Hey folks,
Searched around the internet and couldn't find anyone talking about this, so I might as well start a thread.
Scotch Bonnet, however that name came about, seems to be a project around implementing a set of usability improvements to the urlbar and related search functionalities. Note that I'm not affiliated with Mozilla, and could be totally missing the mark.
You can try a preview by setting "browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride" to true in about:config.
Changes I've gathered include:
- Quick searching on current website / secondary actions (e.g. when on YouTube, search videos straight from the urlbar in two taps)
- Dropdown search button on the urlbar (lets you pick a method for a one-time search)
- Search keywords/aliases (e.g. type @history to search browser history)
I think there's other stuff, but it doesn't affect user experience as much as these.
Who else tried Scotch Bonnet? Any thoughts you'd like to share on it? Anything I got wrong?
For example, here are mine:
I really like the secondary actions—Ctrl+L has never seen so much use. Didn't know so many websites provided whatever interface Firefox uses to get search functionality, but it's a lovely thing. While I don't use the keywords that much, I think they're a nice addition, spares me from having to memorize more symbols (I only ever remembered ^ for history). Ironically, the only thing I'm not a fan of is the search button because it... looks a bit ugly. The DDG logo is a weird splash of orange in my otherwise monochrome urlbar, which bothers me a little, silly as that sounds.
