Firefox/Features/about-crashes

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Status

Make crash reports helpful and easier to access
Stage	Definition
Status	`
Release target	`
Health	OK
Status note	Waiting for UX input.

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Team

Product manager	`
Directly Responsible Individual	Sheila Mooney
Lead engineer	Blair McBride
Security lead	`
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	Vlad Ghetiu (irc: vladg)
UX lead	Alex Limi
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Improve about:crashes to be more helpful and easier to access crash reports.

2. Users & use cases

Average user

• Get links to recent crash report(s) for SUMO
  • Submit first, if necessary
• Tell SUMO how often a crash is occuring
• Disable add-on suspected of causing crash (assuming it hasn't been blocklisted)

Technical user / Developer

• Gather more information when its needed to debug the crash

3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

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Non-goals

• Will not change the way crash reports are gathered/submitted.
• Is not a replacement for crash-stats.
• Will not provide all information that crash-stats provides.

Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

Additional information to expose

• Date/time of crash
• Related SUMO articles
• Related bugs
• Whether it's been submitted or not (currently hidden in the obscure format of the ID)
• User comment
• Whether we (Mozilla) want additional information to help diagnose the crash
• Whether it's known/suspected to be caused by a certain addon
  • Include a button to disable that addon

Potentially useful info for technical users (toggle-able via hidden pref?):

• Crash signature

Notes

• Group by date range?
  • Makes it easier to see time-based trends
• Remove usage of "bp-" syntax
  • Obscure way to expose whether something is submitted already, or will be submitted by clicking link
  • Removing this will make pasting-into-Bugzilla fail :( We can de-emphasize the UUIDs, but when providing a list to paste, we should keep the prefix. Jesse 04:32, 21 April 2011 (PDT)

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

Vaguely related bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336872

Related project: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crash-report-helper/

Related project: https://wiki.mozilla.org/PostCrash

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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• Get links to recent crash report(s) for SUMO
  • Submit first, if necessary
• Tell SUMO how often a crash is occuring
• Disable add-on suspected of causing crash (assuming it hasn't been blocklisted)

Technical user / Developer

• Gather more information when its needed to debug the crash

|Feature dependencies=` |Feature requirements=` |Feature non-goals=* Will not change the way crash reports are gathered/submitted.

• Is not a replacement for crash-stats.
• Will not provide all information that crash-stats provides.

|Feature functional spec===== Additional information to expose ====

• Date/time of crash
• Related SUMO articles
• Related bugs
• Whether it's been submitted or not (currently hidden in the obscure format of the ID)
• User comment
• Whether we (Mozilla) want additional information to help diagnose the crash
• Whether it's known/suspected to be caused by a certain addon
  • Include a button to disable that addon

Potentially useful info for technical users (toggle-able via hidden pref?):

• Crash signature

Notes

• Group by date range?
  • Makes it easier to see time-based trends
• Remove usage of "bp-" syntax
  • Obscure way to expose whether something is submitted already, or will be submitted by clicking link
  • Removing this will make pasting-into-Bugzilla fail :( We can de-emphasize the UUIDs, but when providing a list to paste, we should keep the prefix. Jesse 04:32, 21 April 2011 (PDT)

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Related project: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crash-report-helper/

Related project: https://wiki.mozilla.org/PostCrash |Feature landing criteria=` }}

Feature details

Priority	P3
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	`
Roadmap	User Support
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Desktop
Project	`
Engineering team	Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

	status	notes
Products	tbd	`
Engineering	tbd	`
Security	tbd	`
Privacy	tbd	`
Localization	tbd	`
Accessibility	tbd	`
Quality assurance	tbd	`
User experience	tbd	`
Product marketing	`	`
Operations	`	`

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