FIG. 5A illustrates device 100, with device status bar 502 and application user interface 504 displayed on touch screen 112. Device status bar 502 displays status information about device 100, such as the current time, wireless signal strength, battery power remaining, etc. In some embodiments, device status bar 502 includes one or more of: signal strength indicator(s) 402, time 404, Bluetooth indicator 405, and battery status indicator 406.
Application user interface 504 is a user interface for an application (e.g., any of the modules or widgets described above with reference to FIGS. 1A, 3, and 4A) in device 100. In some embodiments, as explained in the examples below, the application is a web browser (e.g., browser module 147). In some embodiments, the application is an application other than a web browser (e.g., virtually any application with searchable content that displays a search input field or other application input field adjacent to the device status bar).
Application user interface 504 also includes control bar 512. Control bar 512 includes one or more buttons for activating various functions of the web browser application. For example, control bar 512 includes one or more of: a back control (to navigate to prior content within a content sequence (e.g., a browsing history)), a forward control (to navigate to subsequent content within a content sequence), a content sharing control, a bookmarks and history control, and a new window/tab control. Depending on the situation, one or more controls in control bar 512 may be disabled or control bar 512 may be hidden altogether.