Features/Desktop/Firefox Home Tab
Status
| Firefox Home Tab | |
| Stage | Development |
| Status | In progress |
| Release target | ` |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | prototype on the UX branch |
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Team
| Product manager | Asa Dotzler |
| Directly Responsible Individual | Asa Dotzler |
| Lead engineer | ` |
| Security lead | ` |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | ` |
| UX lead | Alex Faaborg |
| 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.
Wiki page with additional information -- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Home_Tab
We will break this feature into two phases:
Phase 1
- Default the home tab to the left of the tab strip that always loads on startup
Phase 2
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
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Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
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Wiki page with additional information -- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Home_Tab
We will break this feature into two phases:
Phase 1
- Default the home tab to the left of the tab strip that always loads on startup
Phase 2
|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
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Feature details
| Priority | P1 |
| Rank | 999 |
| Theme / Goal | Discover |
| Roadmap | Firefox Desktop |
| Secondary roadmap | ` |
| Feature list | Desktop |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | ` |
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Team status notes
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | ` | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
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