1847981 - Enable firefox-view next as default for 119 Nightly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Firefox View, task, P1)

Description

[Sarah Clements [:sclements]]

In a recent talk with Joy and James, it was decided we'll do a holdback of x percentage of users to the old firefox view.

I talked to :jlockhart about this and we'll want to enable firefox-view-next as the default (change this to 'true') starting in 119 Nightly. Before it hits release the holdback will be launched so that people enroll in that before the release goes out, then as they update the held back population never sees it and the rest do.

Comment 1

[Sarah Clements [:sclements]]

Release notes for Nightly, Beta and Release will be (per this doc): "Starting with 119, Firefox View includes more content for Nightly users. You can now see all open tabs, from all windows. If you sync open tabs, you’ll see all tabs from other devices. Browsing history, which you can sort by date and site, is another addition. As before, recently closed tabs are also listed on Firefox View."

Comment 2

[Sarah Clements [:sclements]]

Attachment: Bug 1847981 - Flip pref to make firefoxview-next the default r=#fxview-reviewers

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/b6e6bf87c115
Flip pref to make firefoxview-next the default r=fxview-reviewers,sfoster

Comment 4

[Cristian Tuns]

Backed out for causing bc failures in /browser_sma_click_element.js

• Backout link
• Push with failures
• Failure Log
• Failure line: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | toolkit/components/messaging-system/schemas/SpecialMessageActionSchemas/test/browser/browser_sma_click_element.js | Uncaught exception in test bound test_CLICK_ELEMENT - undefined - timed out after 50 tries.

and https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer?job_id=427291862&repo=autoland

Comment 5

[Natalia Csoregi [:nataliaCs]]

Backout merged to mozilla-central: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/689cae6423b9c37b2f071ef22940fff8fb59f1f7

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/9ed4b4c06c0d
Flip pref to make firefoxview-next the default r=fxview-reviewers,sfoster

Comment 7

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/9ed4b4c06c0d

Comment 8

[Sarah Clements [:sclements]]

Release Note Request
[Why is this notable]: Redesign of Firefox View - we'd like this added to the release notes for Nightly, Beta and Release
[Affects Firefox for Android]: No
[Suggested wording]: Starting with 119, Firefox View includes more content for users. You can now see all open tabs, from all windows. If you sync open tabs, you’ll see all tabs from other devices. Browsing history, which you can sort by date and site, is another addition. As before, recently closed tabs are also listed on Firefox View.

To access Firefox View, select the file folder icon at the top left of your tab strip.

Note: Please include the screenshot (attached in the next comment) below the text.

Comment 9

[Sarah Clements [:sclements]]

Attachment: firefox view next screenshot.png

Please add to release notes.

Comment 10

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

Added a slightly reworded note to the Fx119 Nightly release notes. Keeping the relnote? flag open to keep it on the radar for inclusion in our final release notes along with an image.