Firefox3/Product Requirements Document

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The Firefox 3 PRD Spreadsheet is still available here. This page will also be kept up to date. Please link relevant bugs and design documents in the "Bugs/Design links" column.

This page is being updated, but the following link is current and allows some useful data manipulation:

PRD Data

Add-ons

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
ADD-003e Complete Unify add-ons management system and add plugin management system Michael Wu bug 382367 for backend changes. bug 339056 for frontend changes. bug 391730 for tracking remaining work.
ADD-003h Complete Support shipping of localized user-facing addon text Dave Townsend bug 257155 Implementation Spec

P2

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
ADD-001a Complete Add-ons can be installed in fewer mouse clicks Dave Townsend bug 252830 removed whitelist steps AMO is integrated into the Manager, but that was not part of the original req.
ADD-001b Ensure user understands the risks about installing extensions Mike Connor
ADD-001c Complete Clarify XPi install dialogs and user interactions Mike Connor Mockups
ADD-01d Complete Remove extension installation whitelist Dave Townsend bug 252830 note: the (xpinstall) whitelist is for both plugins and extensions
ADD-002a Complete Allow Add-on configuration UI to be accessed from main application configuration UI Robert Strong bug 384956 (same as ADD-002b)
ADD-002b Complete Improve discoverability of Add-on configuration UI Robert Strong bug 384956 (same as ADD-002a)
ADD-003a Complete Add visual indication to browser UI when Add-on updates are available Dave Townsend Fx3 fix implemented in bug 394645, will re-evaluate whether this is enough for Fx4
ADD-003b Complete Add permanent button for restarting Firefox Dão Gottwald bug 369075. The button now appears in a notification only when needed.
ADD-003d Simplify language and unify terminology related to Add-ons Robert Strong
ADD-003g Complete Support displaying information about the update in the updater Dave Townsend bug 297903 Would be more useful with bug 102699
ADD-003j cut Support add-on conflict resolution Dave Townsend bug 382312 Proposed Implementation - needs review by submitter (shaver?)
ADD-005b Promote the existence of Add-ons that could help the user accomplish their current task Same as ADD-005d
ADD-005c Help documents should link to related Add-on categories on addons.mozilla.org
ADD-006a Complete 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 Requires backend changes to do this reasonably
ADD-003c At risk Simplify task flow for updating single addons ??? This was add button for single extension update check
ADD-003f At risk Allow addons to control other types of extensions and ensuring that model is extensible ??? Needs definition from submitter
ADD-003i At risk Support for use of some kind of service for extension dependency resolution Previous spec
ADD-004a Complete Making signing a requirement or higher value in install experience
ADD-004b At risk Providing a lower priv model for certain classes of extension Requires backend changes
ADD-005a At risk Improve quality of results from Plugin Finders Same as CON-002b - AMO and Plugin Finder Service
ADD-005d At risk Small "Add-on" button on managers, dialogs, etc. which links directly to related Add-on categories in AMO bug 384125

Content handling

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
CON-001a Complete Support web services as protocol handlers Dan Mosedale, Myk Melez, Shawn Wilsher bug 380415 and dependents 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 In Progress Simplify content handling UI Dan Mosedale bug 377782, Feature Requirements
CON-003b Complete Create an easy-to-use MIME type handling configuration system Myk Melez 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 cut Identify ways to mitigate plugin crashes Johnny?
CON-004a Complete Revised downloads manager Shawn Wilsher bug 377792, Feature Requirements
CON-005b Complete Easier retrieval of files that a user has downloaded in the past Shawn Wilsher bug 377793
CON-006a Complete Integrate download manager with third-party virus scanners and malware protection Rob Arnold bug 103487
CON-007a Complete Support pause/resume for downloads. Improve download handling across multiple sessions Michael Wu 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 Tracking 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 On Track 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 On Track Branding will not be easily removable by end users except through a full uninstall of the branded Firefox Dan Mills
DIST-001c On Track Security and stability releases/upgrades to Firefox will be smoothly delivered without requiring customized partner builds to be generated Dan Mills
DIST-001d On Track 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 On Track All customizations of text must include full support of Unicode (UTF-8) Dan Mills
DIST-001f On Track 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 On Track Ability to customize vanilla Firefox with a group of settings Dan Mills
DIST-002b On Track Support for creating distributions that support Windows (.exe) Dan Mills
DIST-002d On Track Support for creating distributions of any existing Firefox locale build Dan Mills
DIST-003a On Track 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 that 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 Complete Pass ACID 2 test David Baron Fixed by reflow branch, see GKO-009b
GKO-007a on track, some ui patches are already there, targeted for M11 Add UI elements for enabling offline app usage Dave Camp bug 394392
GKO-007b On track for M11
/mw22 - need to ask
Add backend elements for offline app support Dave Camp bug 367447
GKO-008a Complete Cairo graphics Vlad Vukicevic bug 322938
GKO-008b Complete Cocoa widgets on Mac Josh Aas
GKO-008c Only chrome->chrome frame trees are linked for Gecko1.9, see comment 67 and further in the mentioned bug Linking Content/Chrome Frame Trees Robert O'Callahan bug 130078
GKO-008g Complete nxTextFrame migration to Thebes Robert O'Callahan bug 367177
GKO-008h Complete Frame Display Lists Robert O'Callahan bug 317375
GKO-009b Complete Reflow branch David Baron bug 300030
GKO-009c Complete Caret painting rewrite Blake Kaplan bug 287813
GKO-015a Complete Cross-domain XMLHttpRequest Jonas Sicking bug 389508
GKO-016b Complete Killing nested event queues, threadmanager darinf bug 326273
GKO-016c Complete Graydon's Cycle Collector Graydon/Peterv bug 333078

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 bug 162659
GKO-006a Native form controls and HTML content for Mac OS Josh Aas
GKO-008d Hoist plugins to toplevel children Robert O'Callahan bug 339548
GKO-008e Widget removal Robert O'Callahan bug 352093
GKO-008f View Removal Robert O'Callahan
GKO-009a Complete Fix units in Gecko Eli Friedman
GKO-016e Cache item pinning for offline support Dave Camp bug 396222?
GKO-018 Support for Quartz Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI)
GKO-019 Complete Support for ContentEditable Peterv bug 237964

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 In Progress Make it easier for users to solve their problems and engage with our support community JT Batson
HELP-003a In Progress Make it easier to get rapid feedback on problems being encountered by users JT Batson

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-002a In Progress Collect crash stack data and report it to central server Ted Mielczarek Socorro design
OSPI-002b In Progress Improve usability of crash report UI Ted Mielczarek, Dave Camp bug 358082, bug 380540
OSPI-004a Complete Integrate with Windows Vista parental controls Jim Mathies bug 355554

P2

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
OSPI-001b Complete 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 Complete Handle OS Shutdown sanely on Windows/Linux (dataloss/odd UI) Michael Wu Bug 333907
OSPI-008a In progress Support IAccessible2 on Windows Aaron Leventhal, Alexander Surkov Bug 368873
OSPI-001a cut Build system should create a MSI/MSP bundle (Windows only) Jim Mathies Bug 231062

P3

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
OSPI-003a cut Allow IT administrators to create group profile policies via the Windows Group Policy Object (GPO) Bug 267888
OSPI-007a In Progress Support ATK (accessibility API) on Linux Aaron Leventhal, Ginn Chen Bug 368881

Password, Identity

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
PASS-001a Complete Only ask the user to 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 cut Simplify and promote the use of Master Password Justin Dolske
PASS-003a cut Generate hashed passwords for increased security (ref: pwdhash) Justin Dolske, Robert Sayre bug 376674
PASS-003c cut 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 Complete: code changes landed, community/extension outreach ongoing Provide platform support to enable syncing of Places data-model 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 Complete: code changes landed, outreach ongoing Ensure that Places includes a usable and robust API for extensibility Places Team bug 374520
PLCS-002a In Progress. Places Organizer landed but does not have support for downloads Unified user interface that improves the usability and discoverability of features Places Team bug 374521
PLCS-002b Complete 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 Complete Make it easy for users to export their bookmarks for use in another application Places Team bug 374529
PLCS-005a Complete 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 deprioritize Build a sync client on the new sync infrastructure Places Team bug 374519
PLCS-002c Complete; "Starring" UI Provide some UI that allows users to mark a URI as "interesting" Places Team bug 374522
PLCS-002d Complete 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 cut 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 Complete Create framework for persisting and applying per-site settings across sessions and tabs Myk Melez bug 378547
PREF-001b Complete Persist zoom for sites Myk Melez bug 378549

Security, Privacy

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
SPI-001a Complete Better UI indication of encryption, identity, previous interaction/knowledge of site and security/privacy context Johnathan Nightingale bug 377076
SPI-001b Complete Support website identity validation mechanism (ref: EV Certificates) Johnathan Nightingale/NSS Team bug 383183
SPI-001g Complete Simplify dialogs around certificate errors Johnathan Nightingale/Kaie bug 327181
SPI-001i Complete Chromeless popup windows should have some forced chrome Johnathan Nightingale bug 337344
SPI-003b In Progress
  • Backend complete
  • User notification and Add-ons manager integration in progress
Countermeasures for Java/plugin/extension vulnerabilities (disable, warn, offer updates) Michael Wu bug 271559 and bug 330511. bug 391731 for tracking remaining work.
SPI-003c Public discussion happening Content restriction - Allow web authors to restrict scripts in headers Jonas Sicking and Robert Sayre

P2

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
SPI-001d Complete, by virtue of SPI-001b & SPI-001k User should be able to determine the "identity" of a website when that information is available Johnathan Nightingale bug 377076, bug 383183
SPI-001e Complete, by virtue of SPI-001k Provide UI for displaying summary of security signals Johnathan Nightingale bug 377076
SPI-001f WIP Patch Simplify the UI around presenting certificates Johnathan Nightingale bug 380775
SPI-001h Complete Improve dialogs/alerts related to security Johnathan Nightingale bug 341472
SPI-001j Patch in Review Unify terminology and metaphors for "blocked malicious content" Johnathan Nightingale bug 399233
SPI-001k Complete Enhanced Security Tab in Page Info Johnathan Nightingale bug 377076
SPI-002a deprioritized 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 In progress Blacklisting of malicious websites Johnathan Nightingale (front end) / Dave Camp (back end) bug 380932 for front end
SPI-003d Tighten the same-origin policy for local files (file: URLs, trusted, security) DVeditz
SPI-003f In progress for malware sites 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 Complete Support search engine shortcut keys Ryan Flint bug 378553
SRCH-001d Complete Resizable search bar Neil Deakin bug 267831
SRCH-001e Complete Replace answers.com with Wikipedia bug 380785, added not replaced

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 On Track Deliver new Firefox theme Mike Beltzner OS X Theme:bug 397723
VIS-001b In Progress Revise Firefox chrome Mike Beltzner

P2

No P2's

P3

No P3's

Tabbed browsing

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
TAB-006a On track Data-loss issue related to tabs/windows Mike Connor bug 175124

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 bug 385211? bug 395980?
TAB-003a At risk Tear-off tabs (80% solution) bug 225680
TAB-003d At risk Improve discoverability and usability of undo close tab bug 357235
TAB-004d Complete 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 review Opening/closing tabs animation Dão Gottwald (closing only) bug 380960
TAB-004c At risk Reordering tabs animation bug 410972
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

Installer

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
INST-001a Complete Support a .exe installer on Windows Robert Strong NSIS Installer implemented for Firefox 2.0
INST-001b Complete Support a DMG installer on Mac OS X
INST-001c Complete Support for "scripted" installations (ie, command line options) Robert Strong Support for specifying a configuration file added for Firefox 2.0. Specification
INST-001d Complete Support for silent install (no UI) Robert Strong Support for silent installs added for Firefox 2.0. Specification
INST-003a Complete Uninstall should offer removal of profiles (for user performing uninstall) Robert Strong bug 398434
INST-003b Complete Uninstall should remove all Windows registry entries Robert Strong bug 393149, bug 389244, and bug 369997
INST-004a Complete Install as a non-admin user on Vista Robert Strong bug 370571

P2

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
INST-005a In Progress Support reading in a localizable string with a partner name Robert Strong bug 399665, bug 399921, and bug 399928
INST-006a At risk Ability to allow optional installation (check/uncheck) of bundled add-ons bug 400034

P3

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
INST-007a Complete Support replacing images in the wizard Robert Strong bug 399381