2051361 - Chat History, Settings access in Assistant

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Machine Learning: Frontend, enhancement)

Description

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Create an affordance to allow users to access chat history from the Assistant sidebar/full screen view.

https://www.figma.com/design/75Z1LtkCEUJWCxoY2KyNHv/Smart-Window-Q2?node-id=7965-114038

add a new … button next to new chat that opens a menu showing chats and a shortcut to all chats (firefox view) and smart window settings

Comment 2

[Chloe Zhou [:chloezhou]]

Attachment: Bug 2051361 - Add a chat history entry point to the Smart Window assistant. r=#ai-frontend-reviewers-rotation

Sidebar: a "..." button next to New chat opens a menu that navigates in
place (no fly-out submenu) from a main view - Chat history and Smart Window
settings - to a chat history subview listing recent chats plus a shortcut to
all chats.

Fullpage: a labeled top-actions row - New chat, Chat history, and More.
Chat history opens a dropdown of recent chats and a "View all chats"
shortcut; More holds Smart Window settings.

Recent chats are tab-specific: selecting one switches to its tab if open,
otherwise reopens it in a new tab. "View all chats" opens the Chats section
of Firefox View. Recent-chat rows reuse the Firefox View Chats icon treatment,
so a page_url is now carried on ChatMinimal and returned by the
most-recent-conversations query.

Styling follows the design tokens for both nova and non-nova appearances,
with correct light and dark values.

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/99b7171a57c5
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/60276c1f80d2
Add a chat history entry point to the Smart Window assistant. r=fluent-reviewers,desktop-theme-reviewers,gcardieri,dao,bolsson

Comment 4

[Cristian Tuns]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/60276c1f80d2

Comment 5

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Verified as fixed in our latest Nightly 155.0a1 (2026-07-26)

Comment 6

[Chloe Zhou [:chloezhou]]

Attachment: Bug 2051361 - Add a chat history entry point to the Smart Window assistant.

Sidebar: a "..." button next to New chat opens a menu that navigates in place from a main view - Chat history and Smart Window settings - to a chat history subview listing recent chats plus a shortcut to all chats.

Fullpage: a labeled top-actions row - New chat, Chat history, and More. Chat history opens a dropdown of recent chats and a "View all chats" shortcut; More holds Smart Window settings.

Recent chats are tab-specific: selecting one switches to its tab if open, otherwise reopens it in a new tab. "View all chats" opens the Chats section of Firefox View.

Original Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D313089

Comment 7

[Phabricator Automation]

firefox-beta Uplift Approval Request

• User impact if declined/Reason for urgency: Smart Window users have no in-product affordance to reach their chat history or Smart Window settings from the assistant. Without this patch they can't browse or resume recent chats from the sidebar/fullpage view or jump to the Chats section of Firefox View, and settings access is missing.
• Code covered by automated testing?: yes
• Fix verified in Nightly?: yes
• Needs manual QE testing?: no
• Steps to reproduce for manual QE testing:
• Risk associated with taking this patch: low
• Explanation of risk level: The change is confined to the Smart Window / AI Window component. It adds a new UI entry point and a self-contained history menu component rather than modifying existing shipping surfaces; the only cross-cutting change is carrying page_url on ChatMinimal and returning it from the most-recent-conversations query, which is additive. It landed cleanly in 155, is covered by automated tests, and was verified by QE.
• String changes made/needed?: Yes. New Fluent strings were added to browser/locales/en-US/browser/aiWindow.ftl (the aiwindow-history-menu-* and aiwindow-fullpage-* messages). No existing strings were changed.
• Is Android affected?: no

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/e3e973968bd3
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/b216fafb85a5

Comment 9

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Verified as fixed in our latest Beta 154.0b10