Features/Desktop/Firefox Home Tab
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
- bug 671486 -- Work around to support a persistent home tab until Global App Tabs work is completed
Phase 2
- Enhance the about:home content and leverage the work from the New Tab Page feature
- bug 544819 - Full integration of tools/preferences into a tab page vs. drop-down menu
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
- bug 671486 -- Work around to support a persistent home tab until Global App Tabs work is completed
Phase 2
- Enhance the about:home content and leverage the work from the New Tab Page feature
- bug 544819 - Full integration of tools/preferences into a tab page vs. drop-down menu
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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
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | ` | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
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