<div dir="ltr"><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt" id="m_-3908943258085099864gmail-docs-internal-guid-f118f951-7fff-2d52-c688-a01bffa51b50"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Firefox Journey Team - Newsletter Issue 3</span></h2><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Welcome to the third edition of </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Firefox Journey Team News</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This is a monthly email newsletter for the Firefox Journey Team, giving us a place to celebrate our wins, publicize calls-to-action, and raise visibility of work that pushes forward our part of the Firefox mission: to help users onboard into the Firefox browsing experience, and take that experience with them to other platforms, devices and apps.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this issue</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: two new uses of a pairing code to connect your mobile device to Firefox, and taking the wraps off Project Nimbus.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">🦊 Download Firefox with a snap 📸📲</span></h2><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Today, users who create a Firefox Account on Desktop will find themselves encouraged to set up Firefox on their mobile device in order to get the full Sync experience. The current UX lets them send a link to their phone via SMS in order to automatically download Firefox. While it's been pretty effective at driving mobile downloads, the FxA team wants to do even better.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">That’s why we’re currently A/B testing a new flow, where users can </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">scan a QR code</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to install Firefox via the App Store or Google Play, launch it, and open the FxA login page ready to connect to their account—all with a snap of their camera! Check it out:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:medium none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:243px;height:303px"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/T9ITVnuy9HzWw6BoNsQ3O52q4ggyd-RbIJKJ7vi0WhAVpp82Ng86D6JrgOfk9clkPhZYdB3WWpEBFF_Zzy5AlU2I6iagw9uY_MHy3GvWHPpXZDevnm_5r5vm0USAKRBJuM7P-7LH" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px" width="243" height="303"></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">      </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:medium none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:222px;height:303px"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/kLrhZR--NSjpcqNCmOmfUWcqLxXqXDj_RWoBz0tjoh38OGD4tKfjqk4kd0S4Ywu7-cT3mURh3tqLv3SL0u521-ICji4mcN4bby55feWHdDCfFmwExN2gdxwMMW243XKZsnQOrYLt" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px" width="222" height="303"></span></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Vijay Budhram</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, who worked on this feature, has prepared a </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=12xAOCaEtF9AwplB9wpy3sg4ZQ96QFTbo" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">video demo of the new flow</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> if you'd like to see it in action end-to end.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">👭 Gemini season brings pairing to iOS 👬</span></h2><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In last month's newsletter, we highlighted the effort to move Firefox for iOS away from using some legacy Firefox Accounts client code, and on to using the shared Application Services </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">FxA Rust component</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. This wasn't just an exercise in cleaning up some legacy code; it was also a strategy to help simplify the rollout of new Account-related features across all Firefox browsers. This month we're pleased to share the first major payoff of that strategy.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Users who are already signed in to Firefox on their Desktop device can now quickly set up Sync on Firefox for iOS (version 26 and newer) by scanning a QR code:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:167px;height:271px"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Skv3lWni6ho5Qenmzb_pkruBRgTOHcLwWr7a_I-y_h2F69QvW6baGtArW0WxluqyxPOUrKkHOjtxyAcbe3eVQjnyO8X5h781EBZowmQvoRZSGG8Nae6Whf8yFLtr1POo0-zjvnFt" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px" width="167" height="271"></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">          </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:1pt solid rgb(0,0,0);display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:170px;height:273px"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/rVu74lXkcLLucKpuvoZoyOU1rVAwxOCy_ywFyhXihVSwhARS9sWkYXu9wZiNixQGSM7iZJtjy5y6g3npL5ecwrROH09JMDEERyoj5odvYJkPCJk9vMEDJaAul3k1QRh16xBjCO0C" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px" width="170" height="273"></span></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks to the shared client code, this implementation was able to re-use much of the underlying pairing logic and encryption key management that was implemented for a similar flow on Fenix. Many thanks to </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kayla Galway</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for her work integrating this logic seamlessly into the Firefox for iOS experience!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">By the way, if you're wondering, “Hey, why are there two similar-but-distinct QR-code-based setup flows?”—don’t worry, you're not the only one! There are some subtle crypto and security concerns that mean they need to be separate for now, but we'll continue to be on the lookout for ways to integrate them into an even smoother experience.</span></p><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">🧹 Seeking Data with Project Nimbus 💨</span></h2><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Project Nimbus is a cross-team collaboration that strives to scale up our existing experimentation capabilities with a </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">simplified workflow for launching experiments and analyzing results</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The project leverages data-scientist-vetted design guidance and end-to-end monitoring to assure the experiment reliability and quality, and provide automated analysis. It’s just like magic!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nimbus is currently under heavy development across multiple teams (Product Delivery, Data Science, Data Engineering, and User Journey) for the first milestone, which will allow experiment owners to launch </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A/A tests</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (that’s not a typo! A/A tests are tests without any variations), and soon after, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CFR experiments</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> with a single review step.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We will continue to share more progress of Nimbus in the future. Watch this space!</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Next Time ...</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our next edition will be published on July 17th.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This newsletter is distributed BCC to the following mailing lists: <a href="mailto:ckarlof-all@mozilla.com" target="_blank">ckarlof-all@mozilla.com</a>, <a href="mailto:firefox-dev@mozilla.org" target="_blank">firefox-dev@mozilla.org</a>, <a href="mailto:faet-accompli@mozilla.com" target="_blank">faet-accompli@mozilla.com</a>.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you've got something you'd like to share, please add it to the </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DGm23rTXAxSxT-FfTcXKCXb2cOXcqHL5HuS0DfZeH5A/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Google Doc </span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Mozilla internal-only for now) or submit via email to </span><a href="mailto:nanjiang@mozilla.com" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">nanjiang</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><a href="mailto:lina@mozilla.com" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">lina</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or </span><a href="mailto:rfkelly@mozilla.com" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">rfkelly</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. If you'd like to get involved in editing and publishing the next newsletter, we'd love to hear from you!</span></p><br><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Until next time, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Stop_Believin%27" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">don’t stop believin’</span></a><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">! 🎶</span></div>