In-content preferences: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 21:34, 26 May 2011

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
In-content preferences	Currently inactive	none	Jennifer Boriss

Summary

As part of UX's goal to eliminate Firefox's separate management windows in favor of in-content designs, the Preferences window should be moved into the content area.

Such a move provides several benefits for users. First, it removes yet another easy-to-lose window. It means that changing preferences in Firefox can be an identical and easy experience across all devices, including tablet computers. It also means that more interactive portions of Preferences, such as about:permissions, can be integrated with the rest of preferences.

This project has two major components:

Move Preferences into in-content pages
Redesign Preferences such that their current usability problems are fixed and they integrate well within the content area

Team

Who's working on this?

Feature Manager: Jennifer Boriss
Lead Developer:
Product Manager:
QA:
UX: Jennifer Boriss
Security:

Release Requirements

A fully-integrated, usable, redesigned Firefox Preferences which displays in the content area of the browser.

Next Steps

Figure out what the priority level of this project is, and what the scope will entail.

Open Issues

Security and usability concerns associated with letting content area widgets modify the surrounding browser

Related Bugs & Dependencies

Designs

none yet

Use Cases

Modifying Firefox, using add-ons

Test Plans

None so far

Goals

Improve the design of Preferences
Integrate the parts of Firefox that should be in Preferences (such as the Add-ons Manager)
Move Preferences into the content area

Non-Goals

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 Who's working on this?
-* '''Feature Manager''': Alex Limi
+* '''Feature Manager''': Jennifer Boriss
-* '''Lead Developer''': Michael Ventnor (volunteer) has the current patch, sdwilsh and Blair McBride have helped review so far
+* '''Lead Developer''':
 * '''Product Manager''':
-* '''QA''': Vlad Ghetiu (irc: vladg)
+* '''QA''':
-* '''UX''': Alex Limi
+* '''UX''': Jennifer Boriss
-* '''Security''': (not sure if this is needed, we already ship a variation of this feature turned off)
+* '''Security''':
 == Release Requirements ==
-A working, tested implementation that satisfies the design specification in {{bug|566489}}.
+A fully-integrated, usable, redesigned Firefox Preferences which displays in the content area of the browser.
 == Next Steps ==
-Figure out whether we want to put one of the Firefox team developers on this to get it completed
+Figure out what the priority level of this project is, and what the scope will entail.
 == Open Issues ==
-Performance with a large history DB should be tested.
+Security and usability concerns associated with letting content area widgets modify the surrounding browser
 == Related Bugs & Dependencies ==
-{{Bug|566489}}
 == Designs ==
-Interaction is described in {{bug|566489}}.
+none yet
 == Use Cases ==
-See Summary. :)
+Modifying Firefox, using add-ons
 == Test Plans ==
-None so far.
+None so far
 == Goals ==
-Make navigation to typed URLs faster!
+# Improve the design of Preferences
+# Integrate the parts of Firefox that should be in Preferences (such as the Add-ons Manager)
+# Move Preferences into the content area
 == Non-Goals ==