Firefox3/Product Requirements Document
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Add-ons
P1
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADD-003e | Unify add-ons management system and add plugin management system | Michael Wu | bug 382367 for backend changes. Nothing for frontend changes yet. Should land for B1 | |
| ADD-003h | Support shipping of localized user-facing addon text | Dave Townsend | bug 257155 Proposed Implementation Should land for A6 |
P2
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADD-001a | Add-ons can be installed in fewer mouse clicks | Rob Strong | bug 384951 To be determined w/ Madhava Enros | |
| ADD-001b | Ensure user understands the risks about installing extensions | Rob Strong | ||
| ADD-001c | Clarify XPi install dialogs and user interactions | Rob Strong | ||
| ADD-01d | Help wanted | Remove extension installation whitelist | Needs Owner | note: the (xpinstall) whitelist is for both plugins and extensions |
| ADD-002a | Allow Add-on configuration UI to be accessed from main application configuration UI | Rob Strong | bug 384956 should land for A6 (same as ADD-002b) | |
| ADD-002b | Improve discoverability of Add-on configuration UI | Rob Strong | bug 384956 should land for A6 (same as ADD-002a) | |
| ADD-003a | Add visual indication to browser UI when Add-on updates are available | Rob Strong | bug 366777 depends on bug 347585 (mconnor to assign someone to bug 347585) | |
| ADD-003b | Add permanent button for restarting Firefox | Dão Gottwald | bug 369075 | |
| ADD-003d | Simplify language and unify terminology related to Add-ons | Rob Strong | ||
| ADD-003g | Support displaying information about the update in the updater | Dave Townsend | bug 297903 | |
| ADD-003j | Support add-on conflict resolution | Dave Townsend | bug 382312 Proposed Implementation | |
| ADD-005b | Promote the existence of Add-ons that could help the user accomplish their current task | Rob Strong | ||
| ADD-005c | Help documents should link to related Add-on categories on addons.mozilla.org | |||
| ADD-006a | Ship the FUEL JavaScript library | John Resig & Mark Finkle | bug 380168 |
P3
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADD-001e | At risk | Install Add-on without requiring a browser restart | Rob Strong | |
| ADD-003c | At risk | Simplify task flow for updating single addons | ||
| ADD-003f | At risk | Allow addons to control other types of extensions and ensuring that model is extensible | ||
| ADD-003i | At risk | Support for use of some kind of service for extension dependency resolution | ||
| ADD-004a | At risk | Making signing a requirement or higher value in install experience | ||
| ADD-004b | At risk | Providing a lower priv model for certain classes of extension | ||
| ADD-005a | At risk | Improve quality of results from Plugin Finders | ||
| ADD-005d | At risk | Small "Add-on" button on managers, dialogs, etc. which links directly to related Add-on categories in AMO |
Content handling
P1
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON-001a | Support web services as MIME type handlers | Dan Mosedale | bug 372441,bug 380415,Feature Requirements | |
| CON-002a | Needs def | Should be able to play all popular media formats when plugins/codecs are installed | ||
| CON-002b | Needs def | It should be easy to locate and install missing plugins | ||
| CON-002d | Needs def | Support all media types on all platforms as best we can | ||
| CON-003a | Simplify content handling UI | Dan Mosedale | bug 377782, Feature Requirements |
P2
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON-001b | Minimize/remove local MIME type database for local applications | Dan Mosedale | bug 372853 | |
| CON-002c | Needs Spec | Identify ways to mitigate plugin crashes | Johnny? | |
| CON-003b | Create an easy-to-use MIME type handling configuration system | Dan Mosedale | bug 377782, Feature Requirements | |
| CON-004a | Revised downloads manager | Shawn Wilsher | bug 377792, Feature Requirements | |
| CON-005b | Easier retrieval of files that a user has downloaded in the past | Dan Mosedale | bug 377793 | |
| CON-006a | Integrate download manager with third-party virus scanners and malware protection | Dan Mosedale | bug 103487 | |
| CON-007a | Support pause/resume for downloads. Improve download handling across multiple sessions | Dan Mosedale | bug 377243, bug 230870 | |
| CON-008a | Create document-parsing framework for detecting microformats | Michael Kaply | Feature Requirements | |
| CON-008b | Create API for developers to leverage the microformat detection framework | Michael Kaply | Feature Requirements | |
| CON-011a | Include Firebug as part of some distribution of Firefox | Mike Connor | Tacking Page |
P3
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON-001c | At risk | Properly handle streaming content types - embedded or handed off to a helper app | ||
| CON-003c | At risk | Ability to show or sniff content on demand and view in plaintext or HTML or other format instead | ||
| CON-005c | At risk | Simplified (not window) UI for managing downloads | ||
| CON-007b | At risk | Download manager can be extended in a way that feels tightly integrated | ||
| CON-009a | Display microformats in content area | Michael Kaply | Feature Requirements | |
| CON-009b | Allow user to configure microformat handlers | Michael Kaply | Feature Requirements | |
| CON-009c | Support hCard, hCal, and geo | Michael Kaply | Feature Requirements | |
| CON-009e | Allow web developers to override microformat display attributes | Michael Kaply | Feature Requirements | |
| CON-010a | At risk | Simplify the print preview dialog |
Distribution
P1
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DIST-001a | Settings from distros will need to be persisted across minor (and ideally for major) updates made to Firefox via Automatic Update Service (AUS) | Dan Mills | Functional Reqs | |
| DIST-001b | Branding will not be easily removable by end users except through a full uninstall of the branded Firefox | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-001c | Security and stability releases/upgrades to Firefox will be smoothly delivered without requiring customized partner builds to be generated | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-001d | When end users use a distro, settings from the distro will need to be persisted when a new OS user invokes Firefox for the first time and/or when a new Firefox user profile is created | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-001e | All customizations of text must include full support of Unicode (UTF-8) | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-001f | Support an indicator that a particular build is a partner build rather than a vanilla Mozilla distribution from inside Firefox (about box) | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-002a | Ability to customize vanilla Firefox with a group of settings | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-002b | Support for creating distributions that support Windows (.exe) | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-002d | Support for creating distributions of any existing Firefox locale build | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-003a | Support of low-touch customization features through low-touch interface (web UI, customization tool, etc...) | Dan Mills | P1 Customization Checklist |
P2
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DIST-002c | Support for creating distributions taht support Mac (.DMG) and Linux (.tar) | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-003b | Support for high-touch customization features through tools | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-004a | Ability to create a “master switch” that can disable a distro | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-004b | Ability to repatriate a distro to vanilla settings remotely by Mozilla or partner (e.g. in the case of default by partner) | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-004c | Support of low-touch customization features | Dan Mills | P2 Customization Checklist |
P3
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DIST-001g | Support attributes on Firefox setup installer in order to distinguish various partner builds from vanilla builds | Dan Mills | ||
| DIST-001h | Support of low-touch customization features | Dan Mills | P3 Customization Checklist |
Gecko/Platform
P1
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GKO-004a | Pass ACID 2 test | David Baron | ||
| GKO-007a | Add UI elements for enabling offline app usage | Dave Camp | ||
| GKO-007b | Add backend elements for offline app support | Dave Camp | ||
| GKO-008a | Cairo graphics | Vlad Vukicevic | ||
| GKO-008b | Cocoa widgets on Mac | Josh Aas | ||
| GKO-008c | Linking Content/Chrome Frame Trees | Robert O'Callahan | ||
| GKO-008g | nxTextFrame migration to Thebes | Robert O'Callahan | ||
| GKO-008h | Frame Display Lists | Robert O'Callahan | ||
| GKO-009b | Reflow branch | David Baron | ||
| GKO-009c | Caret painting rewrite | Blake Kaplan | ||
| GKO-015a | Cross-domain XMLHttpRequest | Jonas Sicking | ||
| GKO-016b | Killing nested event queues | Shebs ?? | ||
| GKO-016c | Graydon's Cycle Collector | Graydon/Peterv |
P2
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GKO-002a | Change "Do you want to resend the request?" dialog to an error page | Mike Beltzner | ||
| GKO-005a | Save web pages as PDF documents | Stuart Parmenter | ||
| GKO-006a | Native form controls and HTML content for Mac OS | Josh Aas | ||
| GKO-008d | Hoist plugins to toplevel children | Robert O'Callahan | ||
| GKO-008e | Widget removal | Robert O'Callahan | ||
| GKO-008f | View Removal | Robert O'Callahan | ||
| GKO-009a | Fix units in Gecko | Eli Friedman | ||
| GKO-016e | Cache item pinning for offline support | Dave Camp | ||
| GKO-018 | Support for Quartz Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) | |||
| GKO-019 | Support for ContentEditable |
P3
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GKO-001a | Printed pages should break without breaking lines | |||
| GKO-009d | Residual style handling | Blake Kaplan | ||
| GKO-010a | XUL Transform support | Vlad Vukicevic | ||
| GKO-014a | At risk | SVG as image format | ||
| GKO-016d | At risk | XPCOM restart in-process | Benjamin Smedberg | |
| GKO-016f | At risk | Offline web browsing | Dave Camp, Robert O'Callahan | |
| GKO-017a | Help Wanted | ATK support rearchitecture | Stan Shebs? | |
| GKO-017b | Help Wanted | Mac OS X accessibility support | Aaron Leventhal? |
User support
P1
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HELP-002b | Make it easier for users to solve their problems and engage with our support community | |||
| HELP-003a | Make it easier to get rapid feedback on problems being encountered by users |
P2
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|
P3
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HELP-006a | Showcase breadth of customization updates | |||
| HELP-001a | Need def | Improve the user support environment from beginning to end | ||
| HELP-002a | At risk | Support reporting multiple types of problems | ||
| HELP-002c | At risk | Recommend relevant documentation/information to user when a problem is submitted | ||
| HELP-003b | Provide some sort of feedback/information/status to people who have reported issues | |||
| HELP-004a | Better integration with online, real-time support resources | |||
| HELP-005a | At risk | Context sensitive help: Topics should be immediately relevant to users |
OS platform integration
P1
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OSPI-001a | At risk | Build system should create a MSI/MSP bundle (Windows only) | Mike Connor | |
| OSPI-002a | Collect crash stack data and report it to central server | Ted Mielczarek | Socorro design | |
| OSPI-002b | Improve usability of crash report UI | Ted Mielczarek, Dave Camp | bug 358082, bug 380540 | |
| OSPI-004a | At risk | Integrate with Windows Vista parental controls | MConnor & Jim? |
P2
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OSPI-001b | At risk | Version detection for Windows - Vista vs XP since we may want to have a different theme for each. Installation configuration piece | Mike Beltzner | Will not use CSS selectors |
| OSPI-005a | Complete | Growl alert notifications for Mac OS X | Shawn Wilsher | Bug 362685 |
| OSPI-006a | When logging out in Linux it crashes Firefox - it doesn't quit, it just dies, also true with Windows | Michael Wu | ||
| OSPI-008a | Support IAccessible 2 on Windows |
P3
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OSPI-003a | At risk | Allow IT administrators to create group profile policies via the Windows Group Policy Object (GPO) | ||
| OSPI-007a | At risk | Support ATK (accessibility API) on Linux |
Password, Identity
P1
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PASS-001a | Only let the user save the password after they know the login has succeeded | Justin Dolske | bug 226735 | |
| PASS-001b | Complete | Store more precise URIs for autofilling user IDs and passwords | Mike Connor | bug 360493 |
P2
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PASS-001c | Improve usefulness of password manager | Justin Dolske | ||
| PASS-001d | Improve discoverability of autofill UI for multiple accounts on the same site | Justin Dolske | bug 376668 | |
| PASS-001e | Improve the way password lists are sorted and add the ability to search or filter | Justin Dolske | bug 376682 | |
| PASS-001f | Improve usability of password manager list | Justin Dolske | bug 376682 | |
| PASS-001g | Simplify and promote the use of Master Password | Justin Dolske | ||
| PASS-003a | Generate hashed passwords for increased security (ref: pwdhash) | Justin Dolske, Robert Sayre | bug 376674 | |
| PASS-003c | OS-level secure password storage integration | Justin Dolske | bug 106400 |
P3
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PASS-002a | At risk | Support Microsoft CardSpace on Windows | Justin Dolske | |
| PASS-002b | At risk | Support OpenID | Justin Dolske | |
| PASS-002c | At risk | Provide a simple identity management UI | ||
| PASS-003b | At risk | Out-of-band login support | Robert Sayre |
Places
P1
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLCS-001a | Provide platform support to enable syncing of Places datamodel objects to a remote server | Places Team | bug 374518 | |
| PLCS-001c | Complete | Provide platform support to support generic annotations | Places Team | bug 374943 |
| PLCS-001d | Ensure that Places includes a usable and robust API for extensibility | Places Team | bug 374520 | |
| PLCS-002a | Unified user interface that improves the usability and discoverability of features | Places Team | bug 374521 | |
| PLCS-002b | Parity with Firefox 2 Bookmarks/History UI | Places Team | bug 355737 | |
| PLCS-003a | Complete | Protection and safeguarding against data loss | Places Team | bug 374526 |
| PLCS-003b | Complete | Bookmark data is never lost between browsing sessions | Places Team | bug 374527 |
| PLCS-003c | Complete | Provide backup and restore functionality for bookmarks | Places Team | bug 374528 |
| PLCS-003d | Make it easy for users to export their bookmarks for use in another application | Places Team | bug 374529 | |
| PLCS-005a | Improve performance (as measured by memory use, transactional speed, and Ts) of bookmark and history storage and retrieval operations | Places Team | bug 374532 |
P2
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLCS-001b | Build a sync client on the new sync infrastructure | Places Team | bug 374519 | |
| PLCS-002c | Provide some UI that allows users to mark a URI as "interesting" | Places Team | bug 374522 | |
| PLCS-002d | Provide some UI that allows users to annotate a URI with tags | Places Team | bug 374524 | |
| PLCS-004a | Index web page content into a DB that can be queried | Places Team | bug 342913 | |
| PLCS-004b | Allow users to search on all available URI metadata | Places Team | bug 374530 |
P3
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLCS-002e | At risk | Provide some UI that allows users to annotate a URI with free-form notes | bug 374525 | |
| PLCS-004c | At risk | Support SQL queries of the bookmarks database in the Error Console | bug 374531 |
Site-Specific Preferences
P2
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PREF-001a | Create framework for persisting and applying per-site settings across sessions and tabs | Myk Melez | bug 378547 | |
| PREF-001b | Persist text zoom for sites | Myk Melez | bug 378549 |
Security, Privacy
P1
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPI-001a | Better UI indication of encryption, identity, previous interaction/knowledge of site and security/privacy context | Johnathan Nightingale | bug 377076 | |
| SPI-001b | Support website identity validation mechanism (ref: EV Certificates) | Johnathan Nightingale | bug 383183 | |
| SPI-001g | Simplify dialogs around certificate errors | Johnathan Nightingale | bug 327181 | |
| SPI-001i | Chromeless popup windows should have some forced chrome | Johnathan Nightingale | bug 337344 | |
| SPI-003b | At risk | Countermeasures for Java/plugin/extension vulnerabilities (disable, warn, offer updates) | jst? fx team? | |
| SPI-003c | Content restriction - Allow web authors to restrict scripts in headers | Jonas and Sayre? |
P2
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPI-001d | User should be able to determine the "identity" of a website when that information is available | Johnathan Nightingale | bug 377076 | |
| SPI-001e | Provide UI for displaying summary of security signals | Johnathan Nightingale | bug 377076 | |
| SPI-001f | Simplify the UI around presenting certificates | Johnathan Nightingale | bug 380775 | |
| SPI-001h | Improve dialogs/alerts related to security | Johnathan Nightingale | bug 377076 | |
| SPI-001j | Unify terminology and metaphors for "blocked malicious content" | Johnathan Nightingale | bug 380932 | |
| SPI-001k | Enhanced Security Tab in Page Info | Johnathan Nightingale | bug 377076 | |
| SPI-002a | Create a "private browsing mode" for Firefox - local client only | Michael Ventnor | Functional Spec bug 248970 | |
| SPI-002b | At risk | Indicate privacy status in primary UI | Functional Spec | |
| SPI-003a | Blacklisting of malicious websites | Tony Chang | ||
| SPI-003d | Tighten the same-origin policy for local files (file: URLs, trusted, security) | DVeditz | ||
| SPI-003f | Extend Phishing Protection to include malware sites and Add-ons | bug 380932 |
P3
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPI-001c | At risk | Indicate security and privacy status in secondary UI | ||
| SPI-002c | At risk | create pluggable architecture that supports private browsing | ||
| SPI-003e | At risk | Content restriction - Everything else involved with the content restriction proposal | ||
| SPI-003g | At risk | Sanitizing content sinks for full content, not just fragments |
Search
No P1s
P2
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRCH-001b | Support search engine shortcut keys | Ryan Flint | bug 378553 | |
| SRCH-001d | Resizable search bar | Neil Deakin | bug 267831 |
P3
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRCH-001a | At risk | Easy-to-understand UI | ||
| SRCH-001c | Needs def | Rich search results | Gavin Sharp | |
| SRCH-002a | At risk | Ability to declare a default search engine | ||
| SRCH-002b | At risk | Ability to use a temporary search engine and then restore the default |
Visual Refresh
P1
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VIS-001a | Deliver new Firefox theme | Mike Beltzner | ||
| VIS-001b | Revise Firefox chrome | Mike Beltzner |
P2
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P3
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Tabbed browsing
P1
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAB-006a | Data-loss issue related to tabs/windows |
P2
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAB-001a | At risk | Quickly group similar tabs together | ||
| TAB-002a | At risk | Quickly find the tab you're looking for | ||
| TAB-003a | At risk | Tear-off tabs (80% solution) | Bug 225680 | |
| TAB-003d | At risk | Improve discoverability and usability of undo close tab | ||
| TAB-004d | needs ui-review | Scrolling through tabs on tabstrip animation | Dão Gottwald and Michael Ventnor | Bug 347363 |
P3
| ID | Status | Requirement | Assignee | Bug/Design links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAB-003b | At risk | Try to do more intelligent things with the Tab title space | ||
| TAB-003c | At risk | Resizable tabs | ||
| TAB-004a | At risk | Transitioning between tabs animation | ||
| TAB-004b | needs ui-review | Opening/closing tabs animation | Dão Gottwald (closing only) | Bug 380960 |
| TAB-004c | At risk | Reordering tabs animation | ||
| TAB-005a | At risk | Add a pref to allow users to stop animations and plugins on background tabs | ||
| TAB-005b | At risk | Improve user control over undo close tab and session history |