957261 - Devtools first run experience

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 953166

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

As hilarious as this might be to us, it concerns me a bit as well:

https://twitter.com/embee/status/416121742738739200

Smart people agree:

https://twitter.com/humphd/status/416948424617893889

I think the tools should include some sort of first run experience, in particular now that we've taken over F12. I don't have a particular agenda for what it should look like, but some concerns I have are:

* non-dev users should have a simple explanation of what the tools are, with a 'would you like to know more...' hook, possibly to MDN.

* developers opening the tools on a fresh profile should be able to get rid of the interruption easily and get on with their work

* if we include this we have the opportunity to ask developers permission to provide anonymous usage data to help us improve the devtools

Comment 1

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

cc'ing Darrin whose expertise would be critical for getting this done. Darrin - what do you think?