2026242 - Improve Access Connector UX

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Enterprise Products :: Firefox, enhancement)

Description

[Josh Porter [:jporter]]

Access Connector has a rough UX that repurposed the VPN/ipProtection button and panel. This should be reimplemented with a custom PageAction and panel.

More UX details here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2012421#c1

Comment 1

[Josh Porter [:jporter]]

Attachment: Access-connector.png

The Figma artwork is here, featuring Light, Dark and High Contrast color modes:
https://www.figma.com/design/xYH6L8QrDz0Q16XFvdo7We/%F0%9F%A6%8A-Client-Design?node-id=1862-8748&m=dev&t=drdE7joEk1G5v99t-1

Comment 2

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla/enterprise-firefox] Bug 2026242 - Improve access connector UX (#683)

Comment 3

[Josh Porter [:jporter]]

I've reached out to @basti for input on how to best detect whether the IPProtection is active for a given site. Rather than taking the complex route, the plan is to have them extract the logic used by IPProtectionToolbarButton.sys.mjs into a function we can use in our own progress listener. This will allow us to control our UX visibility without reimplementing and diverging the logic.

Filed a bug for them to get this into their next sprint.

Comment 4

[BMO Github Automation]

Authored by https://github.com/jporter-dev
https://github.com/mozilla/enterprise-firefox/commit/5c59b6d5008793c1c88ec36d54933dd45c209bc9
[enterprise-main] Bug 2026242 - Add Access Connector urlbar button and panel (#683)