Ability to set the position of the search bar

[Cheap-Skate]

As a user I would like to have the ability to set the position of the search bar.

User problem:

URL bar is at bottom of screen
Tap URL bar to edit URL
URL bar moves to very very top of screen
Trying to move insertion cursor requires long reach upwards, can't do it one handed
Kind of defeats the idea of having URL bar at bottom of screen :) :)

Reference-browser does it correctly, during URL editing, URL bar stays at the bottom of the page content just above the keyboard

Please try to put as much of the user interaction as possible near the bottom of the screen

Galaxy S7
Android 8.0.0

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task

[Cheap-Skate]

An example:
Google navigates me to https://mobile.reuters.com
I want to look at https://uk.mobile.reuters.com
I tap on the URL https://mobile.reuters.com with the intention of editing it
the URL moves to the very top of the screen
I want to move the insertion cursor to insert the uk.

Can't do it one handed, it's too far to reach . Which is a PITA.

reference-browser is better, I can do it one handed :)

Keep up the good work

[boek]

Hey @Cheap-Skate, thank you for the report!

This conversation has come up a couple of time and we've added the code to change the position of the search bar that is currently guarded by an A/B experiment.

I'm not sure what will end up being the default, but we should at least put a preference in to let a user customize the position 👍

[Cheap-Skate]

Now that's service ;) Thanks. More search UI moans incoming, take cover!

[Lululalu]

As an user I like the way Fenix works, better than RB IMO. The toolbar on the bottom while typing makes me fell dizzy. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I am affected by motion sickness.

[mheubusch]

@vesta0 Can we move this to post-MVP for now?

[vesta0]

Moved to post-mvp.

[lime124]

@apbitner for consideration while doing explorations of top nav/bottom nav stuff in #3651

[vesta0]

This will be addressed by #5694