Add-ons/Projects/Jazz

An effort to make it clear to users the ways in which extensions change the behavior of their browser.

Note from andym: 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 optional permissions 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

What's been done so far:

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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

These may or may not be visible to everyone:

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

Mocks

The current mocks can be found at https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/6HCITJKP8.