QA/Desktop Firefox/in-content-preferences

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In-content Preferences

Feature Status Target Dev Lead QA Lead QA Status
In-content Preferences Firefox 38 Richard Marti, Jared Wein, Gijs Kruitbosch Camelia Badau Signed-off

Intro

  • The Preferences, which previously were displayed in a preferences window, are shown now into their own options tab in the browser when they are opened by a user.
  • The Preferences window is moved into the content area. This move provides several benefits for users. First, it removes yet another easy-to-lose window. It means that changing preferences in Firefox can be an identical and easy experience an consistency across operating systems.

References

Testing Approach

For Preferences we are testing, first, that Preferences is now opened in-content and not in a window. Then, we are testing each button, each tab, each category and subcategory from Preferences in order to see if these work properly and without any issues.

For now, Preferences appear in-content by default only for Firefox Nightly. If you like this and do not want to wait until Mozilla makes it the default option for all channels, then do the following to make it the default one when you open the options in the Firefox browser:

    • 1. Type about:config in the browser's address bar and hit enter.
    • 2. Confirm you will be careful.
    • 3. Search for browser.preferences.inContent and double-click it to set it to true.

The pref browser.preferences.inContent makes the new in-content options the default, which means that any click on Options in Firefox will spawn them in a tab in the browser and not in a window. When you now open the preferences, you will notice that they are opened in a tab in the browser instead of in their own window.

OLD "PREFERENCES" LOOK

Old-preferences.png


NEW "PREFERENCES" LOOK

New.gif


Related Prefs

  • browser.preferences.inContent will allow the user to enable/disable the in-content Preferences page
    • Note: this pref is set on true by default

Bug Work

  • Metabug: 718011 - [meta] Move preferences from a window/sheet to in-content
  • Tracking bug: 738796 - Visual polish for in-content preferences
  • Ship In-Content Prefs: 1014201 - Ship the in-content preferences
  • Fixed; may need verification:
  • New bugs:


Sign-offs

Aurora sign-off

  • Firefox 36 Aurora merge - 05/12/2014 - DONE
    • On the next OSs:
      • Windows 7 64bit
      • Ubuntu 13.10 32bit
      • Mac OSX 10.9.5


  • Firefox 36.0a2 Aurora (pre-beta sign-off) - 09/01/2015 - DONE
    • On the next OSs:
      • Windows 7 64bit
      • Ubuntu 13.10 32bit
      • Mac OSX 10.9.5

Beta sign-off

  • Firefox 38 (beta sign-off) - 30/04/2015 -
    • On the next OSs:
      • Windows 7 64bit
      • Ubuntu 13.10 32bit
      • Mac OSX 10.9.5
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