1881588 - Add Wallpaper feature to home & new tab page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, enhancement)

Description

[Amy Churchwell [:amy]]

Add new wallpapers section to the new tab page personalization panel, along with cards to hold future background images. We should also pref this off.

Comment 1

[Amy Churchwell [:amy]]

Work in progress design explorations: https://www.figma.com/file/5hUBRTrDG3iWwi26KyLhtz/New-Tab?type=design&node-id=1848-59208&mode=design&t=cnAym3MmnA0AcEQn-0

Comment 2

[Nathan Barrett [:nbarrett]]

Attachment: Bug 1881588 - Add wallpaper section to newtab customize menu

Comment 3

[Nathan Barrett [:nbarrett]]

Testing note: set the pref in about:config "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabWallpapers.enabled" to false

Comment 4

[Nathan Barrett [:nbarrett]]

Attachment: Bug 1881588 - Add Wallpaper component r=#home-newtab-reviewers

Comment 5

[Nathan Barrett [:nbarrett]]

testing info:
set the pref browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabWallpapers.enabled to true

Download the Remote settings dev tools here: https://github.com/mozilla-extensions/remote-settings-devtools and make sure the environment is set to Prod

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/6a91dbb21815
Add Wallpaper component r=home-newtab-reviewers,fluent-reviewers,bolsson,thecount,maxxcrawford

Comment 7

[Sandor Molnar[:smolnar]]

Backed out for causing node newtab failures

Backout link: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/d716a1ee0fdad80a3f1cbaa89295e06b1584de7c

Push with failures

Failure log -> TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | bundles | about:asrouter bundle out of date

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/17135ba9a5bd
Add Wallpaper component r=home-newtab-reviewers,fluent-reviewers,bolsson,thecount,maxxcrawford

Comment 9

[Cristina Horotan [:chorotan]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/17135ba9a5bd

Comment 11

[Marius Coman [:mcoman], Ecosystem QA]

I have verified this enhancement and I can confirm the following:

• The "Wallpapers" section containing 6 default wallpapers (2 rows of 3 cards each) is displayed in the "Personalization" panel from the New Tab page.
• All 6 wallpapers are successfully applied to the New Tab page background when clicked.

Verified using the latest Firefox Beta 126.0b2 (Build ID: 20240417091940), and the latest Firefox Nightly 127.0a1 (Build ID: 20240418214121) installed on Windows 10 x64, macOS 14.1.1, and Ubuntu 22.04 x64.