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