Features/Desktop/Firefox Home Tab

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Status

Firefox Home Tab
Stage	Development
Status	In progress
Release target	Firefox 10
Health	At risk
Status note	Some churn in development over design details and use cases we are optimizing for. Product and Development working on simplifying the assumptions so we can get to something we can check in for FF10. Putting this at risk since we only have 2 weeks left.

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Team

Product manager	Chris Lee
Directly Responsible Individual	Chris Lee
Lead engineer	Margaret Leibovic
Security lead	`
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	`
UX lead	Jennifer Boriss
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.

Phase 1

• Bug 544819 - Create a basic Home Tab linking to the current Home Page
• Bug 585316 - Migrate homepage pref when we remove the home button

Phase 2

• Enhance the about:home content and leverage the work from the New Tab Page feature
• 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

• We have a patch ready that will fix a few problems that enable us to finish the feature implementation. It was pushed to the try server but not checked in yet. bug 692339

• We made some simplifying assumptions that would help us get to some patch we can check in.

• Tracking development in home tab etherpad

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Phase 1

• Bug 544819 - Create a basic Home Tab linking to the current Home Page
• Bug 585316 - Migrate homepage pref when we remove the home button

Phase 2

• Enhance the about:home content and leverage the work from the New Tab Page feature
• Full integration of tools/preferences into a tab page vs. drop-down menu

|Feature users and use cases=` |Feature dependencies=` |Feature 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

|Feature non-goals=Synchronize state of home tabs across windows |Feature functional spec=` |Feature ux design=` |Feature implementation plan=` |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=` |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=* We have a patch ready that will fix a few problems that enable us to finish the feature implementation. It was pushed to the try server but not checked in yet. bug 692339

• We made some simplifying assumptions that would help us get to some patch we can check in.

• Tracking development in home tab etherpad

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Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	8
Theme / Goal	Discover
Roadmap	Firefox Desktop
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Desktop
Project	`
Engineering team	Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

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