« Firefox/Feature Brainstorming
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- Automatic updates
- For those who opt out of auto-update, provide a "remind me later" feature
- Allow users to select type of updates they want (security? feature?)
- Allow users to revert to previous version
- Better background downloading support (i.e. background downloads using idle bandwidth, easy on Windows with native pieces, harder elsewhere afaik)
- Enable users to "bundle" extensions, bookmarks and other profile preferences into a package which can be deployed on multiple systems easily.
- Make automatic updates work on Windows without need for logging in as administrator — automatic updates service or scheduler task.
- Make the automatic updates feature optional at build time. Some users would prefer their system's package manager to handle software updates.
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bug 303595
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- Manual updates
- Regarding the "Help" -> "Check for updates" function: When no updates are available, Firefox tells the user that it may check periodically for new updates without giving any clues or functions on how the user can tune this functionality. I suggest to implement a UI regarding the setup of the update policy here so that the user right there in the dialogue box can tune the update policy without needing to open the Options dialogue box.
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- Changelogs
- The update system should notify users about features implemented in the new versions.
- Security updates: when some flaw(s) is(are) no longer kept in secret, the updater must display the list of threats, color-coded severity, etc.
- Major updates: display the list of new features.
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| General tasks |
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- Improve UE for automatic updates so it is less instrusive/shocking
- Improve UI for updates so it's easier to understand what you will be getting
- Clean up major/incompat update UI
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Provide a more advanced export so bookmarks and bookmark settings as well as Toolbar settings are saved.
Then provide a way to completely remove Firefox from Windows. The Mozilla folders under Application Data and Program files would be removed too. This is a must to be able to fix certain problems.
Once Firefox is installed the advanced import would quickly restore all your favorite settings.
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