562376 - Interface design problem: Users do not wish to be modally challenged on startup.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 551861

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Christian M. Cepel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Generally speaking, when a user launches a web browser, it's because they have a destination to reach.  They do not want to be challenged with an extra dialog they must dispatch before getting to the location dialog (or in my and other's case, the destination specified when launched from the Windows Run dialog).

I believe a user wants the ability to launch and then turn to other tasks and turn back to the browser when it has loaded and is ready to interact (i.e., it's loading existing sessions, a location dialog is available, etc).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

This is a known problem, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Eradicate_Startup_Dialogs

We don't appear to have a meta bug this one could be duplicated to. Do we need one, Alex?

Comment 2

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

we have a meta bug to cover all of notification, bug 551861.  It's still be set up with dependent bugs, but this is certainly an area that we are focusing on for the next release.