Test Pilot/Universal Search

Overview

Search and the way you navigate to websites is the core of all browsers. We want to better understand how users use the:

• location (awesome) bar
• the search field
• open up common sites
• find sites in their history
• how they find and navigate to new sites.

Road Map

M1. Make it easier to update and A/B test the location bar drop down

• Use HTML5/JS/CSS
• Enable A/B testing, fractional deployment
• Enable remote updating of the content and layout
  • A base layout will ship with Firefox binary but a newer version can be fetched and cached

Dependencies

• Need test and infrastructure that supports
  • Fractional deployment and metrics to validate release
  • Clear testing process and acceptance
  • Revert to last good version of iframe contents