Fx20: Private and Personal

• Firefox for Mobile Roadmap 2012-2013
• Firefox 20 Feature Tracking

Key Selling Points

1. Private browsing
2. Personalization (about:home)

Value Proposition

Listening to direct feedback from our users, since both main stories (private browsing and customizing the about:home page) have been listed as one of the top 3 user requests on a consistently regular basis for months and months. We have listed, and now we have implemented!

Product & Feature Requirements

Private browsing mode (per tab)

• This has been a 'Top 3 requested feature' almost every week since Fennec was (re)launched
• Aligns with Firefox's own values and mission around user-controlled privacy

Specifications

• Per-tab private browsing mode

UX Design

• UX designs (Ian Barlow)

User Stories

• As a user I want to invoke a private browsing mode session so my friend can use my browser without messing up my history/awesomebar/homescreen.
• As a user I want to invoke a private browsing mode session so I can research Christmas gifts for my spouse without that ending up in my history/awesomebar/homescreen.
• As a user I want to be able to open a link from a page in a normal browsing session in a private browsing session, so I can look at it without it ending up in my history/awesomebar/homescreen.
• As a user I want it to be very clear when I am in a private browsing session, so I don't accidentally search for or look at things I think are private but are actually in a non-private browsing session.
• As a user I want to be able to close all of my private browsing tabs completely and at once, so I can get rid of them all very quickly without it being obvious what I'm doing. Note: current menu design closes all tabs, both private and normal at once

Quality Criteria

1. All specifications are met
2. All user stories are satisfied

ARMv6 expanded support: 600MHz, 384MB, QVGA

• Bringing the open web to even more phones
• Ability to reach NEW users

Specifications

• Pass all standard Firefox for Android smoke tests that are also run on ARMv7 phones
• Comparable or better performance than stock browser shipped on ARMv6 phones when running above tests

User Stories

• As a user, I can browse with Firefox for Android on even more phones than before (min spec = 600MHz, 384MB, QVGA) so I can use my favourite browser AND have a better experience than the default stock browser on these phones.

Device List

• Samsung Galaxy Next (GT-S5570, GT-S5578)
• HTC Aria (S31HT)
• HTC Legend (A6363)
• Samsung Dart (SGH-T499)
• Samsung Galaxy Pop (SCH-i559)
• Samsung Galaxy Q (SGH-T589)

Quality Criteria Passes 90% of the following MozTrap testcases:

• MUST PASS: Firefox installs and starts up
• MUST PASS: Double Tap Function (Double-tap to zoom)
• MUST PASS: Panning/Zooming
• MUST PASS: Bookmark a site from the context menu
• Firefox uninstalls properly
• Google search
• Search suggest opt-in (yes)
• Search suggest opt-in (no)
• Search or Go icon in URL bar
• Find In Page
• Refresh button
• Back and forward buttons
• Share a Link
• Open/Close Tab menu
• New tab button
• The items in the Awesomescreen tabs are displayed shortly after accessing the tab
• Close Tab
• Ensure context menu is not cut off in any way
• Ensure custom menu is not cut off in any way
• Settings menu items
• Access the product's about page from Settings
• Verify not saving passwords
• Verify "Never" saving passwords
• Forget password by clearing the private data
• Verify saving of a password
• Forget Password
• Clear private data dialog
• Reader Mode toolbar (add/remove items from reading list)
• Opening a reading list item opens the item in Reader Mode UI
• Invoke about:feedback
• Firefox Feedback: I have an idea
• Firefox Feedback: I ran into some problems
• Firefox Feedback: I love it

About:home customization

• This is one of our top three 'asks' from Input / SUMO recurring over the past several months

Specifications

• Default set of thumbnails are available (6 positions)
• Users can edit any thumbnail position with their own link
• Top frequented sites should NOT overwrite any thumbnail pins that a user has customised
• Any thumbnail position that hasn't been customised can be replaced with a top-frequented site
• Clearing customised thumbnail data infers that that thumbnail position can be replaced with a top-frequented site

UX Design

• Related: jboriss's work on New Tab designs for desktop

User Stories

• As a user, I want to be able to pin existing sites on about:home, so they're always there when I need them.
• As a user, I want to be able to add new sites on about:home, so they're always there when I need them.
• As a user, if I "edit" an existing dynamic topsite, it should become a pinned site when I finish editing.
• As a user, I want it to be visually obvious which site thumbnails are pinned and which are dynamic topsites.
• As a user, I want to be able to unpin sites from about:home, so they will make room for new pinned sites or top sites.
• As a user, I want to be able to clear/delete all of my pinned sites at once. I also want a way to undo this action in case I make a mistake.

Quality Criteria

1. User stories are satisfied
2. Specifications are met

Media decoding (H.264) GB & HC

• Due to Flash no longer supported by Adobe, we are filling a hole wherever we can to try and provide as much media support as possible. This also brings into parity with H.264 support we already introduced on JB and ICS.

Specifications

• Support H.264 on Ginberbread
• Support H.264 on Honeycomb

User Stories

• As a user, I can go to a site that supports H.264 content and play that back on my device that runs Gingerbread, so that I have a seamless media viewing experience.
• As a user, I can go to a site that supports H.264 content and play that back on my device that runs Honeycomb, so that I have a seamless media viewing experience.

Quality Criteria

1. User stories are satisfied
2. Specifications are met

Supported Locales

Number of supported locales: 18 List of supported locales (4 letter code): [en-US, cs, da, de, es-ES, fi, fr, ja, ko, it, nb-NO, nl, pl, pt-BR, pt-PT, ru, zh-CN, zh-TW]

GTM Plan

System Requirements

Phones & Tablets

• OS: Android 2.2+
• Chipset/MHz: ARMv6 and ARMv7 / 600 MHz
• RAM: 384 MB
• Display: QVGA
• Other: OpenGL

Change History