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|Feature open issues and risks=* Performance or memory degradation
|Feature open issues and risks=* Performance or memory degradation
* Likely relies on projects not yet completed (log into browser, sync, browserID)
|Feature overview=Whenever Firefox users open a new tab, their goal is to use it to navigate somewhere.  Firefox currently displays a blank page when Firefox users open a new page.  This is guaranteed to not help them perform their next task.
|Feature overview=Whenever Firefox users open a new tab, their goal is to use it to navigate somewhere.  Firefox currently displays a blank page when Firefox users open a new page.  This is guaranteed to not help them perform their next task.


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* '''Don't leave current users in the lurch.'''  While the features NT2 presents will change and some will move, users will not be left unable to find functionality they need
* '''Don't leave current users in the lurch.'''  While the features NT2 presents will change and some will move, users will not be left unable to find functionality they need
* Non-goal: Combine all the features of Home Tab and New Tab into one page.  Currently, these two pages offer users different options, but a successful design for v2 will curate content strategically in the way that produces the best user experience.  Any item present on the page must have a rationale to be displayed other than historical design.
* Non-goal: Combine all the features of Home Tab and New Tab into one page.  Currently, these two pages offer users different options, but a successful design for v2 will curate content strategically in the way that produces the best user experience.  Any item present on the page must have a rationale to be displayed other than historical design.
 
|Feature users and use cases=* A user opens Firefox to begin a browsing task such as checking email, social networking, or reading the news
Display:
* A user opens a new Firefox tab to complete a task such as navigating to a website, mapping a location, doing a math problem, or checking the spelling of a word
 
* A users closes their laptop at home and runs to catch a bus, taking their Android device with them
* Titles of top sites
* A user shares a family computer with her children, but wants to make sure they’re not exposed to the websites she visits
 
* A user is backpacking far from his home computer and uses an internet cafe communicate while traveling
Customization:
|Feature non-goals=* Engage users at all costs.  A successful design will passively present our best guess as to what users will find useful, but not any content that the user might find interesting.  Distraction from the user’s intended task is not acceptable.
 
* Combine all the features of Home Tab and New Tab into one page.  Currently, these two pages offer users different options, but a successful design for v2 will curate content strategically in the way that produces the best user experience.  Any item present on the page must have a rationale to be displayed other than historical design.
* Ability to remove a particular top site from new tab page
* Brand overload.  The home and new tab see a great deal of user traffic, and temptation to introduce Mozilla’s latest products and services here will be high.  However, the focus of these pages is on users, not on Mozilla.  While there may be some room for subtle messaging in some cases (e.g. snippets), it is the user’s goals which will define content, not necessarily Mozilla corporation’s goals.  The goal to keep in mind is that *Firefox answers to no one but you.*
** Ability for user to undo removal of a site from new tab page
* Ability to disable new tab page and restore blank page
 
Performance:
 
* No performance impact in browsing session
* Loads instantly
 
==Phase 2: Main Functionality in Place==
 
Customization:
 
* Ability to reorder displayed top sites
* Ability to modify the titles of top sites
* Ability to to “lock” a site into place
* Ability to add a new site to new tab page
* Ability to replace displayed items with recent bookmarks, recently closed tabs, history, etc
 
==Phase 3: Future==
 
Features:
 
* Possibly Partial thumbnails of top sites (pending testing)
* Ability to bookmark an item from the new tab page itself
* Sites synced across devices and profiles
* Ability replace sites with tabs from other computers
* Possible ability to add a persona or background image to new tabs
* Ability to navigate sites wholly via keyboard
* Possible display of large icons rather than thumbnails, dependent on wide availability of high-resolution artwork, either provided by sites or generated by us
 
Spinoffs:
 
* Similar-but-mobile new tab page on mobile Firefox
 
==== Next Steps ====
* Iterate on prototype in UX branch
* Use feedback from prototype and user research to generate final design
|Feature ux design=[https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:New_tab_page_first_iteration_design_spec1.png First iteration spec]
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{{FeatureTeamStatus
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|Feature security status=sec-review-unnecessary
|Feature security health=OK
|Feature security health=OK
|Feature qa status=Signed-off
|Feature qa notes=[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Features/New_Tab_Page/Test_Plan Test Plan]
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== Resources ==
== Resources ==
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