Be able to disable "Searching for emojis [...] is disabled" in address/search bar

[Exagone313]

Background

When I try to search for keywords starting by emoji and press enter, it redirects me to this addon preferences and I loose my search keywords. My current workaround is to never put emoji as a first keyword, which is not desired (since the first keyword usually has a greater weight in search engines).

Proposed solution

Do not ask to enable this option when it is disabled.

Alternatives

• Add an option to disable this behavior in the preferences
• Only ask to enable it the first time

Additional context

Integration is disabled:

[rugk]

Yeah, I would also have liked that. Unfortunately, the keyword that triggers the search needs to be statically defined. See:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/user_interface/Omnibox#specifying_the_omnibox_customization

In our case, it is emoji:

awesome-emoji-picker/src/manifest.json

Line 26 in 26295d9

"keyword": "emoji"

I also doubt Mozilla will change this, as dynamically changing the keyword could be abused to intercept (all) search queries
(e.g. changing it to each letter of the alphabet or so).

So unfortunately, I have to say this issue is blocked, and I cannot really do anything here.

Alternative solutions

• • Use a less common keyword, which would less likely to be a problem in "usual search" when disabled.
    Problems: Would break existing user workflows and if the feature is desired a common keyword is really useful. (Given that if you just have to think about the keyword you need to enter it is possibly faster to use a real web search or so.)

[Exagone313]

@rugk In my case I could report this as a bug to Firefox, since I already entered a keyword (for a search engine). Though since they introduced search keyword being displayed differently than bookmark and add-on keywords, there is a difference in behavior. I'll need to make more tests before reporting.

Also I have keyword.enabled=false, it may be responsible to this behavior (it is not fully supported).

I don't mind hacking my own Firefox for my own usage, I have experience on (and the CPU/memory for) building Firefox.

[tdulcet]

In my case I could report this as a bug to Firefox, since I already entered a keyword (for a search engine).

Yeah, I would agree that this is a Firefox bug, as users should not be able to use multiple keywords at once. Please do report it to them if you can.

the keyword that triggers the search needs to be statically defined

See bug 1375453 for allowing the user to change the keyword. There are actually a lot of known issues with this feature, including that it does not work in private windows (bug 1779400) and it can only show a fixed number of suggestions (bug 1375252).

[rugk]

Yeah, I would agree that this is a Firefox bug, as users should not be able to use multiple keywords at once. Please do report it to them if you can.

Did you find the time to do this, @Exagone313? I totally agree, multiple keywords is not really useful/should not be possible.

[Exagone313]

Did you find the time to do this, @Exagone313?

I didn't, but thanks for reminding me. 😅

[Exagone313]

I just created it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1796788

[hockdudu]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1815819 was fixed. This doesn't solve our issue completely, but the suggestion doesn't come anymore when the search is prefixed with @google or ?.

[Exagone313]

Personally, I think the issue is now fixed in Firefox 130.

This doesn't solve our issue completely

@hockdudu What do you think still need to be fixed?

[rugk]

Okay https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e0b29efee642 reads like you can now at least not do enter two keywords at once.

More could be done like allowing users to change they keyword. You could then change it to anything else to not let it interfere with whatever you type in the omnibox.

[Exagone313]

I think this needs a separate issue. I'm closing the present one, but feel free to re-open it if you think something else is missing.