1888558 - Change the Recently saved homepage section into a Bookmarks section

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android :: Bookmarks, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Verdi [:verdi] Best to slack me]

Change the Recently saved homepage section into a Bookmarks section so that people have easy, predictable access to their bookmarks.

Things to change:

• Heading renamed to “Bookmarks”
• Show up to 8 bookmarks (instead of 4).
• There isn’t a time limit on the bookmarks or the section. As long as there is at least one bookmark the section is shown no matter how old the bookmark is.
• The name of the section in settings should be changed to “Bookmarks”

Things to keep the same:

• If there are no bookmarks the section should not be displayed on the homepage.
• If the user turns the section off in settings, the section should not be displayed on the homepage.
• The most recent bookmark is displayed on the left for LTR languages.
• The design of the bookmark card
• The “Show all” link opens the bookmarks panel.

Comment 1

[Matt Tighe [:matt-tighe]]

Will update if I hear back from :verdi in Slack, but I've asked:

Will there be any design updates to the Bookmarks section on Android, or do we want it to function as a scrolling carousel of 8 items instead of 4?

Comment 2

[Verdi [:verdi] Best to slack me]

No design updates to the bookmarks cards - just showing 8 instead of 4.

Comment 3

[Joe M [:jmahon]]

:boek can you please take a look at this bug, and determine when your squad can pick it up? If you put a fixVersion on the connected Jira ticket, that'll get it to show up on our FXDROID board. I'm needinfo'ing you about it because I'm not sure what your team is currently using for your workflow (e.g. if you have a prioritized backlog or sprint refinement process).

(The hope is that this is a small amount of work to help improve the usage of bookmarks before actually jumping into more significant redesign work)

Thanks!

Comment 4

[Jeff Boek [:boek]]

We're going to pull this in for fx127.

Comment 5

[Matt Tighe [:matt-tighe]]

Attachment: Bug 1888558 - Part 1: Rename Recently Saved and Recent Bookmarks code references Bookmarks

Comment 6

[Matt Tighe [:matt-tighe]]

Attachment: Bug 1888558 - Part 2: Rename Recently Saved metrics to be Bookmarks

Comment 7

[Matt Tighe [:matt-tighe]]

Attachment: Bug 1888558 - Part 3: Rename Recently Saved Nimbus feature to be Bookmarks

Comment 8

[Matt Tighe [:matt-tighe]]

Attachment: Bug 1888558 - Part 4: Rename user visible strings from Recently Saved to Bookmarks

Comment 9

[Matt Tighe [:matt-tighe]]

Attachment: Bug 1888558 - Part 5: Increase number and duration of cards in Bookmarks home screen section

Comment 10

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/cf1b034c9ee4
Part 1: Rename Recently Saved and Recent Bookmarks code references Bookmarks r=android-reviewers,avirvara,boek
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/834b1bbf5ca4
Part 2: Rename Recently Saved metrics to be Bookmarks r=android-reviewers,boek
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/b17b5ca67c3b
Part 3: Rename Recently Saved Nimbus feature to be Bookmarks r=android-reviewers,boek
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/cef20a9e66ae
Part 4: Rename user visible strings from Recently Saved to Bookmarks r=android-reviewers,boek
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/fa15badda305
Part 5: Increase number and duration of cards in Bookmarks home screen section r=android-reviewers,boek

Comment 11

[pstanciu]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cf1b034c9ee4
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/834b1bbf5ca4
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b17b5ca67c3b
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cef20a9e66ae
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/fa15badda305

Comment 12

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Matt, is that a feature worth mentioning in our release notes? Thanks

Comment 13

[Adina Petridean QA [:apetridean]]

Attachment: bookmarks.mp4

Comment 14

[Adina Petridean QA [:apetridean]]

Verified as fixed on the latest Nightly 127.0a1 from 10.05.2024 with Google Pixel 7 Pro ( Android 14) and Motorola G9 plus (Android 11).

The items listed under "Things to change" describe modifications, while those under "Things to keep the same" remain unchanged.

Comment 15

[Matt Tighe [:matt-tighe]]

I think this could be worth mentioning the release notes. Summarized as something along the lines of:

"The Recently Saved section home page has become the Bookmarks section. These items no longer expire."

Comment 16

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

(In reply to Matt Tighe [:matt-tighe] from comment #15)

I think this could be worth mentioning the release notes. Summarized as something along the lines of:

"The Recently Saved section home page has become the Bookmarks section. These items no longer expire."

Could you follow our nomination process described in this video please:
https://video.chevrel.org/demos/relnoteRequestBugzilla.mp4

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Release_Notes#Nomination_in_Bugzilla

Thanks!

Comment 17

[Matt Tighe [:matt-tighe]]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: Changes the UX on the home screen
[Affects Firefox for Android]: only
[Suggested wording]: The Recently Saved section home page has become the Bookmarks section. These items no longer expire.
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]: