Features/Desktop/Firefox Home Tab

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Status

Firefox Home Tab
Stage	Development
Status	In progress
Release target	`
Health	OK
Status note	prototype on the UX branch

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Team

Product manager	Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual	Asa Dotzler
Lead engineer	`
Security lead	`
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	`
UX lead	Alex Faaborg
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Firefox Home Tab is a small pinned tab placed at the far left of the tab strip that will serve as the user's home on the Web. The plan is for this interface to be locally hosted, customizable, and personalized to the needs of each individual user.

Wiki page with additional information -- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Home_Tab

Phase 1

• Default the home tab to the left of the tab strip that always loads on startup
• bug 551849

Phase 2

• Enhance the about:home content and leverage the work from the New Tab Page feature
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544819
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671486 (maybe)

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

• Replace home button with an App Tab that always loads on startup
• Continue to support user-customization of home page URL
• Continue to support multiple home pages
• Continue to allow customization of tools by allowing removal of the Home Tab

Non-goals

Synchronize state of home tabs across windows

Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

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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

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Wiki page with additional information -- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Home_Tab

Phase 1

• Default the home tab to the left of the tab strip that always loads on startup
• bug 551849

Phase 2

• Enhance the about:home content and leverage the work from the New Tab Page feature
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544819
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671486 (maybe)

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• Continue to support user-customization of home page URL
• Continue to support multiple home pages
• Continue to allow customization of tools by allowing removal of the Home Tab

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Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	Discover
Roadmap	Firefox Desktop
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Desktop
Project	`
Engineering team	`

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Team status notes

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