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, 30 June 2011Concern over "Reset Firefox to it's default state" string
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* Firefox can accomplish this whether it be via the safe mode dialog or some other method thereby removing the two previously noted issues. It is magnitudes simpler for Firefox to understand profiles than it is to teach our Windows NSIS installer AND in the future the Windows MSI installer how to work with Firefox profiles. | * Firefox can accomplish this whether it be via the safe mode dialog or some other method thereby removing the two previously noted issues. It is magnitudes simpler for Firefox to understand profiles than it is to teach our Windows NSIS installer AND in the future the Windows MSI installer how to work with Firefox profiles. | ||
* If you really want this available from the Windows installer then a command line option can be added to Firefox to initiate the process in Firefox or a utility application if you prefer. This wouldn't solve the first issue noted above but it wouldn't make it any worse and then this capability would be available on all platforms instead of just Windows. : [[User:Robert Strong|Robert Strong]] 16:24, 27 April 2011 (PDT) | * If you really want this available from the Windows installer then a command line option can be added to Firefox to initiate the process in Firefox or a utility application if you prefer. This wouldn't solve the first issue noted above but it wouldn't make it any worse and then this capability would be available on all platforms instead of just Windows. : [[User:Robert Strong|Robert Strong]] 16:24, 27 April 2011 (PDT) | ||
== Scary string: "Reset Firefox to it's default state" == | |||
At several points in the UX mockups the phrase "Reset Firefox to it's default state" is used, without at the same time stating that history/bookmarks/passwords will be saved. The user first has to assess what "default state" could mean, choose to press "Reset Firefox" (without knowing that there is a confirmation page afterwards) - and only then is told that "default state" isn't as scary as it might otherwise be - since it does actually keep history/bookmarks/passwords/form data. | |||
I'm just slightly concerned that many people will be put off by the data-loss sounding nature of the "Reset Firefox to it's default state" string - and so be unnecessarily reluctant to choose that option. Use of the word "repair" as opposed to "reset" on the first page (before the changes are elaborated) might be one way to deal with this - or else a string along the lines of "Reset Firefox to it's default state (preserves X/Y/X)" --[[User:Edmorley|Ed Morley]] 01:12, 30 June 2011 (PDT) | |||