This project covers the design and creation of a Firefox Home Tab, a small persistent tab placed at the far left of the tab strip that will serve as the user's home on the Web.

• Project lead: Unfocused
• Project members: limi, faaborg
• Potential reviewers:
• QA contacts: marcia

Status

• STALLED
• General tracking in bug 551849
• Still finishing up App Tabs project

Goals

• Replace home button with an App Tab that always loads on startup
• Continue to support user-customization of home page URL
• Continue to support multiple home pages
• Continue to allow customization of tools by allowing removal of the Home Tab

Non-Goals

• Synchronize state of home tabs across windows

Timeline/Milestones

Delivery Requirements

• Must be complete before the feature freeze beta of the target delivery vehicle

Dependencies

• App Tabs

Testing

• Most of the home/app tab features should be able to be automatically tested by browser-chrome tests
• Migration path will likely need manual/mozmill testing unless we invent a new test suite.

Related Projects

• Locally Hosted Firefox Start is not required but related
• New Theme is not required but without switching tabs to be on top the chromeless app-tabs will look pretty strange.