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* [[Firefox/Projects/3.7 and 4.0 Theme and UI Revamp|New Theme]] for Windows, OS X, Linux ( | == UX Priorities for the upcoming Firefox release == | ||
* [[Firefox/Projects/Home Tab|Home Tab and App Tabs]] ( | |||
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/ | * [[Firefox/Projects/3.7 and 4.0 Theme and UI Revamp|New Theme]] for Windows, OS X, Linux (Horlander + everyone) — includes: | ||
** Site identity improvements | |||
** URL bar improvements | |||
** Tabs on top/bottom capabilities | |||
** App menu and general menu cleanup | |||
** Toolbar cleanup (ie. combined stop/reload/go buttons) | |||
** Site-centric prefs (zoom level, geolocation permissions, other) | |||
** Personas testing | |||
** [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Tab_animation Better animation and affordances, especially when dragging tabs] (drag, detach, close) | |||
** Improved progress bar | |||
** Recently closed tabs in the tabs menu | |||
* [[Firefox/Projects/Home Tab|Home Tab and App Tabs]] (Faaborg/Limi) — the simplest thing that can work, probably just a browser-hosted search page for the home tab for now, as well as basic support for app tabs | |||
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Doorhanger_notifications Notifications] (Faaborg) — includes web app notifications from app tabs and [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Eradicate_Startup_Dialogs elimination of unnecessary notifications and dialogs] in the current interface. | |||
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Extension_Manager:UI_Update Extension manager redesign] (Boriss) — the first part of the larger Prefs redesign, exploring content-hosted preferences and a simpler setup. | |||
* [[Firefox/Projects/Download manager improvements|Download Manager + MIME type improvements]] (Limi) — includes better defaults for common file types, cleaning up the Applications pref panel, better file type indicators, binary content (PDF, MP3, video, Office) in-browser display + cursor indicator. | |||
== Smaller side projects that could be backported to 3.6.x == | |||
* [[Firefox/Projects/Resource Packages|Resource Packages]] (Vlad/Limi until we have resourcing sorted out here) — This should be pretty straightforward, and Limi will provide numbers and pretty graphs as part of testing & evangelism. Chrome has expressed interest, I think we can get Opera on board too, once we have some real-world numbers. | |||
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Improve_Mac_installer Mac installer improvements] (Taras, Joel? + Limi on UI & dialogs) — includes compression-on-install for Snow Leopard, autodetecting that you're starting FF from outside of the Applications folder, etc. | |||
Less eligible for backport, but a useful thing we can land: | |||
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Tab_Matches_in_Awesomebar Tab matching in AwesomeBar] + retiring the old URL dialog (limi) | * [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Tab_Matches_in_Awesomebar Tab matching in AwesomeBar] + retiring the old URL dialog (limi) | ||
== Stretch goals == | |||
Depending on release scope and duration, we might look at these, in unprioritized order: | |||
* [[Firefox/Projects/Preferences UI|Prefs cleanup]] to match what we do with Extension Manager, site-centric cookies/geolocation/passwords etc. | |||
* More capable Home tab | |||
* Improve toolbar customization UI | |||
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Places_UI Places improvements] | |||
* Improving the "major update dialog" (faaborg) | * Improving the "major update dialog" (faaborg) | ||
* Turn off unneeded system level notifications (growl, toast) users don't need real time updates about updates (faaborg) | * Turn off unneeded system level notifications (growl, toast) users don't need real time updates about updates (faaborg) | ||
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* Theme change for private browsing mode | * Theme change for private browsing mode | ||
== Other polish areas == | |||
Note that we should be using the polish [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Polish whiteboard terms and target field in bugzilla] to generate this list | Note that we should be using the polish [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Polish whiteboard terms and target field in bugzilla] to generate this list | ||
* Tab switching shortcuts still missing on Mac. This is the most common complaint I hear from Safari users. (limi) | * Tab switching shortcuts still missing on Mac. This is the most common complaint I hear from Safari users. (limi) | ||