Infobars

Infobars are shown at the top of the browser content area, these can be per tab (switching tabs hides it) or global (persistent across tabs).

Example of a Infobar

Infobars

Testing Infobars

Via the dev tools:

  1. Go to about:config, set pref browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.devtoolsEnabled to true

  2. Open a new tab and go to about:asrouter in the url bar

  3. In devtools Messages section, select and show messages from cfr as provider

  4. You should see example JSON messages with "template": "infobar". Clicking Show next to infobar message should show respective message UI

  5. You can directly modify the message in the text area with your changes or by pasting your custom message JSON. Clicking Modify shows your updated message.

  6. Ensure that all required properties are covered according to the Infobar Schema

  7. Clicking Share, copies link to clipboard that can be pasted in the url bar to preview infobar message UI in browser and can be shared to get feedback from your team.

  • Note: Overlapping infobars will not be shown when testing multiple infobar messages

  • Note: Modifying the label property will change the text within the buttons, eg: "label": "Disable"

Via Experiments:

You can test Infobar messaging surface by creating an experiment or landing message in tree. Messaging Journey captures creating and testing experiments via Nimbus.

Example JSON for Infobar

{
  "content": {
    "text": "Your privacy matters. Nightly now securely routes your DNS requests whenever possible to a partner service to protect you while you browse.",

    "buttons": [
      {
        "label": "Okay",
        "action": {
          "type": "ACCEPT_DOH"
        },
        "primary": true
      },
      {
        "label": "Disable",
        "action": {
          "type": "DISABLE_DOH"
        }
      }
    ],
    "priority": 1,
    "bucket_id": "TEST_DOH_BUCKET"
  },
  "trigger": {
    "id": "openURL",
    "patterns": [
      "*://*/*"
    ]
  },
  "template": "infobar",
  "frequency": {
    "lifetime": 3
  },
  "targeting": "firefoxVersion >= 89",
  "id": "Test_Infobar"
}