Firefox/Features/Generic Thumbnail Service

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Status

Generic Thumbnail Service
Stage	Shipped
Status	Complete
Release target	Firefox 12
Health	OK
Status note	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497543

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Team

Product manager	`
Directly Responsible Individual	`
Lead engineer	Tim Taubert
Security lead	`
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	`
UX lead	Alex Limi
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Firefox should provide a generic thumbnail service, accessible from Panorama, Fennec, Areo Peek, Tab Previews, Places and of course add-ons.

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

• one thumbnail service for all features
• caching across the whole browser
• edge-case handling at one place not re-implemented for every feature

Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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• edge-case handling at one place not re-implemented for every feature

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Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	999
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Roadmap	Platform
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Team status notes

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Security	sec-review-needed	Full Query ID Summary Priority Status 755950 SecReview: Provide a thumbnail service -- RESOLVED 1 Total; 0 Open (0%); 1 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);
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Full Query

ID	Summary	Priority	Status
755950	SecReview: Provide a thumbnail service	--	RESOLVED

1 Total; 0 Open (0%); 1 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

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It's probably good to coalesce prior art on this.

Panorama: TBD

F1: In a social context, thumbnailing comes in two flavors:

1. thumbnail a full page, as in this code
2. look for images which the content author wants to be used as the thumbnail in social networks for example, and thumbnail them (because they're likely more compelling and symbolic of the page than the full page thumbnailed). This is more subtle code, which should use page metadata (e.g. opengraph markup) to identify likely good images. See the current code used in f1 for an example.

Speed Dial Based on F1: Very quickly hacked together using the F1 feature and caching it into moz_annos.