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If you are reviewing the feature set and requirements, please refer to the Requirements section of the Bon Echo Planning Center.

Feature Set

Bon Echo will retain all of the existing Firefox features, with improvements that:

• update the look and feel of the browser,
• improve and augment the capabilities for Bookmarks and History,
• improve the user experience of web browsing and tabbed browsing,
• improve and augment the capabilities for handling web feeds,
• improve the user experience of adding, removing and managing extensions,
• add new capabilities to protect users from dangerous extensions,
• improve and augment the capabilities for web search,
• make it easier to install and distribute the browser,
• include the latest security and stability updates,
• include new security features to protect users from phishing,
• update our end user documentation so it's more useful to users looking for help.

These feature requirements are described in more detail below.

Release Roadmap

Bon Echo will meet the requirements of the Firefox Release Roadmap as a front-end feature release based upon the 1.8 branch of Gecko, that will preserve API capability with Firefox 1.5.

Milestones

Priorities

Product Requirements

Ownership & Change Management

Discussion about product management for Bon Echo will take place in the Bon Echo steering committee (which is an open subscription mailing list).

The Bon Echo PRD is maintained by the Product Management Team, including Ben Goodger, Christopher Beard, Mike Beltzner, and Mike Connor who work together with the Bon Echo steering committee and product team to deliver the overall product, defining content, prioritizing features and co-ordinating product delivery within the context of the Mozilla project.

Any proposed changes to these feature level requirements should be written up and submitted to the Bon Echo steering committee for discussion, and the Product Management team will make the appropriate changes to this document.

To nominate a bug that is not directly related to any of the requirements listed below as one that should be fixed as part of the Bon Echo project, mark it as blocking-firefox2? or blocking1.8.1? depending on the module.

Release Criteria

Requirements for release of Bon Echo are:

• all P1 product requirements are complete
• no functional regressions from Firefox 1.5
• no performance regressions from Firefox 1.5
• full QA testing has been completed on the release candidate code
• all bugs marked blocking-firefox2+/? or blocking1.8.1+/? have been resolved
• size of Windows compressed binary is less than or equal to 4.9MB
• l10n builds are available for Tier 1 languages
• Sec 508 Compliance form has been completed

Cross-Feature Requirements

• all new code must be documented on Mozilla Developer Central
• all user interface code must meet the Mozilla Accessibility Guidelines
• new or modified strings must be brought to the attention of localization team
• new or modified user interface behaviour must be brought to the attention of the documentation team
• all bugs must be marked with their target milestone and assigned prioritization
• any bug that blocks completion of a P1 product requirement should be marked either blocking-firefox2+ or blocking1.8.1+
• any bug that significantly affects quality, stability or performance should be marked either blocking-firefox2? or blocking1.8.1?

Visual Refresh

Feature Manager: beltzner

Bon Echo will update its appearance to look and feel like a modern native application on all platforms. Incremental polish and refinement to the user interface will focus on improving the usability and accessibility of primary product features.

Bookmarks and History

Bon Echo will modernize its data model to extend capabilities around synchronizing, storing and retrieving bookmark and history data and meta data. The existing bookmarks UI will be preserved, but augmented to facilitate ease of management, searching, and indexing of web browsing history and sites of interest.

User Experience

Bon Echo will improve on the web browsing experience with enhancements to tabs, and the ability to restart the browser without losing state. It will also address many frequently raised usability issues to streamline the overall user experience.

Feeds

Bon Echo will make it easier for users to discover, preview and interact with web feeds. It will allow users to selectively view feeds with either Live Bookmarks, web applications, Extensions or standalone applications.

Extensions

Bon Echo will make it easier for users to add, remove, and configure Extensions. It will also provide a mechanism to protect users from potentially malicious or dangerous third-party Extensions.

Search

Bon Echo will modernize the search plugin specification to provide enhanced compatibility and extensibility. It will also make it easier for users to manage their search plugins.

Distribution Support

Bon Echo will include new and enhanced capabilities that will facilitate customization, installation and life cycle support for multiple distribution channels.

Infrastructure & Performance

Bon Echo will be optimized and tuned for general web browsing use cases.

Security

Bon Echo will act as a trusted friend, facilitating as safe and secure browsing experience as possible.

Documentation