888560 - Offer to re-migrate a user's profile if it's gone unused for months

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Migration, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

(Quoting Asa Dotzler [:asa] from bug 498181 comment 0)
> There are probably a lot of users out there who, for various reasons, have
> since moved from Firefox to another browser. When those users return to
> Firefox to try out a new release, the Firefox profile is no longer up to
> date with their contemporary browsing data. Returning the user to that old
> profile data doesn't make good sense. Also, if the user abandoned Firefox
> because of some profile instability issue from add-ons or other profile
> hackery, then returning them to that old profile doesn't make good sense.
> 
> I believe that Firefox should check at launch and if the profile it's about
> to use hasn't been touched in more than one month (two?), we should prompt
> the user with some kind of a "Would you like to reset Firefox to "factory
> defaults" and/or re-migrate your IE/Chrome/Safari data?" option.
> 
> If the profile is really really old, I think we should just do this
> automatically. 
> 
> If doing things automatically is rejected, then I think we should add a
> button in the advanced prefs that resets Firefox and re-migrates user data
> from other browsers.
> 
> Abandoned Firefox profiles are either out dated or broken or both.  We
> should so something to give the user a better returning to Firefox
> experience.

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Bug 1618311 (currently designed as an experiment) if successful might be interesting to show for existing users. E.g., user has been using Chrome and saved some passwords that don't exist in Firefox, and when the user returns to Firefox some time later, the import suggestion would show up for this user. We might need to rethink how long to show / stop showing the import suggestion to perhaps be frequency capped e.g., 10 total impressions in the past year.