Features/Firefox/Improved plugin installation and management experience
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Status
| Improved plugin installation and management experience | |
| Stage | Planning |
| Status | ` |
| Release target | ` |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | ` |
Team
| Product manager | Sid Stamm |
| Directly Responsible Individual | ` |
| Lead engineer | Rob Strong |
| Security lead | ` |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | Henrik Skupin |
| UX lead | Jennifer Boriss |
| Product marketing lead | ` |
| Operations lead | ` |
| Additional members | Asa Dotzler |
Open issues/risks
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Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
Improve the user experience of installing and managing plugins.
Rob Strong says we can get (at least) Flash as part of a stub installer. We should focus on that. Also, Flash has a much better updater now. -- Asa
This feature may be related : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Features/Add_plugincheck_functionality_to_Add-on_Manager
2. Users & use cases
- Background update ("like addons")
- Content triggered plugin installation
- Content triggered plugin update
- User triggered plugin update
- Plugin triggered update (i.e. update check)
- User triggered plugin enabling/disabling
- User triggered plugin uninstall
- Some software installs a plugin the user is not aware of. The first time the plugin is activated by any given page, the user is:
- given a warning and user must opt-in before enabling or
- plugin is click-to-play until the user actives it
- ISSUE: Plugin remains on system until time of use.
- Highlight plugin check so that more users realize it exists and check their plugins.
3. Dependencies
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4. Requirements
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Non-goals
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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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Feature details
| Priority | Unprioritized |
| Rank | 999 |
| Theme / Goal | Product Hardening |
| Roadmap | Plugin Interactions |
| Secondary roadmap | Security |
| Feature list | Desktop |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | Desktop front-end |
Team status notes
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | ` | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
