Privacy/Features/Virtualized permissions manager

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Status

enable memory-only permissions manager and site-specific prefs
Stage	Draft
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Health	OK
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Team

Product manager	Sid Stamm
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Lead engineer	`
Security lead	`
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	`
UX lead	`
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

The permission manager should have the same functionality that the Strict Transport Security service has: when private browsing mode is enabled, changes to permissions should be kept only in memory. This way, when private mode is exited, any changes in site permissions can be rolled back.

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

This should be disabled by default to keep the existing Firefox behavior, but there should be a pref to turn it on for add-ons that want it. Eventually, we may toggle the pref on by default, but we need some significant testing first.

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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Feature details

Priority	P3
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	Advancing Anonymity
Roadmap	Privacy
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Feature list	Platform
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Team status notes

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Privacy	`	`
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Accessibility	`	`
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