1223874 - [breakdown] Update /windows-10/welcome/ if the user is eligible for 1-click default

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, defect)

Description

[Cory Price [:ckprice] (bugmail disabled, NI me!)]

In bug 1190586, updates were made to the UITour which will allow the page to detect if the visitor is eligible for 1-click default install.

This opens the possibility to present such users with a more relevant message on the Windows 10 welcome page[0]. For instance, instead of a mildly daunting 3 step process, the content would be updated to: "Switch to Firefox in just 1 click!". It would also mitigate some confusion when users are presented with a 3-step process, but are switched in just one click.

Before we spin up a workstream on this, I think we have to answer a couple of questions

1. How much longer do we plan to have this page up for? (NI frios)
2. Do we have an idea on the % of our Windows 10 users that are eligible for this? (NI jaws)

If (2) is unavailable through the product, we could fire an event on the page to get a rough idea.


[0]https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/windows-10/welcome/

Comment 1

[Fabio Rios [:frios]]

Yes! Great news, thanks Cory. 

There are no plans to take this down so let's incorporate it.

Comment 2

[Cory Price [:ckprice] (bugmail disabled, NI me!)]

Thanks Fabio. I think the last bit is to understand the value of this change. Also going to NI :dolske to see if there's anyway for us to understand the percent of our Windows 10 users eligible for this.

Comment 3

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

(In reply to Cory Price [:ckprice] from comment #0)
> 2. Do we have an idea on the % of our Windows 10 users that are eligible for
> this? (NI jaws)

Recalling only from memory, but last time I heard this discussed it was around 1-2% of Windows 10 users.

Comment 4

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

I don't know of any data to guide this, but I'd expect it to be small (which is why it wasn't considered to be a big deal for the first version of the win10 page).

Since the API is already present in UITour, you could gather that data on the existing win10 page.

Comment 5

[Cory Price [:ckprice] (bugmail disabled, NI me!)]

Resolving invalid based on this update from dolske:

"Microsoft has informed us that they're going to be shipping a change (in the next few weeks) to how Windows 10 handles default applications. As a result, the solution we implemented in bug 1184508 to help users set their default browser without going through the awful Windows UI will no longer work. Further, Bryan met with them today and it sounds like they're doing this in a way that will silently fail, and may or may not break the ability to make Firefox the default browser from within the product (if our existing error-handling code can't fall back to the normal Windows UI). We can't test their change until it's released, so we don't know exactly what will happen."