Firefox/Features/UX Priorities

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Want help make the user experience of Firefox the best it can be? Here are the top priorities identified by the UX team. They are in order of priority, grouped under new features, revised features, and polish/cleanup.

If you want to help out with any of these, get in touch with Alex Limi to coordinate, limi@mozilla.com.

New features

1. Sharing
2. Identity
3. Home tab
4. New tab page
5. Taskbar Web Apps
6. In-content preferences (including unifying customization/appearance/themes, eliminating unneeded windows)
7. In-browser preview + Save of common content (PDF, cd:attachment, mp3, etc)
8. Add-ons: Standardized toolbar/doorhanger (pane) support

Feature revision

1. Install/Update: Channel switcher
2. Install/Update: Silent updates & on shutdown where we can't do silent
3. User control of extensions & plugins
4. Panorama groups should persist, load on-demand
5. In-line autocomplete (responsiveness!)
6. Opt-in activation for plugins that are unknown/slow (similar to Flashblock), better missing plugin experience, ability to soft-block 0-day using click2play
7. Improved progress indicator (perception of speed)
8. Panorama improvements
9. Download Manager
10. Find-in-page cleanup
11. OS X 10.7 features: scrollbar, full screen mode, three-finger gestures
12. Self-sharing feature for F1, aka. "For Later"
13. Install/Update: Mac improvements
14. Install/Update: Stub installer
15. Install/Update: Easier fresh install
16. Default UI for contentEditable, cleanup, make it output better code
17. Improved discovery pane in add-ons manager
18. Backgrounds and themes view in the add-ons manager/live preview
19. Sync Promotion
20. Private browsing windows open without restart
21. Private browsing theme change (darkened)
22. Import dialog doesn't offer Sync import or Chrome import

Polish/cleanup

1. Overall UI responsiveness and drawing operations
2. Tab animations, tab close behavior, tab open behavior, tab detach, eliminate redundant title text
3. Location/Search bar cleanup
4. App tabs: chromeless app tabs
5. App tabs: Global app tabs
6. AwesomeBar results visual design
7. File type cursors
8. Papercuts: Flash stealing focus, copy/paste rich vs plain text
9. Doorhangers + modal dialogs cleanup, keep eliminating notifications (e.g. update -> Home tab)
10. Expose prefs that made it too late (tabs-on-demand, DNT, always restore tabs)
11. Improved about:sessionrestore
12. Context menu cleanup
13. Extract PDF to main menu (windows)
14. Better about:config
15. Remove the flash message on new tab on open
16. full screen on windows (display the firefox button, normal window controls)
17. Update default fonts

Infrastructure (with no UI)

Projects we care about that have UX impact, but little to no UI.

1. Bundle Flash with Firefox
2. JägerMonkey for UI
3. Resource Packages
4. jemalloc support on Mac
5. Reusable grouping API for tabs (so other extensions, e.g. VerticalTabs, can reuse Panorama groups)
6. Gmail/GC + Netflix
7. Reinstall experience: a way to ask if they want fresh settings or keep their old ones

Research projects

Projects we need to get started early, since they need more data and/or design explorations.

1. Unify bookmarks/history/tabs and make the transition between them more seamless, browse/search UIs for this
2. Ability to manage hundreds of tabs in low memory situations (serialization, freeze JS, etc)
3. Tablet UI
4. Improved content authoring/editing
5. Merge folders & tags
6. "The Vault", a way to save/freeze content, save encrypted to Sync container, and have them follow you around (receipts, tickets, etc)
7. Combine URL/search bar, support actions
8. Multiuser support, logging in to your browser, sandboxed secure profiles
9. Collecting people/locations/time, service discovery, navigable pages in the browser include meta-pages of location, people, etc.

Tool & process improvements

• community for design discussion?
• omnigraffle stencils for awpy
• new nighly build icon
• visualization tool for progress on a feature over time: treadmill
• HTML bugmail / new bugzilla theme