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Submitted for triage on May 16

Roadmap Team Feature Status Proposed by
UX Front-end New Tab page Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Platform Show PDF inline Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Platform Improved Mac installer Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Front-end Simplify Panorama UI Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Platform Import settings from Sync Untriaged Alex Faaborg
UX Front-end Eliminate redundant title text Untriaged Frank Yan
UX Front-end Expose prefs for tabs-on-demand Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Front-end Convert remaining window-modal dialogs to tab-modal Untriaged Justin Dolske
UX Front-end Opt-in activation for plugins Untriaged Justin Dolske
UX Front-end Improved missing plugin experience Untriaged Justin Dolske
UX Front-end Improve display of location bar results Untriaged Stephen Horlander
UX Front-end Global App Tabs Untriaged Paul O’Shannessy

Feature pages we need to complete

Roadmap Team Feature Status Proposed by
UX Platform Captive portal handling (mention Safari's approach, Chrome's approach) Untriaged
UX Front-end Improved full-screen experience (especially in preparation for OS X 10.7, also display the firefox button, normal window controls on Windows) Untriaged
UX Front-end In-content preferences (including unifying customization/appearance/themes, eliminating unneeded windows), faster navigation, better grouping) Untriaged
UX Front-end Improve find-in-page disappear: bug 628179 Untriaged Jennifer Boriss
UX Front-end Indicate file type with pointer Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Front-end Caps lock indicator in password field Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Front-end File upload indicators on form submission Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Front-end Improve new tab and tab sibling/parent behavior Untriaged Frank Yan
UX Front-end Make search local to tab bug 565740 Untriaged
Platform UX Ability to run concurrent channels Nightly & Aurora should use their own profiles (and first run should teach you how to set up sync to get your data), Beta & Firefox use the Firefox profile. Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Front-end Improved about:support merging about:crashes, about:memory, about:plugins (?) into about:support. Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Front-end Pre-fetch search results Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Front-end Simplify tab overflow (user testing required) Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Front-end Discern visible tabs in tab menu Untriaged Frank Yan
UX Front-end Move Library window in-content Untriaged
UX Front-end Unify location & search fields — We should make common actions available in the location bar, and do some user testing to figure out what patterns people use while searching vs. entering URLs. Also figure out what the percentages are via metrics. Untriaged
UX Front-end Different window look in Private Browsing Untriaged Alex Faaborg
UX Platform Improved monospace fonts bug 468169 Untriaged Alex Faaborg
UX Front-end Reduce redundancy in URL bar — Do user testing on various SSL/identity variants, see if there's a difference and whether we can help people understand it better when they want to. Untriaged
UX Front-end Improved progress indicator — User test various progress indicator variations (perception of speed): Better indicator for how much of a page is downloaded, maybe even separate indicator for page vs resources on the page. Untriaged
UX Front-end Unify bookmarks/history/tabs — Investigate unifying bookmarks/history/tabs/groups/new tab/home tab and make the transition between them more seamless, browse + search UIs for these Untriaged
UX Front-end Better customization UI — Should be in-content, include appearance and toolbar customization in one. Untriaged
UX Front-end Route around network latency — things to explore: prefetch, preload-on-hover, "optimize away the network when we can" Untriaged
UX Front-end Built-in translation — Capability of selecting text and translating it, offer to translate page when not in user's selected language Untriaged
UX Front-end Location bar actions — visual treatment, first version: search keywords, include menu items in this, like Dietrich's extension? Untriaged
UX Front-end Global Undo — For closing tabs, closing windows, figure out what should and shouldn't be in the undo stack. Untriaged
UX Front-end Improved saving of web pages — Use case: Receipts, offline reading (“read later”), Paolo has a related project here, MAF: http://maf.mozdev.org/ — also related: “The Vault” & Sync Untriaged
UX Front-end Unify plugins & extensions — Unify plugins and extension listings, straighten out the language (add-ons) Untriaged
UX Front-end Sidebar tabs — Sidebar tabs: A power-user interface that gives you better control of large number of open pages. Partial thumbnails, grouping, filtering. blog post #1, blog post #2 Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Front-end Improved history browser — History as a parallel timeline? Better indication in human terms and navigation of sites in history. Resources: wei's sprint wei's video Simile Timeline Slife Untriaged
UX Front-end Web page quick look — User-triggered way to get an idea of where a link will go, possibly show a preview or some information about where a link leads Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Front-end Browser UI for navigating bookmarks — Vista/Win7 explorer-like interface for navigating favorites, get rid of URLs when displaying favorites Untriaged Alex Faaborg
UX Front-end Volume controls across multiple pages — Volume per tab and/or some way to indicate "which tab is making noise" Untriaged
UX Front-end Multiuser support — logging in to your browser, sandboxed secure profiles, a "Guest" login that will optionally let you pull down core parts of sync profile (logins, bookmarks, latest history) Untriaged
UX Front-end Context menu cleanup Untriaged Alex Limi
UX Front-end Recently closed tabs in tab menu — List All Tabs menu should list closed tabs/windows for more obvious undo: bug 597593 — also consider Panorama and/or new tab Untriaged
UX Front-end Keyboard shortcut preferences — Self-documenting keyboard shortcut overview, (generated from the code?) — should inform a keyboard shortcut cleanup later, and Tim's extension is a good start: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/customizable-shortcuts/ Untriaged
UX Front-end [[]] Untriaged

Need more granularity

UX Front-end Continued menu cleanup (OS X, context, tab menu) Untriaged Alex Limi
Platform UX HTML5 form controls Untriaged Alex Limi