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| = User Experience Priorities for Firefox 4 =
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| How can you help make the UI in Firefox 4 the best it can be? Here are the top priorities identified by the UX team. They are in order of project priority, and internally ranked by importance in the project.
| | '''Note:''' These features have been moved to the main [[Features/Firefox]] feature page. Some are still being written up, and can be found at the [[UX/ToDo]] page in the interim. |
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| META:
| | 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. |
| - Identify owners & reviewers for the areas
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| - Identify unowned
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| - Identify has patch / needs review
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| == Quick overview ==
| | If you want to help out with any of these, get in touch with Alex Limi to coordinate, limi@mozilla.com. |
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| Have patches, need review:
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| = High priority =
| | * Improved discovery pane in add-ons manager |
| | * Backgrounds and themes view in the add-ons manager/live preview |
| | * Don't let add-ons that are not compatible with an unsupported version of Firefox stop you from upgrading: bug 597598 — i.e. an add-on that doesn't work with 3.6 nor with 4.0 shouldn't stop you from upgrading your Firefox 3.5 to 4.0 |
| | * Search improvements — Among others: attach “create custom search” onto search form completion dropdowns (possibly with threshold, detect search fields, 3rd time etc) |
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| == New Theme == | | = Research projects = |
| Owner: shorlander
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| * Tabs in titlebar on Windows on maximize {{bug|572160}} (available as option on the Mac)
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| * Location bar improvements:
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| ** Combined Stop/Go/Reload {{bug|544816}}
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| ** Better progress bars {{bug|578028}}
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| ** Site identity block {{bug|587901}}
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| ** URL-on-link-hover {{bug|587908}}
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| ** Improved visual style for search results {{bug|587909}}
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| * Tab improvements, including Frank Yan's patches:
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| ** Animated dragging/detaching {{bug|455694}}
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| ** Improved tab ordering on open and close {{bug|578327}}
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| ** Tab multiselect {{bug|566510}}
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| ** Tab overflow improvements {{bug|570564}}
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| ** Eliminate redundant text when multiple tabs have the same partial title {{bug|583890}}
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| * List All Tabs menu should list closed tabs/windows
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| ** Groups from Panorama should show in List All Tabs
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| * Move RSS button to secondary UI {{bug|578967}}
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| * Windows XP menu bar styling {{bug|575870}}
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| * Linux implementation of the Firefox menu: {{bug|585370}}
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| * META: Pixel polishing to get the themes closer to the mock-ups during the polish phase, Stephen has a great overview here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/New_Theme/Timeline
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| == Startup performance & user perception of performance ==
| | * Ability to manage hundreds of tabs in low memory situations (serialization, freeze JS, etc) |
| * Disable add-ons that the user never said yes to and known bad ones (still being outlined, bug coming) | | * Tablet UI |
| * URL autocomplete {{bug|566489}} | | * "The Vault", a way to save/freeze content, save encrypted to Sync container, and have them follow you around (receipts, tickets, etc) |
| * Memory fragmentation on OS X, use jemalloc on OS X: {{bug|414946}} | | * Collecting people/locations/time, service discovery, navigable pages in the browser include meta-pages of location, people, etc. |
| * Resource Packages: {{bug|529208}} (owner: jlebar)
| | * Sync my contacts across sites, let me use my Facebook people elsewhere, autocomplete people (with faces) |
| * Window drawing during startup on Windows is worse than before | |
| * Session Restore improvements (owner: zpao) | |
| ** Restore Session on-demand at startup {{bug|588482}}
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| ** Loading N tabs in parallel on startup instead of all of them {{bug|586068}}
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| == Firefox menu == | | = Tool & process improvements = |
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| * Check for Updates button in About window {{bug|585475}} | | * omnigraffle stencils for awpy |
| ** upgrade UI should be in About Window
| | * visualization tool for progress on a feature over time: treadmill |
| ** add link to support
| | * HTML bugmail / new bugzilla theme |
| ** add link to privacy policy
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| * Making sure Work Offline is removed (ie. never stuck in offline mode)
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| * Put Troubleshooting item back in Help Menu
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| * Menu cleanups for the context menu and traditional (XP, Linux) menu
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| == Add-ons Manager ==
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| Owner: Mossop
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| Meta: {{bug|550048}}
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| * Disable add-ons the user didn't install + known performance ones on upgrade, ask the user to re-enable the ones they actually use
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| * Silent updates (works for restartless add-ons, what about non-restartless? follow up with Mossop and rs) 511529, partially fixed in 562622
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| * Complete visual design {{bug|586066}} (meta)
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| ** Detail view implemention: {{bug|562902}}
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| ** List view implementation: {{bug|585950}}
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| * Install confirmation for add ons added by other software
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| * Confirmation that an add-on has been installed
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| * "Get Add-ons" implemented (AMO dependency, talk to Fligtar)
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| * Allowing backgrounds and themes to be used together: {{bug|520124}}
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| == App tabs ==
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| Owner: zpao
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| Meta: {{bug|551849}} (dependency tree)
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| * Global presence across windows {{bug|587873}}
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| ** No reloading of plugins when window is re-parented {{bug|449734}}
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| * Chromeless by default, option to opt for it on {{bug|585445}}
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| * External links from within app tabs should open in new tabs {{bug|575561}}
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| * Focus color change when tab has dialog or changes title or snippet addition on Home tab {{bug|577096}}
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| == Locally hosted Firefox Start page ==
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| Owner: mak
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| * Basic version of the start page as about:home {{bug|563723}}
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| * Snippets capability for upgrade messaging etc.
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| * Ability to async update the home page code
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| * Visual design by Stephen
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| == Home tab ==
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| Owner: UNOWNED! (but should build on the work zpao is/has been doing for App Tabs, obviously)
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| Tracked in {{bug|544819}}
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| * Upgrade experience
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| * Have to be in all windows, and not be moved around
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| * Needs its own icon
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| * What happens with home pages that != Firefox Start
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| * Locally hosted home page with chrome privileges
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| ** Show bookmarks bar on home page?
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| ** Links that open Bookmarks, Downloads, History, Add-ons, Options, windows | |
| *** Session Restore opt-in link (see below)
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| *** Standalone XUL location bar
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| == Tab Candy ==
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| Owner: iangilman
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| Tracked here: http://azarask.in/projects/tabcandy/#todo
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| == Sync ==
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| Owners: mconnor, philipp
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| * Email address as user name {{bug|589979}}
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| * Generate Sync Key {{bug|591118}}
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| * Change flow of setup wizard {{bug|591120}}
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| * New style for setup wizard {{bug|591122}}
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| * Design physical Sync Key artifact {{bug|591533}} | |
| * Primary UI element for Sync {{bug|589981}}
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| == Notification improvements ==
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| * Doorhangers
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| ** Needs to land with specified visual style, especially the anchor marker ("diamond" edge) and split buttons {{bug|577927}}
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| * High priority notification bars/dialogs that need transfer to the new design:
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| ** Geolocation (complete)
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| ** Password manager - remember {{bug|567814}}
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| ** Password manager - change {{bug|588309}}
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| ** httpauth {{bug|567804}}
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| ** Popups blocked {{bug|588317}}
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| ** XPI install {{bug|588266}}
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| * High priority Home Tab snippets:
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| ** Ability to glow to draw attention when not focused {{bug|588589}}
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| ** "Know your rights" {{bug|571584}}
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| ** Firefox update available {{bug|588227}}
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| * High priority tab modal panels:
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| ** JS alert/confirm/prompt {{bug|562258}} (Frank has WIP, some missing back-end pieces, at risk)
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| ** Improve beforeunload dialog {{bug|588292}} (assign to dolske, high value)
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| == Extension Bar ==
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| Owner: dietrich
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| Project page: [[Firefox/Projects/AddonUI]]
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| Status bar removal dependencies are listed in {{bug|574688}}
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| * Remove status bar
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| * Visual design: glass on Windows, gradient gray on the Mac
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| * Don't display if no extensions exist
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| * Display when modified
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| * Needs to be a toolbar, so you can drag things to/from it
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| * API that inserts icons in earlier status bar now end up in extension bar, change ID of navigation bar and redirect that API to Extension toolbar too
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| * Opportunistic: Extension panels for existing toolbars, with "pin" option, give sidebars an icon to display or entry in extensions
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| = Nice-to-have =
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| * Improved Download Manager, {{bug|564934}} & {{bug|564900}} (being worked on by community member, has patches, needs guidance & review love) | |
| * Improved Sharing, {{bug|588508}} (owner: margaret)
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| * Privacy & Site-specific Preferences
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| ** Site-specific preference panel, {{bug|573176}}
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| ** Information in the Site menu (Larry?) about cookies and domains involved
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| * Visual design of in-content pages
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| * Tab opening behavior {{bug|533232}}
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| * Paper Cuts, especially:
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| ** Focus fixes, tracked in {{bug|565510}} (plugins in particular)
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| ** When creating a new tab or returning to one, always keep focus in the URL or search box {{bug|565575}}
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| ** Paste & Go {{bug|492544}} (dolske volunteered to review this once ui-review is cleared up)
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| ** Web sites shouldn't be allowed to resize main window
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| ** Web sites shouldn't be allowed to fake pop-unders using focus
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| ** Remove 3-second delay from AMO installs
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| ** Click-to-enable for certain plugins (Java, etc), allow same setting for Flash
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| ** "Don't ask me to install this plugin again"
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| ** Cmd/Ctrl-L doesn't bring up the AwesomeBar when location bar is hidden
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| * Visually distinguish visible tabs in List All Tabs menu
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| * Find in page improvements (move to top, overlay, tab-specific)
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