1061346 - Rename from "Send to Firefox" to "Add to Firefox"?

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Overlays, defect)

Description

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Filing this speculatively.

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Attachment: Rename from "Send to Firefox" to "Add to Firefox". v1

Assuming we decide to do this, this is the patch.

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Attachment: Competitive screenshot

Here's how we place in English with "Add" when sending from Feedly.

Spanish has añedir/enviar, similarly.

Unless there's a really pressing reason to use "Send", I suggest we use "Add".

(I'd check German, our second most popular language, but the verb comes last, so it doesn't matter!)

Comment 3

[Chris Kitching [:ckitching]]

I approve. Did it as before because yuan drew it that way, but this seems a sensible.change. (which we discussed before, i think )

Comment 4

[Chris Kitching [:ckitching]]

I guess a reason for not doing this might be that "send" was the word we used before fore"send tab"

Comment 5

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

I'm going to land this today to make the merge; Yuan, if you disagree with the change, we might have time to flip-flop in the morning, or we can fix later.

Comment 6

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/903a6dd7c5d0

Comment 7

[Yuan Wang(:Yuan) – Mobile Firefox Design Lead]

To me, "Send" is a different action from "Share". "Share" is often a broadcast(Share via a service) whereas "Send" is an end-to-end action.

I think "Add to Firefox" is the best option. It makes sense under the term "Share". Also, second screen has been using "Send" for sending a tab/video to Roku.

Comment 8

[Yuan Wang(:Yuan) – Mobile Firefox Design Lead]

Another note on whether to use "Firefox" or "Add to Firefox".
I think many Android users don't expect to see a browser in a share panel. When they see a browser, they probably assume passing a link to the browser is what "share to a browser" can do.

"Add to Firefox" is a term that we have never used elsewhere. I secretly hope this specific term will encourage the users to think that "Add to Firefox" has more to offer, and get them interested in trying it out.

Comment 9

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Yuan Wang(:Yuan) – Mobile Firefox Design Lead from comment #8)
> Another note on whether to use "Firefox" or "Add to Firefox".
> I think many Android users don't expect to see a browser in a share panel.
> When they see a browser, they probably assume passing a link to the browser
> is what "share to a browser" can do.
> 
> "Add to Firefox" is a term that we have never used elsewhere. I secretly
> hope this specific term will encourage the users to think that "Add to
> Firefox" has more to offer, and get them interested in trying it out.

This rationale has merit. Let's see what happens. Do we have any telemetry (or bugs filed) for the new actions?

Comment 10

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

> This rationale has merit. Let's see what happens. Do we have any telemetry
> (or bugs filed) for the new actions?

Bug 1061409.

Comment 11

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/903a6dd7c5d0