1622474 - Implement about:welcome default UX in 76

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Messaging System, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya]]

Scope of this bug is to implement about:welcome UX with messaging for all users in 76

Comment 1

[Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya]]

NI Aaron to help attach the UX design. Thanks!

Comment 2

[Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya]]

Experience should be turned on by default by updating browser.aboutwelcome.enabled pref to true here https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/app/profile/firefox.js#1322

Comment 3

[Emily McMinn :emcminn]

Attachment: Bug 1622474 - Enabled new About:Welcome experience by default; turned on dynamic triplets

Comment 4

[Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya]]

Patch attached will turn on simplified about:welcome for all users. Ideally with simplified about:welcome, we should show dynamic triplets experience on about:home and about:newtab.
Our options are:
a) Turn on dynamic triplets on about:home and about:newtab. This has dependency on analysis from experiment
https://experimenter.services.mozilla.com/experiments/activity-stream-contextual-onboarding-experiment-for-dynamic-triplets-on-newtab-in-firefox-72-v2/

b) Change simplified about:welcome triplets card as 'supercharge' (sync, monitor and mobile)

c) Keep triplets card different on about:welcome and about:newtab ( Sync, Monitor and Browse Privately on about:welcome , and 'supercharge' triplet cards (sync, monitor and mobile) on about:newtab )

Comment 5

[Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya]]

NI Jim to help figure which option is best to move ahead with. Thanks!

Comment 6

[Jim T]

I'm in favor of A) with a milestone to review when analysis is finished.

Comment 7

[Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya]]

(In reply to Jim T from comment #6)

I'm in favor of A) with a milestone to review when analysis is finished.

Thanks for clarifying, will update patch to use 'dynamic' as default triplets on about:home and about:newtab

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/newtab/lib/ASRouterPreferences.jsm#17

Comment 8

[Emily McMinn :emcminn]

(In reply to Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya] from comment #7)

(In reply to Jim T from comment #6)

I'm in favor of A) with a milestone to review when analysis is finished.

Thanks for clarifying, will update patch to use 'dynamic' as default triplets on about:home and about:newtab

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/newtab/lib/ASRouterPreferences.jsm#17

I can do this today :)

Comment 9

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/ba7de7a93a71
Enabled new About:Welcome experience by default; turned on dynamic triplets r=k88hudson

Comment 10

[Razvan Maries]

Backed out for perma failures on browser_ext_themes_ntp_colors.js.

Push with failure: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=autoland&resultStatus=pending%2Crunning%2Csuccess%2Ctestfailed%2Cbusted%2Cexception&searchStr=windows%2C7%2Cdebug%2Cmochitests%2Ctest-windows7-32%2Fdebug-mochitest-browser-chrome-e10s-5%2Cm%28bc5%29&revision=ba7de7a93a714f71a8e2fb1f0ab1584d90ad2e57&selectedJob=294434235

Failure log: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer.html#/jobs?job_id=294434235&repo=autoland&lineNumber=59409

Backout: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/ee6627a3fb09a01730b6454242a965bfe1a52682

Comment 11

[Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya]]

Patch updated with the fix. Thanks

Comment 12

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/cd35b501fd33
Enabled new About:Welcome experience by default; turned on dynamic triplets r=k88hudson

Comment 13

[Daniel Varga [:dvarga]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cd35b501fd33

Comment 14

[Marius Coman [:mcoman], Ecosystem QA]

I have verified that the simplified UI version of the "about:welcome" page is displayed on the latest Firefox Nightly 76.
Verified using the latest Firefox Nightly (76.0a1 Build ID - 20200325213906)installed on Windows 10 x64, Mac 10.15.4, and Ubuntu 18.04 x64.