Convert remaining window-modal dialogs to tab-modal

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Convert remaining window-modal dialogs to tab-modal
Stage Design
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Team

Product manager Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual Justin Dolske
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QA lead Vlad Ghetiu (irc: vladg)
UX lead Alex Limi
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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

With Firefox 4, we moved several of the window-modal dialogs to be be inline, tab-modal dialogs instead — the JavaScript OK/Cancel dialog being the most prominent. We want to eliminate the remaining window-modal dialogs using various

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

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

The various dialogs will require slightly different approaches since they have varying capabilities and roles, but overall they should never block the entire window, at most just the relevant tab, and at best not be shown at all (like when you have saved password and HTTP auth).

Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

Documented in the bugs mentioned below.

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

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Feature details

Priority P2
Rank 999
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Roadmap User Experience
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Feature list Desktop
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Engineering team Desktop front-end

Team status notes

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