show https in autofill heuristic results RESOLVED [fxsearch] Mark Banner (:standard8) 1334844 Address bar uses most recently entered URL, not URL in bar, after using CTRL+ENTER VERIFIED [fxsearch] regression Marco Bonardo [:mak] 1335992 Search with default search engine stops working VERIFIED [fxsearch] regression, ux-consistency Drew Willcoxon :adw 1337682 using ctrl / shift + enter seems to save the URL to a hidden clipboard that populates when hitting enter (hard to describe). RESOLVED [fxsearch] Marco Bonardo [:mak] 1339497 firefox tries to load incorrect url if urlbar autocomplete suggests first-two-letters-duplicated hosts when input url contains % encoded components VERIFIED [fxsearch] regression Marco Bonardo [:mak] 1342946 MOZ_ASSERT(true) in toolkit/components/places/Database.cpp RESOLVED [fxsearch] Marco Bonardo [:mak] 1343507 Search settings button moves to its own line with 150% zoom follow-up VERIFIED [fxsearch] Drew Willcoxon :adw 10 Total; 0 Open (0%); 5 Resolved (50%); 5 Verified (50%);

Next Release
P2: Should Have - targeted for the current release if production capacity exists. Full Query ID Summary Status Whiteboard Keywords Assigned to 1393440 Investigate an alternative way to chunk async statements results notifications NEW [fxsearch] 1 Total; 1 Open (100%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Backlog

P3: Could Have - planned for development in an upcoming release. Full Query ID Summary Status Whiteboard Keywords Assigned to 346001 Should nsSearchService's loadListener implement nsIAuthPrompt? NEW [fxsearch] 348142 Escape key has different behavior between Address Bar and Search Bar NEW [fxsearch] 386205 Automatically resolve conflicts between existing user aliases and shipped/added ones NEW [fxsearch] 387070 Consider adding aliases/keywords to default/shipped search engines NEW [fxsearch][snt-scrubbed][search-parity] parity-chrome, parity-opera 408991 Find a way to efficiently extract bookmarks paths NEW [fxsearch] 519514 [meta] Add an asynchronous bookmarking API NEW [polish] [Snappy:p3][fxsearch] dev-doc-needed, meta, perf 643554 hard to bookmark redirects NEW [fxsearch] 661590 Repeated calls to location.hash = "#foo" cause large amounts of disk activity NEW [fxsearch][snt-scrubbed][places-performance] perf, perf:responsiveness 715336 Favicon is not stored if a new bookmark is added with history disabled NEW [fxsearch] 769557 search.sqlite should be removed from user profile NEW [fxsearch] 804695 search feature for history should have an option for date range NEW [fxsearch] 842280 Consider accents and umlauts for approximate search/matching NEW [qx][fxsearch] 933698 Investigate why browser_views_liveupdate.js works although it should probably be broken NEW [fxsearch] 1051082 Store homepage configuration outside of prefs NEW [hijacking][fxsearch] 1064098 Mac OS X: cmd-alt-F and cmd-K do not open a new window when no window is available NEW [fxsearch] 1089141 Provide some feedback for invalid uris entered in edit-bookmark dialog/pane NEW [fxsearch] 1093030 Proper solution for implementing "Cancel"/"Undo" in the bookmarks dialog and Star Panel NEW [fxsearch] 1109851 support the "multiple searches in a row with default engine" search case (for shoppers and researchers) NEW [fxsearch] 1154300 Searches via new tab searchbar executed with keyboard take into account the mouse position NEW [fxsearch] 1154835 whitespace should be stripped out of search engine names NEW [hijacking][fxsearch] 1194283 Expand Windows 10 search redirection to POST plugins NEW [fxsearch] addon-compat 1226613 Search plugins with a name that's very similar to the name of plugins we ship shouldn't get installed NEW [hijacking][fxsearch] 1226918 New location bar UI takes away the possibility to see and copy the actual url of bookmark if user types keyword in urlbar NEW [unifiedcomplete][fxsearch] 1229685 Search Aliases function only in address bar NEW [consistency][fxsearch] 1252184 Location bar fails to copy correct url if page haven't started loading properly (e.g. pending) NEW [fxsearch]read comment 2 first, [sng-scrubbed], [search-papercut] regression 1254971 First urlbar suggestion doesn't show favicons for visited sites when I type url NEW [fxsearch] 1260275 Urlbar doesn't show decoded url during page loading if I clicked a link NEW [fxsearch] 1269480 For a new profile, second character is lost when typing into the URL bar NEW [fxsearch] 1276124 Urlbar doesn't highlight search terms in result URLs NEW [fxsearch] blocked-ux 1299777 Awesomebar result items url font size too small NEW [fxsearch] regression 1304931 font size in location bar drop down on Linux makes em dash look misplaced NEW [fxsearch] 1308419 Clean up "keyword-search" Telemetry NEW [fxsearch] 1308716 Update the heuristic result contents for canonize url NEW [fxsearch] 1309354 Firefox adds http:// and / when browser.urlbar.trimURLs = false and keyword.enabled=false NEW [fxsearch] 1311292 If a one-off has focus, clicking a result/sugestion results in a search that is always made with default engine even if the "Search with.." says differently NEW [fxsearch] 1315674 Selecting a synced tab from the awesome bar should open a new tab rather than replacing the current tab, for consistency with "switch to tab" NEW [fxsearch] 1322022 Need test for location bar spoofing via drag and drop of broken javascript: URI NEW [needs test][fxsearch] csectype-spoof, reporter-external, sec-low 1327640 Tags field in "New bookmark" panel stays forever focused (illogical behavior) NEW [fxsearch] 1335467 Cleanup browser/components/preferences/in-content/search.js to remove the EngineStore object NEW [fxsearch] 1337397 Add mask-icon and average color support to favicons NEW [fxsearch] 1337409 Add more favicons telemetry NEW [fxsearch] 1340487 Use an FTS in Places NEW [fxsearch] 1340663 Figure out requirements to release top websites completion in the awesomebar NEW [fxsearch] 1341591 Create an automated way of generating the list of top sites we ship with Firefox NEW [fxsearch] 1342132 Location bar suggestions not having a title look bad NEW [fxsearch] 1356532 Try avoiding layout flushes in autocomplete::_handleOverflow NEW [fxsearch] perf:frontend, perf:responsiveness 1364415 leave location bar suggestions open when I middle click or ctrl click an item NEW [qx:spec][fxsearch] polish, ux-natural-mapping 1368442 Missing favicon from the first suggestion to visit a website NEW [fxsearch] 1373549 Re-enable browser_BrowserUITelemetry tests on non-e10s NEW [fxsearch] 1395542 Crash in AsyncShutdownTimeout | profile-before-change | Places Connection shutdown NEW [fxsearch] crash 1400521 Work needed to enable browser.bookmarks.openInTabClosesMenu by default NEW [fxsearch] 1402330 location bar "eyeglass" icon stays in location bar after editing the URL NEW [fxsearch] blocked-ux, papercut 1419545 Export mobile bookmarks when exporting as HTML NEW [fxsearch] 1421219 Investigate pre-filtering moz_historyvisits when beginTime and endTime are provided NEW [fxsearch] 1425240 urlbar/location bar/address bar text/URL not updated when its popup/panel is open and pushState or replaceState is called NEW [fxsearch] 1426359 Don't autofill/autocomplete and/or don't suggest on 404 and maybe other non-2xx errors NEW [fxsearch] 1429786 URI reserved characters []!'()* get decoded in the location bar but not re-encoded when the URL is submitted NEW [fxsearch] 1432432 url content is announced before the tab switch event NEW [fxsearch] 1433263 "Restore Default Search Engines" is misleading NEW [fxsearch] blocked-ux 1436954 Bookmarks and history sidebars and both address bars don't respect preference to open new tabs in background; they always open tabs in foreground/selected NEW [fxsearch] 1438908 Present preloaded top urls in the Address Bar in a non-confusing way NEW [fxsearch] 1440070 PlacesToolbar updateNodesVisibilityTimer should use promiseDocumentFlushed NEW [fxsearch] 1440242 [Intermittent] Bookmarks are not correctly sorted in the Sidebar NEW [fxsearch] 1441695 Remove synchronous Bookmarks::InsertBookmark NEW [fxsearch] 1441697 Remove synchronous Bookmarks::CreateFolder NEW [fxsearch] 1441698 Remove synchronous Bookmarks::Get/SetItemTitle NEW [fxsearch] 1441702 Remove synchronous Bookmarks::SetItemLastModified NEW [fxsearch] 1442182 Add automated test for "Links can be bookmarked via context menu " NEW [fxsearch] 1442188 Add automated test for "The items from the Bookmarks Toolbar can be sorted by name" NEW [fxsearch] 1442805 Performing a bookmark restore simultaneously on 2 sync-connected devices causes strange things to temporarily happen NEW [fxsearch] 1452700 Add motion to help discover where one click search engines are added NEW [fxsearch] 1454566 Create separator on top (instead of middle) after multiple bookmarks are selected NEW [fxsearch] 1455079 Make asyncHistory APIs take strings instead of nsIURI NEW [fxsearch] 1455952 Recent Highlights ignore browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabs NEW [fxsearch] 1463429 Investigate using GetQueryParamIterator and URLParams::Parse in or instead of TokenizeQueryString NEW [fxsearch] 1463443 Intermittent browser/components/places/tests/browser/browser_toolbar_overflow.js | The bookmark node should be visible - "" == "visible" - JS frame :: chrome://mochitests/content/browser/browser/components/places/tests/browser/browser_toolbar_overflow.js NEW [fxsearch][test disabled on linux32 debug] intermittent-failure, leave-open 1467608 Evaluate postponing results that match on the query string NEW [fxsearch] 1473861 Let PlacesCommandHook.bookmarkLink open a doorhanger instead of a modal dialog NEW [fxsearch] 1474521 Forcibly run idle maintenance if we were unable to run it for a while NEW [fxsearch] 1476517 Add new telemetry probes for autofill NEW [fxsearch] 1477934 Figure out a way to implement hasChildren on tags NEW [fxsearch] 1477942 [meta] A modular re-implementation of the Awesomebar results list NEW [fxsearch] meta 1477944 [meta] Model NEW [fxsearch] meta 1479083 URL bar seems to trigger multiple layouts when browser window is resized at certain sizes NEW [fxsearch] perf, perf:frontend 1487925 Race condition in opening the bookmarking popup NEW [fxsearch] 1494468 Autofill tests should use more realistic history ASSIGNED [fxsearch][sng] Drew Willcoxon :adw 1496772 [meta] Search @ keyword/alias/shortcut improvements NEW [fxsearch] meta 1497561 Bookmark star and confirmation animations are played at the same time NEW [fxsearch] 1502397 When a WebExtension keyword is searched for, only query the specific WebExtension provider NEW [fxsearch] 1518529 Bookmarks saved for non-secure sites (http) don't show for secure (https) sites NEW [fxsearch] 1524190 Provide better search suggestions when a search alias is used NEW [fxsearch] 1531273 SEARCH_COUNTS isn't incremented for keyword searches in the urlbar when the results list is closed NEW [fxsearch] 1557445 Strategy to identify and remove invalid urls NEW [fxsearch] 93 Total; 93 Open (100%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Will Accept Patches

P5: Will Have - not scheduled for any particular release, patches accepted. Full Query ID Summary Status Whiteboard Keywords Assigned to 236587 Allow bookmark/search keyword searches from the search bar / integrate toolbar and bookmark keyword searches NEW [fxsearch] 248955 search box should be tab-specific (content should not persist when switching tabs) NEW [fxsearch] 253331 Search bar's text should be cleared after a search is performed ASSIGNED [fxsearch] blocked-ux, polish, privacy Dan M 264199 Make Search Toolbar history easier to discover NEW [fxsearch] 274432 When dragging text to search bar, mouse over search engine should show list of search engines, and allow dropping text onto one to search that engine NEW [fxsearch] 275193 Clear Search Button NEW [fxsearch] 335448 Autodetect repeated use of a search field, and ask the user if they want that engine added to the browser search box NEW [gsoc][fxsearch] 354950 OpenSearch support doesn't honour 'pageOffset' and 'indexOffset' attributes of description NEW [fxsearch] 360907 Search current site with OpenSearch (use a site's search provider without installing it) NEW [fxsearch] 386591 Support "result URLs" for search suggestion results (OpenSearch) NEW [fxsearch] 414849 Support middle-click paste and go behaviour on search icon NEW [fxsearch] 529345 need to ensure that updateIntervals are not negative NEW [fxsearch] 565740 Clear the chrome search field input when navigated away from the results page, and make it tab-specific NEW [target-betaN] [Advo][fxsearch] polish, privacy 597237 "Paste & Go" should turn into "Paste & Search" when contents of the clipboard aren't a URI ASSIGNED [fxsearch][sng] Daisuke Akatsuka (:daisuke) 765619 Add a preference to open the tab with search bar results in the background NEW [fxsearch] 980244 Clearing search bar form history doesn't provide any visible feedback NEW [bug][fxsearch] 1046943 SearchSuggestionController should move remote results that are also in form history to the local results NEW [suggestions][bug][fxsearch] 1053664 Bookmarks Menu collapses when collapsing a bookmark folder NEW [fxsearch] 1083465 [meta]Remove synchronous bookmarks API NEW [fxsearch] meta, perf 1104141 Deleting "Visit XYZ" doesn't delete the History-entry NEW [fxsearch] 1104738 The search bar blocks the overflow toolbar panel's dismissal if a search is performed via the arrow NEW [fxsearch] 1109839 Let the search engine selection work per tab NEW [fxsearch] 1120642 Add tests for the opensearch discovery support in the new search bar NEW [fxsearch] 1124678 Changing default search-engine with Ctrl+mousewheel closes and reopens search-panel NEW [ui][fxsearch] 1124747 closing the search panel with (shift+)<tab> doesn't revert the searchbox's text field value to what the user typed NEW [ui][fxsearch] 1126804 The search panel appears above the bookmarks panel NEW [ui][fxsearch] 1136131 Provide access to all search providers in context menu selection NEW [ui][fxsearch] 1138434 Search bar is ignoring language listed in opensearch definition NEW [fxsearch] 1172444 Update searchbar entries from the current search result page NEW [fxsearch] 1199577 Whole text in url/search bar selection while changing keyboard layout UNCONFIRMED [fxsearch] 1204242 There's no way to determine whether I should press Ctrl+Up or Ctrl+Down to set the desired search engine as default one NEW [fxsearch] 1206968 One-click search button right-click menu: "search in new tab" logic should be inverted if browser.search.openintab is true NEW [fxsearch] 1233289 Focusing the searchbar shouldn't refetch suggestions NEW [fxsearch] privacy 1242906 On about:home, shift+backspace on a search suggestion from history should remove it from the history NEW consistency [fxsearch] 1253485 Location bar doesn't preserve scroll position of the url after switching tabs NEW [fxsearch] parity-chrome 1257642 Location bar displays many duplicates in suggestions when I delete items NEW [fxsearch] regression 1272292 Show default search engine in search field again NEW [fxsearch] blocked-ux 1290869 Allow the disabling of search history separately from other history NEW [fxsearch] 1293938 Search bar popup displays clock icons incorrectly if the search history has more than 7 candidates NEW [fxsearch] 1294954 Only one tag in awesome bar's suggestions. NEW [fxsearch] 1309930 [meta] Make all bookmarks syncable NEW [fxsearch] meta 1311678 Entering URL without hitting Enter in location bar then tearing the tab deletes the entered URL NEW [fxsearch] 1337404 Build ico files on-the-fly NEW [fxsearch] 1345133 Pressing ":" on an autofilled domain should directly move to editing the port number NEW [fxsearch] papercut 1354264 [meta][userstory] Ship v1 of Pre-populated topsites in Awesome Bar NEW [fxsearch] meta 1354268 Ability to localize the list of top sites pre-populated in the Awesome Bar REOPENED [fxsearch] 1356435 Styling bookmark item is no longer available NEW [fxsearch] regression 1357533 Moused-over urlbar results should turn gray only after you move the mouse ASSIGNED [fxsearch] Drew Willcoxon :adw 1359487 The root domain icon is preferred if it has an higher resolution than the local page favicon NEW [fxsearch][sng] nightly-community, regression, reproducible, ux-consistency 1360188 Navigating using Left/Right keys through the one-off buttons is not possible in about:home and about:newtab NEW [fxsearch] 1405242 [meta] Improve performance of bookmarks batch operations with Async Transactions NEW [fxsearch] meta, nightly-community, perf, regression 1410877 [meta] Improve the reliability of Places and the storage subsystem NEW [fxsearch] meta 1414617 Add option for the size of labels in bookmark toolbar NEW [fxsearch] dupeme 1417722 Control-option-B and -F don't work in URL bar NEW [fxsearch] 1420090 Add mouse-over to show properties of bookmark/bookmark folder in bookmark toolbar NEW [fxsearch] 1421431 Problems in Firefox with an encoded backslash in url. UNCONFIRMED [fxsearch] 1421562 Reduce the amount of I/O done by Places [meta] NEW [fxsearch] meta 1422464 collapse in bookmarks sidebar may cause unexpected folder expanded/collapsed NEW [fxsearch] 1422566 Add option to create new bookmark folder in library using "Ctrl+Shift+N" NEW [fxsearch] 1423334 The SSL lock icon's entrance/appearance should match the animated entrance of the tracking protection shield icon NEW [fxsearch] uiwanted 1423389 Favicons do not initially appear on tabs after refreshing profile NEW [fxsearch] 1425288 [meta] Re-enable tests disabled due to intermittent failures NEW [fxsearch] meta 1425299 [meta] Remove technical debt NEW [fxsearch] meta 1425797 Add "Open as URL in new tab" from Address bar NEW [fxsearch] 1427282 One-off search engine buttons in urlbar are hard to click as the popup changes height NEW [fxsearch] 1427535 Address bar/Location bar/urlbar drops first few letters when typing immediately after opening a new tab with a custom new-tab URL NEW [fxsearch][snt-scrubbed] papercut 1429020 All text in address bar is selected on tab change NEW [fxsearch] papercut 1439081 Library provides no feedback that a batch bookmark move is in progress NEW [fxsearch] 1439195 Library does not enforce proper sequencing of cursor and delete key reactions NEW [fxsearch] 1441561 Address bar defaults back to wrong url on new input NEW [fxsearch] 1442977 Add a test for drag-and-drop in Places menus NEW [fxsearch][snt-scrubbed][places-testing] 1448913 [meta] Remove nsNavBookmarks.cpp and merge with nsNavHistory / Bookmarks.jsm NEW [fxsearch] meta 1453636 Search drop-down list is mixed up if the user has less than five bookmarks NEW [fxsearch] 1457069 Title and favicon of OpenSearch engines offered by pages do not necessarily match title and favicon they're installed with (add search engine re-appears) NEW [fxsearch] 1493543 Improve how the new autofill algorithm handles redirects NEW [fxsearch] 1526372 urlbarBindings' blur event handler shouldn't import ExtensionSearchHandler.jsm NEW [fxsearch] perf 76 Total; 76 Open (100%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

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