+dev-gaia I only just came across this thread as I don't follow dev-platform very closely, dev-gaia is a better place to discuss issues about Gaia. Comments inline...
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Karl Dubost <kdub...@mozilla.com> wrote: > In Firefox 2.2.0, each time you try to enter a letter, there are a list of > icons displayed which seems to be delivered by Everything.me. > Note: This is the case for 2.1, the UI could change in 2.2. > > I see two issues: > > 1. experience-wise it is annoying to have the flickering of icons for each > letter typed. > I agree, and I think this is something we can improve through UI changes and better caching in 2.2. In the old browser app we kept a local cache of icons in IndexedDB and kept a "result cache" of results in memory as you type to help with performance. The new search app doesn't cache things so explicitly which I think harms performance, but the search app is quite different because only one of the results is local (from browsing history), the rest come over the network from EverythingMe and Firefox Marketplace. This also has data consumption implications. A student from Bangladesh pointed out to me that he is charged to "visit free web sites like Facebook Zero" because typing in a URL uses data. > 2. It seems to be a change of policy in terms of sharing data the user > type in the URL bar. Is there a possibility to put that off and not having > whatever you type up there to be sent somewhere the user does not expect? > See the discussion in bug 1082787. As I understand it, the privacy team has signed off on this. It's only for one trusted partner whose privacy policy has been reviewed, the user is informed of this behaviour on first use, and are able to turn the feature off in Settings (which they weren't able to do in 2.0). That's a good thing because from 2.1 this search bar doubles as your URL bar. I'm personally not keen on some parts of this design having dogfooded it for a while, and I hope we can improve things in 2.2. I know that UX are exploring different search UI concepts I think there are improvements we can make on the engineering side too. Personally I would have a preference for more local results from browsing history as you type, and hide most of the remote results behind an explicit web search by the user. But let's see what UX come up with :) > Maybe there are bugs for this. > See bug 1082787 for the privacy issue. I'm not sure if there are bugs filed yet for changes to the search UI in 2.2. Stay tuned. Ben _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
