Tab Strip Visual Redesign

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Status

Tab Strip Visual Redesign
Stage	Landed
Status	In progress
Release target	Firefox 29
Health	OK
Status note	`

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Team

Product manager	Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual	Stephen Horlander
Lead engineer	Matthew Noorenberghe
Security lead	`
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	Paul Silaghi
UX lead	Stephen Horlander
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	Mike Conley

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Redesign and streamline the Tab Strip.

Goals:

• Emphasis the current active tab
• Create a soft, smooth and streamlined appearance

2. Users & use cases

All users that use tabs.

3. Dependencies

• Implement window frame in XUL – bug 590945
• Tabs in titlebar support for OSX – bug 625989
• Ability to manipulate window controls for OSX - bug 851652

4. Requirements

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Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

Design Goals:

• Soft curves connecting the Active Tab to the Tab Strip
• No visual affordance to background tabs except on hover
• Subtle separators for background tabs

Design Specs:

• Windows 7
  • Aero

• Windows XP
  • Luna Blue
  • Olive
  • Silver

• OSX

• Linux

Tabs

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

Development work can be tracked in bug 732583 and its dependencies:

• australis-tabs-win bug 738491
• australis-tabs-osx bug 823180
• australis-tabs-linux bug 823176

Planning etherpad Bug tracking dashboard

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

Must land in the same Firefox release as the Panel Menu and new toolbar customization {{#set:Feature open issues and risks=` |Feature overview=Redesign and streamline the Tab Strip.

Goals:

• Emphasis the current active tab
• Create a soft, smooth and streamlined appearance

|Feature users and use cases=All users that use tabs. |Feature dependencies=* Implement window frame in XUL – bug 590945

• Tabs in titlebar support for OSX – bug 625989
• Ability to manipulate window controls for OSX - bug 851652

|Feature requirements=` |Feature non-goals=` |Feature functional spec=` |Feature ux design=Design Goals:

• Soft curves connecting the Active Tab to the Tab Strip
• No visual affordance to background tabs except on hover
• Subtle separators for background tabs

Design Specs:

• Windows 7
  • Aero

• Windows XP
  • Luna Blue
  • Olive
  • Silver

• OSX

• Linux

Tabs

|Feature implementation plan=` |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=` |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=Development work can be tracked in bug 732583 and its dependencies:

• australis-tabs-win bug 738491
• australis-tabs-osx bug 823180
• australis-tabs-linux bug 823176

Planning etherpad Bug tracking dashboard |Feature landing criteria=Must land in the same Firefox release as the Panel Menu and new toolbar customization }}

Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	Experience
Roadmap	User Experience
Secondary roadmap	Firefox Desktop
Feature list	Desktop
Project	`
Engineering team	Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

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Localization	`	`
Accessibility	`	`
Quality assurance	`	`
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Product marketing	`	`
Operations	`	`

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