Silent Update

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Status

Silent Update
Stage	Planning
Status	In progress
Release target	`
Health	OK
Status note	Master feature page for all components that are required to deliver a "silent update" experience to users.

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Team

Product manager	Chris Lee
Directly Responsible Individual	Chris Lee
Lead engineer	`
Security lead	`
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	`
UX lead	`
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

This feature falls under the Experience theme.

Silent Update is comprised of the following 6 components:

1) Move bulk of update to background before shut down and remove update UI from browser start-up. (feature page):

• Updater will need to change for Windows, Mac and Linux

2) Add-on compatibility check will default to compatible (feature page):

• Modifying how Firefox determines which Add-ons are compatible
• This will exclude:
  • All non-binary component add-ons
  • All strict incompatible add-ons
  • All blacklisted add-ons

3) What's new page content will transition to other tools and what's new tab will be removed (feature page):

• Dedicated placement in Firefox about:home page (being explored)
• Hover panel from from somewhere on the page (being explored)
• Brainstorm with UX/Marketing

4) Firefox updates need to bypass OS permissions dialog (feature page):

• Win7 UAC (user account control) dialogue
• Mac OS: determine if there are issues for non-admins

5) Update the add-on compatibility check prompt (feature page):

• In conjunction with component (2), when the update process encounters an incompatible add-on we should prompt with a dialog providing users the options of "not now" or "remind me later".

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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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

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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

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Silent Update is comprised of the following 6 components:

1) Move bulk of update to background before shut down and remove update UI from browser start-up. (feature page):

• Updater will need to change for Windows, Mac and Linux

2) Add-on compatibility check will default to compatible (feature page):

• Modifying how Firefox determines which Add-ons are compatible
• This will exclude:
  • All non-binary component add-ons
  • All strict incompatible add-ons
  • All blacklisted add-ons

3) What's new page content will transition to other tools and what's new tab will be removed (feature page):

• Dedicated placement in Firefox about:home page (being explored)
• Hover panel from from somewhere on the page (being explored)
• Brainstorm with UX/Marketing

4) Firefox updates need to bypass OS permissions dialog (feature page):

• Win7 UAC (user account control) dialogue
• Mac OS: determine if there are issues for non-admins

5) Update the add-on compatibility check prompt (feature page):

• In conjunction with component (2), when the update process encounters an incompatible add-on we should prompt with a dialog providing users the options of "not now" or "remind me later".

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Feature details

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

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Team status notes

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Products	`	`
Engineering	`	`
Security	`	`
Privacy	`	`
Localization	`	`
Accessibility	`	`
Quality assurance	`	`
User experience	`	`
Product marketing	`	`
Operations	`	`

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