On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:35:16AM -0000, Jess Miller wrote: > The problems I have with Multisearch: > > 1) The name of the extension is not easily related to its > effect. "Multisearch" does affect searches, but only Google > searches. To me, it sounds more like "something that adds a pack of > search options" than "something that changes a standard Google > search into a branded one and changes your new tab start page."
Names are always difficult and are non-trivial to decide on; and we didn't spend much time thinking about the name for something that is just used during alpha3-4 cycle to understand better how our users (would) use the various search places. > 2) Multisearch makes it impossible, while enabled, to do a "clean" > Google search from the search bar and takes over the Google icon > while not allowing access to Google functionality that users > expect. If the Ubuntu custom search was installed as one option > among others, this would be less frustrating. It is also frustrating > because determining the cause is the "Multisearch" add-on is > difficult because of its unhelpful name, and because it is not a > user-installed add-on so a user does not expect to need to look > there. The custom search thing is currently the easiest way for us to gather the data we want to get from this experiment. > 3) Replacing the about:blank page with the Ubuntu custom search when > a new tab is opened is simply tacky. More often than not, I have a > particular website in mind for my new tab. Placing the custom search > there is unexpected and disruptive. It is unnecessary visual > clutter. It also reads as pushy, in-your-face marketing for the > Google custom search. I don't see this particular action taken by > Multisearch as morally wrong (though many others do, and I would > argue that removing Google functionality while still identifying a > search with the Google icon IS wrong), simply irritating and > tacky. Personally, pushy marketing tactics as those used by Ubuntu > in the Multisearch add-on serve to drive me away immediately, > without any particular consideration as to the pros and cons of > something. A newtab implementation - if it was done - would be configurable and far more powerful than what you see now. The current state is just a quick pitch for the test we wanted to do in alpha3. To get a better idea on what a newtab could look like, check out mozilla's newtab effort: http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/03/new-tab-page-proposed-design-principles-and-prototype/ http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/03/firefox-new-tab-next-iteration/ - Alexander -- multisearch add on blocks the functionality of firefox location bar https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/402767 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
