Improved missing plugin experience
Status
| Improved missing plugin experience | |
| Stage | Planning |
| Status | In progress |
| Release target | ` |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | ` |
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Team
| Product manager | Chris Lee |
| Directly Responsible Individual | Justin Dolske |
| Lead engineer | ` |
| Security lead | ` |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | Paul Silaghi |
| 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
Our current experience when a plugin is missing is pretty abysmal, and rarely works for anything else than a very small set of plugins. We want to fix the experience for the small set of plugins that have a lot of users, and stop pretending to supply an auto-detect service for the others.
This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)
2. Users & use cases
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3. Dependencies
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4. Requirements
- Ability to detect and point to relevant locations for the major plugins
- PFS does this
- Mozilla needs to host permanent redirect URLs for this, so we can change quickly, should downstream providers suddenly change their URLs or similar
- PFS basically does this.
- bug 268936 - It should be possible to say "Don't ask me to install this plugin again"
- We should never imply that installing a plugin is absolutely necessary for the browser to function (like we kind of do today), but rather that plugins are required for certain types of content
- bug 678707 - We should label which plugins you'll end up downloading/installing in the location where we show the "Missing Plugin" message. Right now, you don't know until you go ahead and start the process
- bug 264254 (essentially WONTFIX) - We want to stop using Plugin Finder Service, and instead hardcode the small list of plugins we care about to simplify the code and maintenance burden
- We are maintaining plugin data for plugincheck anyways
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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This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)
|Feature users and use cases=`
|Feature dependencies=`
|Feature requirements=* Ability to detect and point to relevant locations for the major plugins
- PFS does this
- Mozilla needs to host permanent redirect URLs for this, so we can change quickly, should downstream providers suddenly change their URLs or similar
- PFS basically does this.
- bug 268936 - It should be possible to say "Don't ask me to install this plugin again"
- We should never imply that installing a plugin is absolutely necessary for the browser to function (like we kind of do today), but rather that plugins are required for certain types of content
- bug 678707 - We should label which plugins you'll end up downloading/installing in the location where we show the "Missing Plugin" message. Right now, you don't know until you go ahead and start the process
- bug 264254 (essentially WONTFIX) - We want to stop using Plugin Finder Service, and instead hardcode the small list of plugins we care about to simplify the code and maintenance burden
- We are maintaining plugin data for plugincheck anyways
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Feature details
| Priority | P2 |
| Rank | 2 |
| Theme / Goal | Experience |
| Roadmap | User Experience |
| Secondary roadmap | ` |
| Feature list | Desktop |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | Desktop front-end |
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Team status notes
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | ` | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
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