Firefox/Meeting/13-Oct-2015

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Actions from last meeting

  • Invite Nick Nguyen to talk about ideas for the Spring release

General Topics / Roundtable

(tips/tricks/FYI, productivity improvements, industry news)

Friends of the Firefox team

(Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Introductions)

Resolved bugs (excluding employees): http://mzl.la/1N9TgY9 More than one bug fixed:

  • Manav Batra
  • Richard Marti (:Paenglab)
  • Steven Englehardt [:englehardt]
  • Tom Schuster [:evilpie]
  • Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]

Project Updates

Add-ons

E10s

Go Faster

Hello

  • Visual refresh complete and landed in 43.
  • 44 is refocussing on sharing, and is simplifying the UI bug 1209713

Notifications

  • Basic management UI landed
  • OS X native notification options landed
    • not working in e10s (2 bugs filed)
  • A new XUL design/layout is in review, as well as "Do not disturb" and "disable for site" ability on XUL notifications is in review

Privacy/Security

[MattN] There will be a 2nd firstrun tab for Fx42 (and some subsequent releases) to promote Private Windows with Tracking Protection

Planning for spring/fall releases last week. Some of the most likely spring release features are:

  • insecure passwords
  • captive portals
  • permissions in CC, notifications
  • malware downloads
  • TP in normal mode
  • tracking detection

Search

  • Suggestions are riding the trains
  • Currently focusing on making all search access points have the same features

Windows 10

  • Working on theming improvements
  • Migration (telemetry)

This week I learned…

[mconley] nginx is pronounced "Engine X" and not "En-Jinx". Huh.

  • [mikedeboer] It's Russian, too... might explain it.