make showing notifications at the same time as about:welcome harder to do inadvertently
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(Firefox :: Messaging System, enhancement, P3)
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(Reporter: dmosedale, Unassigned)
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If we don't end up migrating about:welcome to a window-modal spotlight (see the currently running experiment), it will continue to be easy for a notification to be (inadvertently) displayed on top of the about:welcome tab.
In the case of modal spotlights, this can be a painful user experience (and presumably adds friction to people completing the about:welcome funnel). We ran into this for a small percentage of users in bug 1821157.
I suspect it's pretty rare that we'd actually want to do this intentionally (maybe for a survey at the end of about:welcome?). It seems worth considering making this non-default behavior (i.e. one would have to opt-in -- maybe by adding a JSON setting in the message?).
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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The specific thing that happens to be causing this to happen for a small percentage of people in about:welcome experiments should be fixed in 1821157, and we're not aware of having seen this in real life other times, though if it affected a lot of people in an experiment, it could potentially require an experiment restart and possibly waiting for cooling off periods to study some set of users again. P3 for now.
Given how rarely we are likely to want this behavior (showing about:welcome with another notification), having it be the default seems like a footgun.
Scope of this bug is to consider options, potentially discuss, and propose a way forward with reasonable ROI. Shane has already dug into some of the details in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1821157#c15.
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