Firefox/Projects/Tab Matches in Awesomebar

Overview

Sprint lead: gavin
Sprinters: gavin, faaborg

Description

When an awesomebar result matches the URL of an already open tab, it should indicate that and allow the user to switch to that tab instead of duplicating it.

• Aza has some suggestions
• So does Madhava
• Boriss is interested (& happy to give unsolicited opinions)

Goals / Use Cases

• Reduce the number of unintentionally created duplicate tabs in the users large tab set
• Allow users to create duplicate tabs if they actually intend to have duplicates
• Allow users to search for specific tabs, which should be faster than a browser operation with the all tabs control, and is fully integrated into our central UI for searching, the awesome bar (as oppose to creating another field).

Non Goals

• Promote tab searching over other types of revisitation (for instance placing all of the tab results on top)
• Overly complicate the current design of the awesome bar (though things like the introduction of additional icons, arrows, or moving the focus right/left in addition to up/down)

Design