When the New Tab Page has the keyboard open, the keyboard should be easy to dismiss

[brampitoyo]

Current

To see “the rest of the New Tab Page” and dismiss the keyboard, people may only use the system back button/gesture.

Proposal

People may either use the system back button/gesture, or simply swipe up/down the area that’s not covered by the keyboard.

We’ve “pre-committed” people to the Search/URL path by auto-selecting the address bar on NTP, so let’s not make them “commit to search 100%” until they’ve typed a character into the address bar. Give them an easy way to exit out and see “the rest of the NTP”.

People can dismiss the keyboard by simply swiping up or down the NTP area. When the keyboard is dismissed, the address bar returns to its initial/unselected position and the rest of the NTP shows up in full.

This should work as long as nothing has been typed into the address bar.

Before swiping up/down	After swiping up/down

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When a keyword has been entered into the address bar, we assume that people have “committed to search 100%”, so swiping up or down won’t exit out of the address bar. It will just allow them to see more suggestions.

The current search results ordering is not changed: we are keeping top-to-bottom.

After entering keyword	After swiping up/down

And just as our behaviour today, tap/gesture back once is still the equivalent of exiting out of the search screen. The keyboard dismisses, the address bar returns to its initial/unselected position and the rest of the NTP shows up in full.

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[data-sync-user]

➤ Elise Richards commented:

🚩 Flag added

Blocked on impl in #13052

[vesta0]

@brampitoyo is this work completed? Can we close this issue?

[brampitoyo]

@vesta0 Yes. This work is now completed. Let’s close this issue.