1422079 - Add section context menu to help users who have difficulty hiding sections

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect, P1)

Description

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

> There's been feedback that users are having difficulty finding the New Tab Preferences panel to hide sections of New Tab.

> Proposing to add a "hide" button on each section to make it more visible. See spec for details.

> New Tab – Hide Section Spec https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/QFEPZRATX

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

uiwanted: From user studies, it looks like users don't even notice the top right on-hover controls for each section as well as not expecting the gear in the top right of the page. Does it make sense to add more controls in places that the user isn't even interacting with?

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

uiwanted: Potentially, instead of having the new modal, clicking "Hide" could open up the preference sidebar highlighting the section and auto-unchecking it? Maybe related, if we add this highlight related pref section, it could also be used for the usual (?) -> "New Tab Preferences >" link?

Comment 3

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

design says to show the Hide link, which on click opens up the pref pane immediately, and after some delay changes the pref, so that the checkbox unchecks and section disappears.

tspurway suggests we might want a pref to be able to experiment whether users interact and change their preferences this way.. or maybe not and ship it without experimenting as the feedback so far is that people do want to be able to hide stories but think it can't be hidden.

Comment 4

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

This is part of adding the context menu to each section from bug 1437129:

The mockups are here: https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/7JFPNDEMRYC#/screens/277739895_New_Tab_-_Base

Comment 6

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

uiwanted: With the (?) info doorhanger going away, where should the pocket Privacy Notice appear?

Comment 7

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/pull/3987

Comment 8

[Aaron Benson]

Move it to the context menu. InVision Spec: https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/7JFPNDEMRYC#/screens/279862272_Section_Menus_On_New_Tab_Explainer

Comment 9

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

uiwanted: Initial l10n feedback is that inserting the section title is tricky for localization, e.g., "Manage {section}" (I would guess gender matching, etc.) Is it possible to use some other string?

Comment 10

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

uifeedback: Switching to just "Manage Section" (like the other "Collapse Section"). Also the "About Pocket" should just be "Privacy Notice" pointing to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#suggest-relevant-content

Comment 11

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream

https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/commit/e9394510e9af0b650f2535a4c53a011e3d13ae99
Fix Bug 1422079 - sections context menu

Comment 12

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6b64cc96f1b8

Comment 13

[Marius Coman [:mcoman], Ecosystem QA]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Firefox: 60.0a1, Build ID 20180226100105

I have verified this issue on Windows 10 x64, Ubuntu 14.04 x64 and Mac 10.12 with the latest Nightly build (60.0a1) installed. Now the option "Manage section", that is displayed in all the sections menus, opens the "New Tab Preferences" panel until it will be removed.
Also the "Recommended by Pocket" "Privacy Notice" option is displayed in the section menu.

Comment 14

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Strings landed for localization in https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream-l10n/pull/11