Extension Manager:Projects:Confirm on Upgrade

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Status

Confirm add-ons on upgrade
Stage Landed
Status Complete
Release target Firefox 8
Health OK
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Team

Product manager Justin Scott
Directly Responsible Individual Dave Townsend
Lead engineer Dave Townsend
Security lead Curtis Koenig
Privacy lead `
Localization lead `
Accessibility lead `
QA lead Vlad Maniac
UX lead Alex Faaborg
Product marketing lead `
Operations lead `
Additional members Unfocused, rs (available reviewers)

Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Then next time existing users upgrade Firefox they should be presented with a list of add-ons they have installed where they can choose to disable them. By default add-ons from third-parties which may have been installed without the users' knowledge will be disabled. This replaces the compatibility wizard for that one time upgrade, subsequent upgrades use the compatibility wizard still.


This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)

2. Users & use cases

Goals

  • Do compatibility and update checks for all installed extensions
  • Show users a list of installed extensions
  • Allow disabling extensions before startup

Use cases

  • User with no installed add-ons
    • Should not see any UI on startup
  • User who hasn't manually installed add-ons but has some installed by a third-party app
    • If any add-ons are enabled user will periodically see the list of add-ons
    • User can choose which of the add-ons to keep enabled, by default all will be disabled
  • User who has only manually installed add-ons
    • If any add-ons are enabled user will periodically see the list of add-ons
    • User can choose which of the add-ons to keep enabled, by default none will be disabled
    • Any available updates for add-ons will be installed if automatic installation is enabled
  • User has both manually installed and third-party installed add-ons
    • If any add-ons are enabled user will periodically see the list of add-ons
    • User can choose which of the add-ons to keep enabled, by default the third-party installed add-ons will be disabled
    • Any available updates for the manually installed add-ons will be installed if automatic installation is enabled

3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

  • Developed UI must pass UI review
  • Feature should be covered by automated tests

Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

These are the different states that an add-on can be in and what message we should show in the action column for them.

In all cases if an update is available and automatic updating is enabled then the update is installed (even though in some cases that isn't mentioned in the action message).

If an update is available and automatic updating is disabled then if the user doesn't want the add-on the update is never offered, if the user wants to keep the add-on then the user has the option to install the update (which in some cases is required for the add-on to work).

Was active Is compatible Update available User keeps User disables
No No No "will be enabled when compatible" --
No No Automatic "will be updated to be compatible" --
No No Manual "update to make compatible" (checkbox) --
No Yes No -- --
No Yes Automatic -- --
No Yes Manual "optional update" (checkbox) --
Yes No No "will be enabled when compatible" "will be disabled"
Yes No Automatic "will be updated to be compatible" "will be disabled"
Yes No Manual "update to make compatible" (checkbox) "will be disabled"
Yes Yes No -- "will be disabled"
Yes Yes Automatic -- "will be disabled"
Yes Yes Manual "optional update" (checkbox) "will be disabled"

6. User experience design

Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

  • No formal security review necessary.

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

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Feature details

Priority P1
Rank 999
Theme / Goal `
Roadmap Add-ons
Secondary roadmap `
Feature list Desktop
Project `
Engineering team Desktop front-end

Team status notes

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Products Pending blog post `
Engineering ` `
Security pass `
Privacy ` `
Localization ` `
Accessibility ` `
Quality assurance active Test Plan
User experience ` `
Product marketing ` `
Operations ` `