722837 - FF11 Doorhanger notification for engagement

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Jaclyn Fu]

Hey Madhava, Erin, 

For the Firefox 11 general release, what do you think about a first run doorhanger notification that informs and engages updating/new users? 

This doorhanger notification on about:home would only be presented once, with lightweight copy about the new version, and a button that lets them "learn more" and another button that says something like "great, start browsing". I would like to be able to give an opportunity for users who are updating to learn more about the benefits and new features, so they're not shocked and dismissive the first time they see it. 

A technical question I have is if this notification would show every FF11 has an update, or just the first time they run FF11. 

Would it be too late to get this code in for the public release? 

Thanks!

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This change has localization implications.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This would affect the existing first-run telemetry opt-in.

Comment 3

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Sorry, but at this point, this doesn't sound like something we should add to the game. We just made string freeze, and adding copy to be written is something that's rather deeply regressing the existing localizations.

For that impact, the introduction doesn't sound badly-block-ship enough.

Comment 4

[Jaclyn Fu]

Thanks for the input everyone - would there be another lightweight, L10N friendly way we could possibly do this?

Comment 5

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

Jaclyn - thanks for opening the bug! The description here helps a lot to establish when and where we'd want to show some of this content. Originally, I'd thought we'd wanted something more like a place to show snippets -- i.e. content hosted remotely (not baked into the product) that could change over time, depending on what we want to talk to the user about.

(this may still also be something we want)

The description here sounds a lot more like a first-run welcome/info experience. We have a spot in the start page for something along these lines, but we currently use it to get people interested in Sync. Would we displace Sync here until after first run to show this?

Regarding being l10n-friendly, all I can think of is if we were showing remotely hosted content so that it'd be on its own l10n cycle, but that doesn't really work with first run because it wouldn't be fast to bring up and show...

Comment 6

[Jaclyn Fu]

Hm, ok that was helpful. I wouldn't prioritize this welcome experience over the Sync promo. So let's just keep as is, and continue thinking about the remotely hosted Snippet-esque placements for the future. 

Thanks!