Closed Bug 1541034 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

New Tab/Home settings are confusing

Categories

(Firefox for iOS :: Home screen, defect)

Product:
Firefox for iOS
Component:
Home screen
Platform:
Other
iOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INACTIVE
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
fxios ? ---

People

(Reporter: justindarc, Unassigned, NeedInfo)

Details

There are several issues with the New Tab and Home settings in our app settings menu:

  • It is unclear to the user that there is a difference between New Tab and Home (they may change the "Home" setting and expect to see their change reflected when they open a new tab; anecdotally, this misunderstanding has been reported to me by at least 3 of our users)
  • Even though "Firefox Home" can be set for the "New Tab" setting, you must go into the "Home" setting to make "Customize Firefox Home" changes (i.e., number of rows)
  • If we consolidated "Home" and "New Tab" to be the same thing, we could hide the "Customize Firefox Home" settings unless "Firefox Home" was selected
  • The "Firefox Home" setting in either context should have some sort of iconography or visual to help explain to the user what "Firefox Home" even is (i.e., a grayscale graphic showing the top sites icon layout or something)
  • There is further confusion when considering the "China Edition", such as Bug 1528153
Flags: needinfo?(bbell)

This is really for consideration for v17, but we do not have that set up in Bugzilla yet.

tracking-fxios: ? → 16.0
Priority: -- → P3
tracking-fxios: 16.0 → ?
Priority: P3 → --

Bug has been migrated to Github. Closing.
To add additional comments please find the bug in Github.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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