Closed Bug 731144 Opened 13 years ago Closed 2 years ago

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

Categories

(Firefox :: Migration, defect, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Migration
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1820655

People

(Reporter: asaf, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: uiwanted)

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.
Keywords: uiwanted
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).
I know, and of course I don't suggest to move it back to the file menu. The preferences dialog might work.
See Also: → 1188478
See Also: → 888560
Any update on this Matt?
Flags: needinfo?(MattN+bmo)
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.
Flags: needinfo?(MattN+bmo)

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

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.
Severity: normal → S4
Priority: -- → P3

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

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Flags: needinfo?(gijskruitbosch+bugs)

(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.

Flags: needinfo?(gijskruitbosch+bugs)

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

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Duplicate of bug: 1820655
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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