957414 - New snippets to promote sync/firefox accounts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 992966

(Snippets Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

We are aiming for Sync based on Firefox Accounts to hit desktop firefox in the 29 cycle and as a part of this, we would like a snippet to promote the use of sync.

The wording will be something like "Sync is brand new and easier than ever. [Let's get started]"

The 2 complications I see are:

* We only want to promote this to users who don't currently have sync setup.  According to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Firefox_Start/Snippet_Service#Client_match_rules, we don't currently have a way of filtering based on this.

* The "[Let's get started]" portion should be a link that opens (probably) an about:sync-setup or similar page (either in a new tab, or replacing the about:home tab - not yet clear).  I'm not sure if/how the snippets infrastructure supports this.

Comment 1

[James Bonacci [:jbonacci]]

/me wonders if there should be an Android equivalent of this bug and whether or not we want to open an issue in the fxa-content-server GitHub repo for the main UX/UI work for this...

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Per the Sync meeting today and IRC discussion with jgruen, we're going to postpone this until post-29 (given the complications mentioned in comment 0).