Fennec/NativeUI/Showcase12-21

Features

• To refresh on the list of Features and their priority, click here.
• To refresh on the plan of record per Toronto's offsite, click here.
  
• To see baseline vs. current reality, click here:

Schedule and Milestones

• December
  • 12/19: meetings for bookmark storage & sync are on calendar
  • 12/20: All P1's Features Complete. Checkin approval process begins for eng for aurora; limit string changes
  • 12/21: Showcase Jay, Beard [Full Feature Review]
  • 12/28 <--- written status sufficient for showcase?
• January
  • 1/4: Showcase Jay, Beard
  • 1/11: Showcase Jay, Beard
  • 1/16: MWC prep meetings begin
  • 1/17: Proposed String Freeze
  • 1/18: Showcase Jay, Beard
  • 1/25: Showcase Jay, Beard
  • 1/23: Beta Candidate Build
  • 1/31: Beta Declare
• February
  • 2/1: Jay, Beard
  • 2/8: Jay, Beard
  • 2/15: Jay, Beard
  • 2/22: Jay, Beard
  • 2/29: Mobile World Congress
• March
  • 3/5: release candidate available
  • 3/7: Convergence, showcase to cover top bugs and feedback
  • 3/14: Release Candidate Go Live

List of Demos

• View port is looking Better: bug 711232
  • Navigate to bookmark list and long tap on cnn.com
  • See Context menu; open in new tab
  • Click
  • See that animation is much smoother although no perfect

• Panning and Zooming is Better: bug 708893
  • Do a comparison phone of panning and zooming

• Android BACK button is more intelligent: bug 699052
  • Uses a parent/child model like desktop Firefox
  • Knows about externally opened tabs (from twitter, etc)

• Clear Site Settings: bug 706876
  • Login into a website (twitter or bugzilla) and save the password
  • Menu > More> Clear Site Settings
  • Shows a list of permission in effect on the site, allowing you to clear them

• Click to play: bug
  • Load site
  • Load video
  • See option to play and click

• New Save Image bug 708273
  • Go to bookmarked page: http://bradgerlach.com.gallery.html
  • Chose an image
  • Long tap on the image
  • See context menu and chose "save image"
  • Note updates in the download manager

• Tweaks and polish:
  • URLBar and Awesomebar fixes for ICS and theme update bug 708700 and bug 708616
  • Thumbnails in Tab List bug 704864
  • "Settings" instead of "Preferences" bug 709921
  • "Plugins" instead of "Flash" bug 710703
  • Add context menu actions (Share / Open in New Tab / Add to Home Screen) to Awesomebar bug 711905

• Form Autocomplete Status:
  • Bustage fix for key events bug 712118
  • Form autocomplete should have a minimum width bug 711198

MTD

• We had a sweet brownbag last Friday: https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Af9ejaFxk72tZGM0OHB0MnpfNTFuOHFiNzhkYw
• We've got 282 people on the mailing lists
• We've had 68 bugs marked with the "[MTD]" whitelist entry
• We've had >40 feedback responses including opinions and other issues
  • scatter plot of feedback
• Major papercuts have been:
  • zooms done during page load are reset (bug 708601 and bug 710298
  • funky viewport resizing when page loading (bug 707965 and bug 711232)
  • sync
  • Sites not loading (grey screen only)
  • Checkerboarding in general
  • Checkerboarding specifically on the sides of the screen in landscapes
  • Copy/paste

Android Device and Hardware Distribution Update

• Support status
  • 31% of Android install base supported
  • 58% of Android install base on ARMv6
  • 7% of Android install base untested

• Addressable market
  • Oct 2011: 70 million
  • Q1 2012: 100 million
  • APAC largest Android market, but high ARMv6 marketshare
  • North America largest addressable market
  • APAC, Western Europe 2nd largest addressable markets

• Supported devices
  • 13 CPU and RAM configurations supported
  • most popular configuration is 1 GHz CPU; 512 MB RAM

• Android install base
  • Firefox covers most of the high-end spectrum and part of medium-end
  • ARMv6 support has significant impact if we can target 600 MHz CPU; 258 RAM