1890066 - Provide visual guidance when setting default requires interaction with Windows Settings on Windows 11

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

Users forced to interact with Windows Settings are less likely to successfully set Firefox as default. We should provide visual guidance to inform the user that there is a necessary follow up step when a user indicates they would like Firefox to be set as default.

Comment 1

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

Attachment: Bug 1890066 - Pre: Allow disabling the notification server routing per-notification. r=nalexander

Comment 2

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

Attachment: Bug 1890066 - Show notification when users need to finish setting Firefox as the default in Windows Settings. r=nalexander

Comment 3

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

Attachment: Bug 1890066 - Pre: Allow Messaging System system notifications processing when Firefox is invoked by the Notification Server via Remote Settings. r=nalexander

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/919615553ab2
Pre: Allow Messaging System system notifications processing when Firefox is invoked by the Notification Server via Remote Settings. r=nalexander,mconley
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/731e5421d3f0
Show notification when users need to finish setting Firefox as the default in Windows Settings. r=nalexander,omc-reviewers,fluent-reviewers,flod,pdahiya

Comment 5

[Cristina Horotan [:chorotan]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/919615553ab2
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/731e5421d3f0

Comment 6

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Just to double-check: are we tracking adding content at the SuMo pages that we're pointing users to? (the https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/%VERSION%/%OS%/%LOCALE%/win-set-firefox-default-browser URLs referenced in the commit here)

Right now at least: when I see this dialog in Nightly 127 or Beta 126 and click "Show me" on the dialog, it opens a tab with this URL:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/win-set-firefox-default-browser?as=u&utm_source=inproduct
...which just says "Placeholder 1890434"

It looks like the number on that placeholder is referring to bug 1890434 which was filed to generate that placeholder page, I guess. Just want to double-check that the SuMo page-population is tracked somewhere, since it looks like this will be hitting release as part of v126 in just over 2 weeks.

Comment 7

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

I messaged Venetia (PM) to verify the relevant SuMo article is owned/making progress. Leaving the NI as a reminder to follow up on this.

Comment 8

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

Page is live here. I've poked in Bug 1890434 to ensure the plan is for the prior link to redirect to this URL.

Comment 9

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Nick Rishel [:nrishel] from comment #8)

Page is live here.

(That seems to be a preexisting SuMo article, without substantial modifications for a while though; maybe that's fine/intentional since the instructions are presumably still valid? Anyway: I added a followup note on bug 1890434 to mention this, in case the intent was to have some sort of new article associated with this new popup.)