Top Hits should only show websites that reflect my own browsing behavior. If that's too much to ask,
This seems subjective and does not exactly tell us what it means and implementation details?
[1]: Turns out Safari behaves the same way.
Orion follows Apple's guidance for many things as we want Orion to feel as a native app.
This seems subjective
Well, yeah, that's the point. I'm giving feedback about my own experiences as a user, based on what I've come to expect from other browsers. I think the key thing to note, based on this thread, is that I'm not alone.
we want Orion to feel as a native app
And it does an amazing job of that, truly! That said, I use Orion precisely because it's not Safari, a browser I've tried to like many times, invariably to come to the conclusion that Safari feels like a browser designed by a team that would much rather have you install an app from the App Store than use a web app.
I have no data to back this up, but I think it's fair to guess that the kinds of people that try out (and evangelize) less-known browsers belong to the class of 'power users'. It strikes me as an odd strategy to take design cues from a browser that offers little to such users.
implementation details
I'm a software engineer with plenty of experience in search, ranking, fuzzy matching algos, and the like. I'd be happy to brainstorm.
Actionable solutions might be:
That is fair.
I think the key thing to note, based on this thread, is that I'm not alone.
I hope you can appreciate that this has only 3 upvotes, is one out of 2000+ issues posted on this forum, and our team is only 3 devs. We are happy to do quick changes (if you can define one that would be great) but any sort of prolonged dev time competes with everything else.
Vlad
100% understand. I'm a small-team dev myself with a backlog that grows faster than can be completed. So no worries.
Thanks for changing the status of this issue. The very 'quickest' change I can think of is to make the search scope of 'Top Hits' configurable, in the same way that on macOS one can configure where Spotlight should search. A preconfigured list of websites can be one of the options, alongside history, bookmarks, etc.
(But, with zero knowledge of the code base, I have no idea if that's actually a quick change.)
Anyway, I'm going to leave it at this for now, so you can focus on other issues. Let me know if you or any of the devs want to pick up the thread again.
Vlad 'gm' matches 'Gmail' as a part of word inside the title. The domain where gmail lives does not correspond to anything similar.
I haven't read this full thread but my 2 cents are that Orion should remember what I typed into the address bar even if it redirects to another domain.
That is what Chrome does: if I type gmail.com and it redirects to mail.google.com, well, I can still then type gm and it'll fill gmail.com.
It also remembers mail.google.com, of course...
...but it remembers that I've used gmail.com in order to get there.
So it doesn't only fill domains from my history - it has a separate index of every domain I've manually typed into the address bar that redirects somewhere else.
Vlad what algorithm should Orion use to surface it.
see above ^
Vlad this has only 3 upvotes
5 now :)
