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.

Add-ons

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
ADD-003e Unify add-ons management system and add plugin management system Rob Strong
ADD-003h Support shipping of localized user-facing addon text Rob Strong

P2

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
ADD-001a Add-ons can be installed in fewer mouse clicks Rob Strong
ADD-001b Ensure user understands the risks about installing extensions Rob Strong
ADD-001c Clarify XPi install dialogs and user interactions Rob Strong
ADD-01d Help wanted Remove extension installation whitelist Rob Strong
ADD-001e At risk Install Add-on without requiring a browser resetart Rob Strong
ADD-002a Allow Add-on configuration UI to be accessed from main application configuration UI Rob Strong
ADD-002b Improve discoverability of Add-on configuration UI Rob Strong
ADD-003a Add visual indication to browser UI when Add-on updates are available Rob Strong
ADD-003b Add permanent button for restarting Firefox Rob Strong
ADD-003d Simplify language and unify terminology related to Add-ons Rob Strong
ADD-003g Support displaying information about the update in the updater Rob Strong
ADD-003j Support add-on conflict resolution Rob Strong
ADD-005b Promote the existence of Add-ons that could help the user accomplish their current task Rob Strong
ADD-005c Help documents should link to related Add-on categories on addons.mozilla.org
ADD-006a Ship the FUEL JavaScript library

P3

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
ADD-003c At risk Simplify task flow for updating single addons
ADD-003f At risk Allow addons to control other types of extensions and ensuring that model is extensible
ADD-003i At risk Support for use of some kind of service for extension dependency resolution
ADD-004a At risk Making signing a requirement or higher value in install experience
ADD-004b At risk Providing a lower priv model for certain classes of extension
ADD-005a At risk Improve quality of results from Plugin Finders
ADD-005d At risk Small "Add-on" button on managers, dialogs, etc. which links directly to related Add-on categories in AMO

Content handling

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
CON-001a Support web services as MIME type handlers Dan Mosedale
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 Simplify content handling UI Dan Mosedale

P2

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
CON-001b Minimize/remove local MIME type database for local applications Dan Mosedale
CON-002c Needs def Identify ways to mitigate plugin crashes
CON-003b Create an easy-to-use MIME type handling configuration system Dan Mosedale
CON-004a Needs def Revised downloads manager Dan Mosedale
CON-005b Easier retrieval of files that a user has downloaded in the past Dan Mosedale
CON-006a Integrate download manager with third-party virus scanners and malware protection Dan Mosedale
CON-007a Support pause/resume for downloads. Improve download handling across multiple sessions Dan Mosedale
CON-008a At risk Create document-parsing framework for detecting microformats
CON-008b At risk Create API for developers to leverage the microformat detection framework

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 At risk Display microformats in content area
CON-009b At risk Allow user to configure microformat handlers
CON-009c At risk Support hCard, hCal, and geo
CON-009e At risk Allow web developers to override microformat display attributes
CON-010a At risk Simplify the print preview dialog

Distribution

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
DIST-001a Smooth upgrade while retaining branding customizations Dan Mills
DIST-001b Ability to lock in branding (cannot be uninstalled easily) Dan Mills

Gecko/Platform

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
GKO-004a Pass ACID 2 test David Baron
GKO-007a Add UI elements for enabling offline app usage Chris Double
GKO-007b Add backend elements for offline app support Chris Double
GKO-008a Cairo graphics Vlad Vukicevic
GKO-008b Cocoa widgets on Mac Josh Aas
GKO-008c Linking Content/Chrome Frame Trees Robert O'Callahan
GKO-008g nxTextFrame migration to Thebes Robert O'Callahan
GKO-008h Frame Display Lists Robert O'Callahan
GKO-009c Caret painting rewrite Blake Kaplan
GKO-013a P3? Language-agnostic DOM
GKO-015a Cross-domain XMLHttpRequest Jonas Sicking
GKO-016b Killing nested event queues Shebs ??
GKO-016c Graydon's Cycle Collector Graydon/Peterv

P2

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
GKO-001a At risk Printed pages should break without breaking lines
GKO-001b At risk Print layout and preview layout should look identical
GKO-001c At risk Print layout should be zoomed/cropped to fit desired page size
GKO-001d At risk Printed material should match user expectations
GKO-002a At risk Change "Do you want to resend the request?" dialog to an error page
GKO-002b At risk Form content management, loss prevention
GKO-005a Save web pages as PDF documents Stuart Parmenter
GKO-006a Native form controls and HTML content for Mac OS Josh Aas
GKO-008d Hoist plugins to toplevel children Robert O'Callahan
GKO-008e Widget removal Robert O'Callahan
GKO-008f View Removal Robert O'Callahan
GKO-009a Fix units in Gecko Eli Friedman
GKO-009b P1? Reflow branch David Baron
GKO-012a No Go JavaScript 2 Brendan, Graydon
GKO-016e Cache item pinning for offline support Dave Camp
GKO-018 Support for Quartz Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI)
GKO-019 Support for ContentEditable

P3

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
GKO-003a At risk Provide infrastructure for and extensible Web page archiving system
GKO-009d Residual style handling Blake Kaplan
GKO-010a XUL Transform support Vlad Vukicevic
GKO-011a No Go XBL2 Jonas Sicking
GKO-014a At risk SVG as image format
GKO-016a At risk Firefox on XULRunner (and shipping XULRunner platform) Benjamin Smedberg
GKO-016d At risk XPCOM restart in-process Benjamin Smedberg
GKO-016f At risk, Needs def Offline web browsing Dave Camp, Robert O'Callahan
GKO-017a At risk ATK support rearchitecture Stan Shebs?
GKO-017b At risk Mac OS X accessibility support Aaron Leventhal?

User support

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
HELP-002b Make it easier for users to solve their problems and engage with our support community
HELP-003a Make it easier to get rapid feedback on problems being encountered by users

P2

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
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

P3

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
HELP-006a Showcase breadth of customization updates

OS platform integration

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
OSPI-001a At risk Build system should create a MSI/MSP bundle (Windows only)
OSPI-002a Collect crash stack data and report it to central server Ted Mielczarek
OSPI-002b Improve usability of crash report UI Ted Mielczarek
OSPI-004a At risk Integrate with Windows Vista parental controls Doug Turner

P2

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
OSPI-001b At risk Version detection for Windows - Vista vs XP since we may want to have a different theme for each. Installation configuration piece
OSPI-005a Growl alert notifications for Mac OS X Shawn Wilsher
OSPI-006a At risk, Need help When logging out in Linux it crashes Firefox - it doesn't quit, it just dies, also true with Windows
OSPI-007a At risk Support ATK (accessibility API) on Linux
OSPI-008a At risk Support IAccessible 2 on Windows

P3

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
OSPI-003a At risk Allow IT administrators to create group profile policies via the Windows Group Policy Object (GPO)

Password, Identity

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
PASS-001a Only let the user save hte password after they know the login has succeeded Justin Dolske bug 226735
PASS-001b Store more precise UIRs for autofilling user IDs and passwords Justin Dolske [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 Simplify and promote the use of Master Password Justin Dolske
PASS-002a At risk Support Microsoft CardSpace on Windows Justin Dolske
PASS-002b At risk Support OpenID Justin Dolske
PASS-003a Generate hashed passwords for increased security (ref: pwdhash) Justin Dolske, Robert Sayre bug 376674
PASS-003c OS-level secure password storage integration Justin Dolske bug 106400

P3

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
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 Provide platform support to enable syncing of Places datamodel objects to a remote server Places Team
PLCS-001c Provide platform support to support generic annotations Places Team
PLCS-001d Ensure that Places includes a usable and robust API for extensibility Places Team
PLCS-002a Unified user interface that improves the usability and discoverability of features Places Team
PLCS-002b Parity with Firefox 2 Bookmarks/History UI Places Team
PLCS-003a Protection and safeguarding against data loss Places Team
PLCS-003b Bookmark data is never lost between browsing sessions Places Team
PLCS-003c Provide backup and restore functionality for bookmarks Places Team
PLCS-005a Improve performance (as measured by memory use, transactional speed, and Ts) of bookmark and history storage and retrieval operations Places Team

P2

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
PLCS-001b Build a sync client on the new sync infrastructure Places Team
PLCS-002c Provide some UI that allows users to mark a URI as "interesting" Places Team
PLCS-002d Provide some UI that allows users to annotate a URI with tags Places Team
PLCS-003d Make it easy for users to export their bookmarks for use in another application Places Team
PLCS-004a Index web page content into a DB that can be queried Places Team
PLCS-004b Allow users to search on all available URI metadata Places Team

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
PLCS-004c At risk Support SQL queries of the bookmarks database in the Error Console

Security, Privacy

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
SPI-001a Better UI indication of encryption, identity, previous interaction/knowledge of site and security/privacy context Johnathan Nightingale bug 377076
SPI-001b Support website identity validation mechanism (ref: EV Certificates) Johnathan Nightingale
SPI-001g Simplify dialogs around certificate errors Johnathan Nightingale
SPI-001i Chromeless popup windows should have some forced chrome Johnathan Nightingale bug 337344
SPI-003b At risk Countermeasures for Java/plugin/extension vulnerabilities (disable, warn, offer updates) jst? fx team?
SPI-003c Content restriction - Allow web authors to restrict scripts in headers Jonas and Sayre?

P2

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
SPI-001d User should be able to determine the "identity" of a website when that information is available Johnathan Nightingale bug 377076
SPI-001e Provide UI for displaying summary of security signals Johnathan Nightingale bug 377076
SPI-001f Simplify the UI around presenting certificates Johnathan Nightingale
SPI-001h Improve dialogs/alerts related to security Johnathan Nightingale bug 377076
SPI-001j Unify terminology and metaphors for "blocked malicious content" Johnathan Nightingale
SPI-001k Enhanced Security Tab in Page Info Johnathan Nightingale bug 377076
SPI-002a At risk Create a "private browsing mode" for Firefox - local client only
SPI-002b At risk Indicate privacy status in primary UI
SPI-003a Blacklisting of malicious websites Tony Chang
SPI-003d Tighten the same-origin policy for local files (file: URLs, trusted, security) DVeditz
SPI-003f At risk Extend Phishing Protection to include malware sites and Add-ons

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 Support search engine shortcut keys Gavin Sharp
SRCH-001c Needs def Rich search results Gavin Sharp
SRCH-001d Resizable search bar Neil Deakin

P3

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
SRCH-001a At risk Easy-to-understand UI
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

Tabbed browsing

P1

ID Status Requirement Assignee Bug/Design links
TAB-006a Data-loss issue related to tabs/windows

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
TAB-003a At risk Tear-off tabs (80% solution)
TAB-003d At risk Improve discoverability and usability of undo close tab
TAB-004d Scrolling through tabs on tabstrip animation Michael Ventor

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 At risk Opening/closing tabs animation
TAB-004c At risk Reordering tabs animation
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