Tab Strip Visual Redesign
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Status
| Tab Strip Visual Redesign | |
| Stage | Complete |
| Status | Complete |
| Release target | Firefox 29 |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | ` |
Team
| Product manager | Asa Dotzler |
| Directly Responsible Individual | Stephen Horlander |
| Lead engineer | Matthew Noorenberghe |
| Security lead | ` |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | Paul Silaghi |
| UX lead | Stephen Horlander |
| Product marketing lead | ` |
| Operations lead | ` |
| Additional members | Mike Conley |
Open issues/risks
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Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
Redesign and streamline the Tab Strip.
Goals:
- Emphasis the current active tab
- Create a soft, smooth and streamlined appearance
2. Users & use cases
All users that use tabs.
3. Dependencies
- Implement window frame in XUL – bug 590945
- Tabs in titlebar support for OSX – bug 625989
- Ability to manipulate window controls for OSX - bug 851652
4. Requirements
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Non-goals
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Stage 2: Design
5. Functional specification
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6. User experience design
Design Goals:
- Soft curves connecting the Active Tab to the Tab Strip
- No visual affordance to background tabs except on hover
- Subtle separators for background tabs
Design Specs:
- Windows 7
Stage 3: Planning
7. Implementation plan
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8. Reviews
Security review
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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
Development work can be tracked in bug 732583 and its dependencies:
- australis-tabs-win bug 738491
- australis-tabs-osx bug 823180
- australis-tabs-linux bug 823176
Planning etherpad Bug tracking dashboard
Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
Must land in the same Firefox release as the Panel Menu and new toolbar customization
Feature details
| Priority | P1 |
| Rank | 999 |
| Theme / Goal | Experience |
| Roadmap | User Experience |
| Secondary roadmap | Firefox Desktop |
| Feature list | Desktop |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | Desktop front-end |
Team status notes
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | sec-review-unnecessary | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
