Features/Desktop/Enhanced Customization APIs
Status
| Enhanced Customization APIs | |
| Stage | Draft |
| Status | ` |
| Release target | ` |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | ` |
Team
| Product manager | Asa Dotzler |
| Directly Responsible Individual | Jorge Villalobos |
| Lead engineer | Gavin Sharp |
| Security lead | ` |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | ` |
| UX lead | ` |
| Product marketing lead | ` |
| Operations lead | ` |
| Additional members | Matt Grimes, Tyler Downer, Michael Verdi |
Open issues/risks
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Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
We need to provide a way for add-on developers to change user settings that make it easier for users to make an informed decision, and also make it easier for the settings to be reverted when the add-on is removed.
The settings that need to be protected are: homepage, new tab page, default search engine and keyword URL. The User Agent string might need this too, but we need to consider some add-ons are designed to change the UA and we wouldn't want nagging dialogs every time it is changed.
- See bug 738818 - Consolidate Firefox search preferences.
2. Users & use cases
This is an add-on developer API, but it also affects users who install add-ons that change these settings.
3. Dependencies
Before release, we need to make sure that we communicate this feature to all developers, specially those who don't list their add-ons on AMO. We need to have a policy of not accepting any bypassing of these new APIs.
4. Requirements
External installers should also have the possibility of using these APIs. Some make these setting changes without installing add-ons.
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 | Unprioritized |
| Rank | 999 |
| Theme / Goal | ` |
| Roadmap | ` |
| Secondary roadmap | ` |
| Feature list | ` |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | ` |
Team status notes
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | ` | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
