Improve find-in-page

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Status

Improve find-in-page
Stage	Development
Status	In progress
Release target	Firefox 25
Health	OK
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Team

Product manager	Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual	Jennifer Boriss
Lead engineer	Mike de Boer
Security lead	Dan Veditz
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	Mihaela Velimiroviciu
UX lead	Jennifer Boriss
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	Markus Stange, Adam [:hobophobe]

Open issues/risks

Q & A on shifting content (from firefox-dev)

Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Firefox's find-in-page bar has several usability problems that need to be addressed in a redesign:

Problem with Find-in-page	Solution
Located at the bottom of the Firefox window, away from all other main functionality. Yet, it's both main functionality and relates to the content on the page.	Should move to the top of the Firefox window, allowing users to easily scan down the page to see results (as they read) rather than having to scan backwards
Displays globally, on all new tabs, which means that unwanted past searches constantly stick around	Should become tab-specific
"/" shortcut is too easy to trigger in error in an app where slashes are important	"/" shortcut should be removed
Only shows one result at a time	Find-in-page should highlight all matching results
Currently difficult to see where find-in-page has located a result	A subtle animation/color change should indicate where results are found
Doesn't say how many results were found	Should say how many results were found
Not dismissable with Esc or clicking outside to close	Should be dismissable with Esc or clicking outside to close
Doesn't have match whole word option	Should have match whole word option

This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

A working, tested implementation that satisfies the design specification in bug 565552.

Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

Interaction is described in bug 566489.

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

bug 565552.

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Feature details

Priority	Unprioritized
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	`
Roadmap	User Experience
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Desktop
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Engineering team	Desktop front-end

Team status notes

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Security	`	`
Privacy	`	`
Localization	`	`
Accessibility	`	`
Quality assurance	`	`
User experience	`	`
Product marketing	`	`
Operations	`	`