User Actions

A subset of actions are available to messages via fields like action on buttons for CFRs.

Usage

For CFRs, you should add the action type in action and any additional parameters in data. For example:

"action": {
  "type": "OPEN_PREFERENCES_PAGE",
  "data": { "category": "sync" },
}

Available Actions

OPEN_APPLICATIONS_MENU

  • args: (none)

Opens the applications menu.

OPEN_FIREFOX_VIEW

  • args: (none)

Opens the Firefox View pseudo-tab.

OPEN_PRIVATE_BROWSER_WINDOW

  • args: (none)

Opens a new private browsing window.

OPEN_SIDEBAR

  • args: string id of the pane to open, e.g., viewHistorySidebar

Opens a sidebar pane.

OPEN_URL

  • args: string (a url)

Opens a given url.

Example:

"action": {
  "type": "OPEN_URL",
  "data": { "args": "https://foo.com" },
}

OPEN_ABOUT_PAGE

  • args:

{
  args: string, // (a valid about page without the `about:` prefix)
  entrypoint?: string, // URL search param used for referrals
}

Opens a given about page

Example:

"action": {
  "type": "OPEN_ABOUT_PAGE",
  "data": { "args": "privatebrowsing" },
}

OPEN_PREFERENCES_PAGE

  • args:

{
  args?: string, // (a category accessible via a `#`)
  entrypoint?: string // URL search param used to referrals

Opens `about:preferences` with an optional category accessible via a `#` in the URL (e.g. `about:preferences#home`).

Example:

```json
"action": {
  "type": "OPEN_PREFERENCES_PAGE",
  "data": { "category": "general-cfrfeatures" },
}

SHOW_FIREFOX_ACCOUNTS

  • args: (none)

Opens Firefox accounts sign-up page. Encodes some information that the origin was from snippets by default.

FXA_SIGNIN_FLOW

  • args:

{
  // a valid `where` value for `openUILinkIn`. Only `tab` and `window` have been tested, and `tabshifted`
  // is unlikely to do anything different from `tab`.
  where?: "tab" | "window" = "tab",

  entrypoint?: string // URL search params string to pass along to FxA. Defaults to "activity-stream-firstrun".
  extraParams?: object // Extra parameters to pass along to FxA. See FxAccountsConfig.promiseConnectAccountURI.
}

  • example:

"action": {
  "type": "FXA_SIGNIN_FLOW",
  "needsAwait": true,
  "navigate": "actionResult",
  "data": {
    "entrypoint": "onboarding",
    "extraParams": {
      "utm_content": "migration-onboarding"
    }
  }
}

Opens a Firefox accounts sign-up or sign-in page, and does the work of closing the resulting tab or window once sign-in completes. Returns a Promise that resolves to true if sign-in succeeded, or to false if the sign-in window or tab closed before sign-in could be completed. In messaging surfaces using aboutwelcome templates, setting needsAwait ensures that the UI will wait for the Promise to resolve. The navigate and dismiss properties should be assigned the string value “actionResult” for the UI to respect the resolved boolean value before proceeding to the next step.

Encodes some information that the origin was from about:welcome by default.

SHOW_MIGRATION_WIZARD

  • args: (none)

Opens import wizard to bring in settings and data from another browser.

PIN_CURRENT_TAB

  • args: (none)

Pins the currently focused tab.

HIGHLIGHT_FEATURE

Can be used to highlight (show a light blue overlay) a certain button or part of the browser UI.

INSTALL_ADDON_FROM_URL

Can be used to install an addon from addons.mozilla.org.

  • args:

{
  url: string,
  telemetrySource?: string
};

OPEN_PROTECTION_REPORT

Opens about:protections

OPEN_PROTECTION_PANEL

Opens the protection panel behind on the lock icon of the awesomebar

DISABLE_STP_DOORHANGERS

Disables all Social Tracking Protection messages

  • args: (none)

OPEN_AWESOME_BAR

Focuses and expands the awesome bar.

  • args: (none)

CANCEL

No-op action used to dismiss CFR notifications (but not remove or block them)

  • args: (none)

DISABLE_DOH

User action for turning off the DoH feature

  • args: (none)

ACCEPT_DOH

User action for continuing to use the DoH feature

  • args: (none)

CONFIGURE_HOMEPAGE

Action for configuring the user homepage and restoring defaults.

  • args:

{
  homePage: "default" | null;
  newtab: "default" | null;
  layout: {
    search: boolean;
    topsites: boolean;
    highlights: boolean;
    topstories: boolean;
  }
}

PIN_FIREFOX_TO_TASKBAR

Action for pinning Firefox to the user’s taskbar.

  • args: (none)

PIN_FIREFOX_TO_START_MENU

Action for pinning Firefox to the user’s Windows Start Menu in Windows MSIX builds only.

  • args: (none)

SET_DEFAULT_BROWSER

Action for setting the default browser to Firefox on the user’s system.

  • args: (none)

SET_DEFAULT_PDF_HANDLER

Action for setting the default PDF handler to Firefox on the user’s system.

Windows only.

  • args:

{
  // Only set Firefox as the default PDF handler if the current PDF handler is a
  // known browser.
  onlyIfKnownBrowser?: boolean;
}

DECLINE_DEFAULT_PDF_HANDLER

Action for declining to set the default PDF handler to Firefox on the user’s system. Prevents the user from being asked again about this.

Windows only.

  • args: (none)

SHOW_SPOTLIGHT

Action for opening a spotlight tab or window modal using the content passed to the dialog.

BLOCK_MESSAGE

Disable a message by adding to an indexedDb list of blocked messages

  • args: string id of the message

SET_PREF

Action for setting various browser prefs

Prefs that can be changed with this action are:

  • browser.dataFeatureRecommendations.enabled

  • browser.migrate.content-modal.about-welcome-behavior

  • browser.migrate.content-modal.import-all.enabled

  • browser.migrate.preferences-entrypoint.enabled

  • browser.shopping.experience2023.active

  • browser.shopping.experience2023.optedIn

  • browser.shopping.experience2023.survey.optedInTime

  • browser.shopping.experience2023.survey.hasSeen

  • browser.shopping.experience2023.survey.pdpVisits

  • browser.startup.homepage

  • browser.startup.windowsLaunchOnLogin.disableLaunchOnLoginPrompt

  • browser.privateWindowSeparation.enabled

  • browser.firefox-view.feature-tour

  • browser.pdfjs.feature-tour

  • browser.newtab.feature-tour

  • cookiebanners.service.mode

  • cookiebanners.service.mode.privateBrowsing

  • cookiebanners.service.detectOnly

  • messaging-system.askForFeedback

Any pref that begins with messaging-system-action. is also allowed. Alternatively, if the pref is not present in the list above and does not begin with messaging-system-action., it will be created and prepended with messaging-system-action.. For example, example.pref will be created as messaging-system-action.example.pref.

  • args:

{
  pref: {
    name: string;
    value: string | boolean | number;
  }
}

MULTI_ACTION

Action for running multiple actions. Actions should be included in an array of actions.

  • args:

{
  actions: Array<UserAction>
}

  • example:

"action": {
  "type": "MULTI_ACTION",
  "data": {
    "actions": [
      {
        "type": "OPEN_URL",
        "args": "https://www.example.com"
      },
      {
        "type": "OPEN_AWESOME_BAR"
      }
    ]
  }
}

CLICK_ELEMENT

  • args: string A CSS selector for the HTML element to be clicked

Selects an element in the current Window’s document and triggers a click action

RELOAD_BROWSER

  • args: (none)

Action for reloading the current browser.

FOCUS_URLBAR

Focuses the urlbar in the window the message was displayed in

  • args: (none)

BOOKMARK_CURRENT_TAB

Bookmarks the tab that was selected when the message was displayed

  • args:

{
  // Whether the bookmark dialog should be visible or not.
  shouldHideDialog?: boolean;
  // Whether the bookmark confirmation hint should be visible or not.
  shouldHideConfirmationHint?: boolean;
}

SET_BOOKMARKS_TOOLBAR_VISIBILITY

Sets the visibility of the bookmarks toolbar.

  • args:

{
  visibility?: string; // "always", "never", or "newtab"
}

CREATE_NEW_SELECTABLE_PROFILE

Creates a new user profile and launches it in a separate instance.

Any message that uses this action should have canCreateSelectableProfiles as part of the targeting, to ensure we don’t accidentally show a message where the action will not work.

  • args: (none)