In-content preferences
| 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: Alex Limi
- Lead Developer: Michael Ventnor (volunteer) has the current patch, sdwilsh and Blair McBride have helped review so far
- Product Manager:
- QA: Vlad Ghetiu (irc: vladg)
- UX: Alex Limi
- Security: (not sure if this is needed, we already ship a variation of this feature turned off)
Release Requirements
A working, tested implementation that satisfies the design specification in bug 566489.
Next Steps
Figure out whether we want to put one of the Firefox team developers on this to get it completed
Open Issues
Performance with a large history DB should be tested.
Related Bugs & Dependencies
Designs
Interaction is described in bug 566489.
Use Cases
See Summary. :)
Test Plans
None so far.
Goals
Make navigation to typed URLs faster!