I just clicked through the onboarding flow in Nightly. I noticed that there's a small "Hide the tour" checkbox, but it doesn't seem to have any immediate effect. Actually: it looks like maybe it makes the fox-head icon disappear from new-tab page? In any case, this checkbox is really non-intuitive because: (1) It does not actually hide the tour. Rather, it hides the tour *button* (I think). (2) There are multiple more-prominent things here that could be interpreted as "the tour" [this whole dialog that the checkbox appears on; whatever piece of the UI has been opened for you & highlighted]. (3) The checkbox has no immediate effect -- the fox-head (which I think it controls) doesn't immediately hide/reappear when I tick/untick the checkbox, so it's unclear whether the checkbox actually does anything at all. (It only seems to take effect and hide the fox-head after I *also* click the "X" at the top-right of the tour dialog, I think...?)

(Looks like this behavior was added in bug 1357020 -- adding a dependency & CC'ing some folks from over there)

Here's a screencast of me clicking through the onboarding tour & trying to figure out [as a new user] what this checkbox might do. As you can see, there are multiple things onscreen at various points that are "Tour", and the checkbox has no immediate effect on any of them, which is confusing. I guess my "Expected Behavior" here would be: (1) The checkbox should be more clearly labeled (like "Hide tour button on home page") (2) The checkbox should have an immediate effect when it is checked/unchecked.

hi Michael, could you please comment on this behavior? thank you very much

(In reply to Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] from comment #2) > Created attachment 8878607 [details] > screencast of the onboarding flow & this checkbox's behavior > > Here's a screencast of me clicking through the onboarding tour & trying to > figure out [as a new user] what this checkbox might do. > > As you can see, there are multiple things onscreen at various points that > are "Tour", and the checkbox has no immediate effect on any of them, which > is confusing. > > I guess my "Expected Behavior" here would be: > (1) The checkbox should be more clearly labeled (like "Hide tour button on > home page") > (2) The checkbox should have an immediate effect when it is > checked/unchecked. Well the copy in Nightly is not the copy that's supposed to be there but I think this bug is still valid even with the correct copy. I think we should consider having an undo function. I'll bring it up in our meeting.

The current string is "Mark all as complete and remove the tour" We should come up with better copy for this option. I also filed Bug 1374859 for an undo function.

spec changed in bug 1392474

remove whiteboard tag due to its DUPLICATE