Add-ons/Projects/DiscoveryImprovements

Discovery improvements

The improvement of add-on discovery in Firefox.

UX

See:

Who

maritz, pwalm

Timeline

Aiming for Firefox 48 for the new pages and replacement of about:addons.

Metrics

How do we measure how well this is working?

Implementation

The pages will be generated by AMO and loaded in an iframe into Firefox. This is how the current addons discovery page works (the disco pane). So this will implementation will cover (at a high level):

• creating a new addons page
• figuring out how to put add-ons in that page (and the matrix of products, locales, regions)
• creating new APIs in Firefox for installing and finding out if an add-on installed
• changing Firefox to use the new pages (or maybe just change them in place)

For example of what you currently see in about:addons here's some example urls:

https://services.addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/discovery/pane/pane/promos/strict https://services.addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/discovery/pane/account https://services.addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/discovery/addon/floral-abstract-by-madonna/?src=discovery-featured

etc.