Silent Update

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Status

Silent Update
Stage	Definition
Status	In progress
Release target	Firefox 10
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 5 components:

1) Firefox updater will go away and install updates in the background (feature page)

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

2) Add-ons compatibility check will include (Feature page):

     * Compatibility checker will default to compatible 

3) What's new page will transition to other tools to help inform/educate users, possible ideas include:

     * Dedicated placement in Firefox Home tab
     * Hover panel from top/bottom
     * Brainstorm with UX/Marketing

4) OS dialogues

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

5) About dialogue

     * Move away from version numbers
     * "You're running the latest version", "Firefox checked the latest version and it was updated X minutes ago."
     * bugzilla 678775

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 5 components:

1) Firefox updater will go away and install updates in the background (feature page)

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

2) Add-ons compatibility check will include (Feature page):

     * Compatibility checker will default to compatible 

3) What's new page will transition to other tools to help inform/educate users, possible ideas include:

     * Dedicated placement in Firefox Home tab
     * Hover panel from top/bottom
     * Brainstorm with UX/Marketing

4) OS dialogues

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

5) About dialogue

     * Move away from version numbers
     * "You're running the latest version", "Firefox checked the latest version and it was updated X minutes ago."
     * bugzilla 678775 

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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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Security	`	`
Privacy	`	`
Localization	`	`
Accessibility	`	`
Quality assurance	`	`
User experience	`	`
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Operations	`	`

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