Firefox/Projects/Preferences UI

Summary

Refresh the Firefox preferences window to meet the following design objectives:

• Streamline the number of options
• Add UI for Weave Sync
• Refactor our manager and exceptions window UI to allow changing all of the privileges for a particular site

Current Status

Just getting started on mockups

Next Steps

• Triage of existing prefs, initial whiteboard work with the rest of the UX team.
• Mockup each tab in the new window

Related Bugs

• Bugs will get filed once the first round of mockups are complete

Team

• Project Lead: faaborg? (maybe limi)
• limi
• boriss

Designs

• Overview

Goals/Use Cases

• Provide the right amount of control, putting users in charge of their browsing experience, without overwhelming them with micromanaging.
• Provide a range of features and interactions that weren't possible in previous releases of Firefox.

Non Goals

• Placating extremely boundary and minority use cases
• Increasing complexity
• Giving the user options that they have no hope of understanding
• Playing blame the victim
• Using prefs as a means to settle debates over default settings