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* Px - Vista compatibility for installation | * Px - Vista compatibility for installation | ||
== Notes == | |||
=== Item === | |||
* P1 - Provide MSI bundle (Windows only) | |||
** P1 FR - Build system should create a .msi bundle | |||
=== Notes === | |||
* Intended to facilitate enterprise deployment. MSI is useful in a large number of ways in terms of providing flexibility. | |||
* Question: People have been asking for MSI for years, and we've always deprioritized this. Has this deprioritization of enterprise stuff changed? | |||
* This is actually a P1 because of Vista more than because of enterprise work, although enterprise stuff is becoming increasingly important. | |||
* Question: Is P1 too high a priority? | |||
* Standing Question: Is this absolutely mandatory or should it be a P2? | |||
* Patches would have to be in .msp format, yes. | |||
* POSSIBLE CHANGE: Change to "Integrate with MSI installation and patching systems" | |||
=== Item === | |||
* P1 - Airbag | |||
** P1 FR - Collect crash stack data and report it to central server | |||
** P1 NFR - Improve usability of crash report UI | |||
=== Notes === | |||
* Airbag is a replacement for Talkback. | |||
* This is largely about the Airbag client, other Airbag reqs are elsewhere. | |||
* There is a lot more work that needs to be done on Airbag than is reflected here. | |||
* We need the Airbag team to flesh this out further. | |||
* Worst case we have a generic thing to store the Airbag reports if the server is not ready yet. | |||
* Are we willing to ship Firefox 3 with just the client? This is really a non-issue because a rudimentary server is already working, so we really just have to make sure the client is in the browser. | |||
* We need to do a bunch of Firefox integration hooks. | |||
* Do we want client-side feature parity with Talkback? Not really interested in committing to this yet. There's a meeting next week about Airbag and Airbag server where more info will be made available. | |||
=== Item === | |||
* P3 - Windows Group Policy support | |||
** P3 NFR - Allow IT administrators to create group profile policies | |||
=== Notes === | |||
* This is definitely targeted at enterprise systems. | |||
* We need to define this in more detail to come up with actual FRs. | |||
* Agreed that it is a P3 | |||
* People will want to be able to enable/disable users ability to install or uninstall extensions as a global setting. Users would have no choice but to use the extensions that are on the machines. This would be used in situations like libraries and other shared computer situations. | |||
=== Item === | |||
* P3 - Vista Parental Controls support (Windows only) | |||
** P3 FR - Integrate with Windows Vista parental controls | |||
=== Notes === | |||
* We do not currently know what's entirely involved with this, needs to be investigated in more depth. | |||
=== Item === | |||
* Px - Vista compatibility for installation | |||
=== Notes === | |||
* This is largely complete and is now a matter of bug tracking and fixing. | |||
* DELETE from PRD | |||
=== Additional stuff to consider and prioritize === | |||
* Integration with platform-native search services ie: spotlight on Mac | |||
** Search integration should also be brought up in the Places discussion as well (radiant core guy will do it) | |||
* When logging out in Linux it crashes Firefox - it doesn't quit, it just dies, also true with windows. This is a filed bug. Potential for data loss? On restart you get the "Firefox has crashed" dialog, which is uncool. There's some chance of dataloss. Myk will provide a bug number. | |||
** Dbaron will be contacted regarding coming up with a list of Linux-related issues that should be included here. | |||
** 333907 - windows specific bug | |||
*** comments have lots of references to other bugs | |||
** 336193 - may be a linux/mac bug equivalent | |||
** 365749 - linux specific bug (there is overlap) - refer to different signals | |||
* Version detection for Windows - Vista vs XP since we may want to have a different theme for each. Installation configuration piece. | |||
* Growl integration for alerts? Currently the only alert Firefox throws is download completion. There is a bug for this (308552, 362685). Could be useful for extensions. nsIAlertService stuff. | |||
** ADD: "P3 FR Growl alert notifications" | |||
==== Follow-up (Mar 24th, 2007) ==== | |||
* to do per-version OS theming requires | |||
** ADD: "P2 NFR Determine version of OS and select appropriate theme elements" | |||
** ADD: "P2 FR Determine OS version at startup and select/apply appropriate theme" | |||
** ADD: "P3 FR Add css-selector for OS version" | |||
** ADD: "P3 FR Add OS-levels-supported metadata to theme packages and selection system" (this might belong in Add-ons) | |||