Add-ons/Projects/Jazz

I hate giving projects code names, but we couldn't think of a good summary for this project that didn't involve being confused with every other permissions and objects project. So we have Jazz and that seems cool since we have Disco Pane.

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Project Jazz

Let's find a way to show users of extensions what the extensions do to their browser after they are installed. This includes, but is not limited to:

• showing a user the permissions granted by a user to the add-on
• allow a user to revoke permissions (both optional and required) from the add-on
• showing a user which command combinations an add-on requests
• allowing a user to change the command combinations an add-on requests
• show what collisions in APIs add-ons might represent
• allowing the user to override or change key functionality such as: search engines, home page, new tab pages
  • we need this for *all* prefs that are accessible via the UI and also controllable by WebExtensions
  • we need to consider whether a user should be able to specify a value for a preference, and have that block WebExtensions from overriding the preference, and if so, how would that work/what would it look like

Milestones

Currently under discussion.

Milestone 1

Produce a standard way of showing extension overrides in about:preferences. This would be for things like about:home, about:newtab, but we could also repeat this process simply for each preference when it gets an appropriate API.

Bugs

Tracking bug

Tracking bug is 1342584.

Full Query

ID	Priority	Status	Summary
1323077	P5	NEW	Display the extension name when a keyword is active.
1323080	P5	NEW	Don't show keyword while the keyword is active.
1373851	P3	NEW	Show that a WebExtension has called theme.update
1373854	P3	NEW	Show that a WebExtension has assigned an omnibox key
1375453	P5	UNCONFIRMED	omnibox keywords should be user-overrideable
1390160	P3	NEW	Show that a WebExtension is managing how cookies are handled
1401177	P3	NEW	Show that a WebExtension is managing the document fonts setting
1408053	--	NEW	[META] Show that tabs are hidden and all the implications
1413306	P5	NEW	Surface the "When Firefox starts" API to about:preferences
1413350	P3	NEW	Show users when an extension is modifying the current tab
1428486	P3	NEW	Show extensions are using the proxy API in about:preferences
1449665	P3	NEW	Show that a WebExtension is managing the document color settings
1595865	P2	NEW	update about:config to show extension control of a preference

13 Total; 13 Open (100%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Trello cards

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• Extension setting Home Page &/or newTab
• User interface for exposing how extensions change Firefox