731144 - Too hard to find how to migrate from another browser if you missed the first-time train

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1820655

(Firefox :: Migration, defect, P3)

Description

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

When I worked on the Safari migrator, I think I used MXR to figure out where is that item hiding now. It's especially hard on mac where the unlabeled "import and export" has a somewhat meaningless icon.

Regardless of the OS X-specific issue, one (and one rather experienced with UIs...) would only think of the "Show All History/Bookmarks" windows as the place for migration only if bookmarks/history migration is what s/he is looking for.  There's no chance that I would realize that if I want my cookies back, I need to Show All Bookmarks.

This item used to live under the File menu for quite a while. I can imagine why it was removed from there, but I don't think this solution works.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

actually was an explicit UX request to reduce contents of the file menu and just keep the import in the Library, that said we don't even have anymore a file menu on any system using the appmenu (yes, OS X doesn't).

Comment 2

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

I know, and of course I don't suggest to move it back to the file menu. 

The preferences dialog might work.

Comment 5

[Kyle Sanderson]

Any update on this Matt?

Comment 6

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Not specifically… though there was a recent project to offer migration from about:newtab for a while in new profiles so that may be enough to address this.

Comment 8

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

In bug 1620536 we moved the "Import from another browser" menu item to the Help menu (available under the app or "hamburger" menu).

Comment 9

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

A couple of other ideas:

• There are no matches if you search in about:preferences for "import". Its not strictly a setting/preference, but this seems like a place users might go to find this feature.
• Bug 888560 is about offering to import if and older profile sees new use.

Comment 10

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S4. However, the bug has 3 duplicates.
:Gijs, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

For more information, please visit auto_nag documentation.

Comment 11

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Release mgmt bot [:marco/ :calixte] from comment #10)

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S4. However, the bug has 3 duplicates.
:Gijs, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

For more information, please visit auto_nag documentation.

We already addressed this bug in various ways (e.g. entry in the main file menu) and the severity was determined after the duplicates got marked, so I don't think this has any bearing on it.

Comment 12

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

We've added an entrypoint to the import wizard in about:preferences. I think we can close this one out now.