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| = User Experience Priorities for Firefox 4 =
| | '''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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| 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.
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| For an abridged and prioritized, flat list of the high-value Firefox 4 bugs, please see [[Firefox/Projects/High-value Firefox 4 bugs]].
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| The below list is the comprehensive overview of what the UX team is tracking, so might be a bit intimidating in scope — if you don't know where to start helping, go to the abridged list instead.
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| == New Theme ==
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| Owner: shorlander
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| * Tabs in titlebar on Windows on maximize {{bug|572160}} (available as option on the Mac) — SoapyHamhocks is stuck, ask jimm?
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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|544818}}, {{bug|578028}}
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| ** Site identity block {{bug|587901}} — either finalize the URL representation in its various states, or put favicon back in. adw is willing to look at this, also need to talk to johnath.
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| ** URL-on-link-hover {{bug|587908}}
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| * Make Search local to the tab (at least for tabs-on-top)
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| * Improved visual style of AwesomeBar results: {{bug|587909}}
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| * Tab improvements, including Frank Yan's patches:
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| ** Animated dragging/detaching, {{bug|455694}} (just the dragging: {{bug|485105}})
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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 for undo power
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| ** Groups from Panorama should show in List All Tabs {{bug|596017}}
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| * Clean up the stop/go/reload area: {{bug|592909}}, {{bug|430627}}
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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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| * Overall Windows XP theme progress
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| * Linux implementation of the Firefox menu: {{bug|585370}}
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| * Linux: Tab improvements
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| * Make find-in-page local to the tab: {{bug|565552}}
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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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| * Polish: Fitts' Law improvements: close buttons, tabs (when on top), maximized Firefox menu should all be clickable on the edges
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| == Startup performance, perception of performance & papercuts ==
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| * URL autocomplete {{bug|566489}}
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| * Ghost out the reload button instead of ghosting the Stop button so we don't add N ms to every page load, {{bug|596428}}
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| * Window drawing during startup on Windows is worse than before
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| * Session Restore improvements (owner: zpao)
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| ** 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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| * No text in beforeUnload dialog + change to "Stay on page"/"Leave page": {{bug|588292}}
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| * Non-modal JS dialogs, {{bug|59314}}
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| * Allow abort of modal alerts: {{bug|61098}}
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| * Paste & Go {{bug|492544}} (dolske volunteered to review this once ui-review is cleared up)
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| Under consideration:
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| * Memory fragmentation on OS X, use jemalloc on OS X: {{bug|414946}}
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| * Resource Packages: {{bug|529208}} (owner: jlebar)
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| == Firefox menu ==
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| Owner:
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| * Check for Updates button in About window {{bug|585475}}
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| ** upgrade UI should be in About Window
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| ** add link to support
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| ** 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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| Under consideration:
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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) {{bug|511529}}, partially fixed in {{bug|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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| * Blocking third-party extension installs {{bug|596343}}
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| * Removing duplicate add-ons {{bug|596392}}
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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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| Under consideration:
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| * Blocking add-ons that are more than two versions behind, compatibility-wise (ie. an add-on that doesn't work with 3.6 nor with 4.0 shouldn't stop you from upgrading your 3.5 to 4.0)
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| * Centralize CSS & resources for reuse in other in-content pages (polish)
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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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| Updated specification: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/App_Tabs#Design_Specification — we'd still love to have these be global, since there are a lot of issues when not having them global from a UX perspective, but we realize that it might be hard, especially on the current Firefox 4.0 timeline.
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| * Global presence across windows {{bug|587873}} (is postponed unless we can find an owner)
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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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| * "Enable notifications on changes" bug for App tab menu {{bug|596045}}
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| == Locally hosted Firefox Start page ==
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| Owner: mak
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| [[Firefox/Projects/Firefox_Start]] | |
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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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| == Panorama ==
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| Owner: iangilman
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| Tracked here: http://azarask.in/projects/tabcandy/#todo
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| * Combined Panorama + List All Tabs button — this assumes that we can get Panorama groups into the menu — {{bug|596017}}
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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}}
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| ** Finalize the Sync key text + print artifact (Faaborg to ask Sofa about availability)
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| * Primary UI element for Sync {{bug|589981}}
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| == Notification improvements ==
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| Owners: enn (platform, arrow panels), shorlander (visuals), dolske (converting notifications and dialogs to new format, tab modal panels), gavin (geolocation)
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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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| * Cleaning up doorhanger notification use + appearance: {{bug|554937}}
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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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| == 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 entirely (not just hidden by default)
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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 (though the customize palette won't support this release).
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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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| == String freeze related ==
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| * Rename Open in new Window to Move to new Window {{bug|593646}}
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| == Other ==
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| * Tracking search bar vs URL bar vs start page searches separately for metrics, {{bug|596439}}
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| * Mac installer improvements, {{bug|516362}}
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| = Priorities for releases after Firefox 4.0 =
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| Not in prioritized order, parked here until we have shipped 4.0. Most of these were things that didn't make the deadline for 4.0.
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| Also see the [[Firefox/UX index]] for other things we're looking at.
| | 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. |
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| == Home tab ==
| | If you want to help out with any of these, get in touch with Alex Limi to coordinate, limi@mozilla.com. |
| Tracked in {{bug|544819}}
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| Details:
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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
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| *** Session Restore opt-in link (see below)
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| *** Standalone XUL location bar
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| | * 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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| | = Research projects = |
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| == Various ==
| | * Ability to manage hundreds of tabs in low memory situations (serialization, freeze JS, etc) |
| | * Tablet UI |
| | * "The Vault", a way to save/freeze content, save encrypted to Sync container, and have them follow you around (receipts, tickets, etc) |
| | * Collecting people/locations/time, service discovery, navigable pages in the browser include meta-pages of location, people, etc. |
| | * Sync my contacts across sites, let me use my Facebook people elsewhere, autocomplete people (with faces) |
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| * Prefs reorganization and move to in-content pages
| | = Tool & process improvements = |
| * Improved Download Manager, {{bug|564934}} & {{bug|564900}} (being worked on by community member, has patches, needs guidance & review love) | | * community for design discussion? |
| * Improved Sharing, {{bug|588508}} (owner: margaret)
| | * omnigraffle stencils for awpy |
| * Privacy & Site-specific Preferences
| | * visualization tool for progress on a feature over time: treadmill |
| ** Site-specific preference panel, {{bug|573176}}
| | * HTML bugmail / new bugzilla theme |
| ** Information in the Site menu (Larry?) about cookies and domains involved
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| * Updated visual design of in-content pages | |
| * Tab opening behavior {{bug|533232}} | |
| * Paper Cuts, especially:
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| ** Focus fixes, tracked in {{bug|565510}} (plugins in particular) | |
| ** When creating a new tab or returning to one, always keep focus in the URL or search box {{bug|565575}}
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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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