Firefox/Features/Chrome migration

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Status

Migrate Chrome settings and data
Stage	Design
Status	In progress
Release target	`
Health	OK
Status note	`

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Team

Product manager	Asa Dotzler
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Lead engineer	`
Security lead	`
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	AndreiD
UX lead	Alex Limi
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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Open issues/risks

Other browsers all migrate Firefox settings and data. We are surely losing lots of potential users here.

Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Firefox offers new users migration of settings and data from Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera. It does not offer users migration from Chrome. It should.

The goal is to make Firefox a seamless conversion from Chrome.

This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)

2. Users & use cases

All users new to Firefox who have a Google Chrome profile on their system.

A Chrome user wants to try out Firefox so he downloads it and installs it. Unfortunately, for him and the 150 million other Chrome users who might want to try out Firefox, his Chrome settings and data are not migrated so when he goes to log into Facebook and his username and password are not pre-filled, he says "screw it" and returns to Chrome.

3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

Users, on first launch of Firefox, must be able to migrate their Chrome passwords, bookmarks, history, form data, cookies, and applicable preferences/settings.

Non-goals

The goal is not to keep Firefox in sync with Chrome, just to migrate it one time.

The goal is not to provide post-firstrun importing of all of these settings. If that is easy to do or otherwise comes along "for free" that's great. This feature does not require that.

Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

When a user installs Firefox and launches it for the first time, the Import Wizard is launched.

The Import Wizard should include an option to import Google Chrome settings and data (along with any other installed browsers).

Selecting Google Chrome from the list of browsers in the Import Wizard and clicking "Next" should result in the wizard importing the user's Chrome passwords, bookmarks, history, form data, cookies, and settings.

6. User experience design

No change from the current Import Wizard that users already get for importing from the various other browsers.

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

Bugzilla Bug Report: 505192 - Chrome profile migration for Import Wizard and Migration Assistant - cookies, history, and bookmarks

Bugzilla Bug Report: 589589 - Chrome profile migration for Import Wizard and Migration Assistant - passwords, form data, and settings

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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The goal is to make Firefox a seamless conversion from Chrome.

This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.) |Feature users and use cases=All users new to Firefox who have a Google Chrome profile on their system.

A Chrome user wants to try out Firefox so he downloads it and installs it. Unfortunately, for him and the 150 million other Chrome users who might want to try out Firefox, his Chrome settings and data are not migrated so when he goes to log into Facebook and his username and password are not pre-filled, he says "screw it" and returns to Chrome. |Feature dependencies=` |Feature requirements=Users, on first launch of Firefox, must be able to migrate their Chrome passwords, bookmarks, history, form data, cookies, and applicable preferences/settings. |Feature non-goals=The goal is not to keep Firefox in sync with Chrome, just to migrate it one time.

The goal is not to provide post-firstrun importing of all of these settings. If that is easy to do or otherwise comes along "for free" that's great. This feature does not require that. |Feature functional spec=When a user installs Firefox and launches it for the first time, the Import Wizard is launched.

The Import Wizard should include an option to import Google Chrome settings and data (along with any other installed browsers).

Selecting Google Chrome from the list of browsers in the Import Wizard and clicking "Next" should result in the wizard importing the user's Chrome passwords, bookmarks, history, form data, cookies, and settings. |Feature ux design=No change from the current Import Wizard that users already get for importing from the various other browsers. |Feature implementation plan=` |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=` |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=Bugzilla Bug Report: 505192 - Chrome profile migration for Import Wizard and Migration Assistant - cookies, history, and bookmarks

Bugzilla Bug Report: 589589 - Chrome profile migration for Import Wizard and Migration Assistant - passwords, form data, and settings |Feature landing criteria=` }}

Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	2
Theme / Goal	Discover
Roadmap	Firefox Desktop
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Desktop
Project	`
Engineering team	Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

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