Introduction

Universal Search is a set of interconnected components in Firefox to help connect users more directly with the content they've found or want to find on the web.

Our first product milestone is a unified location and search experience coupled with an augmented places database.

Road Map

Baseline Metrics

In order to establish a comparative baseline against which to test our prototypes, we need 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.

Universal Search Metrics

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

Resources

Repos

Universal Search Content: https://github.com/mozilla/universal-search-content/
Universal Search Gecko Dev: https://github.com/mozilla/universal-search-gecko-dev

Communication

IRC: #universal-search
Mailing List: universal-search@mozilla.com

People

Lead: Nick Chapman
Product Manager: Bill Maggs
Program Manager: Edwin Wong
Engineering: Jared Hirsch, Les Orchard
UX: Bryan Bell, John Gruen

Test Pilot/Universal Search

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