Firefox/Planning/2011-07-27

• Sync
• Input: 4

• Fast
• Input: 14

SUMO general insights:

• Most requested device is Symbian/Nokia this week.
• Access issues:

Market link not working (19) Need direct link to download (17) Can't download to tablet (24) Overall 158 'I have this problem too' votes related to tablets on SUMO this week.

UX & User Research

Mobile

• Fennecomb - ongoing design and spec work, and visual design and assets likely to pick up again late this week/early next week* Design updates to Fennec about:home underway
• Design updates to about:home underway (Bug 646899, 669166)
  
• Designs for camera UI underway

Market Insights

Desktop

Updates as of July the 18th. Next update in the week of August the 15th (Patrick is on holiday)

• Microsoft held its Worldwide Partner Conference. News and rumours include:
  • Windows 8 will be called "Windows 8" (this had been in doubt previously)
  • Windows timeline rumours: September in Beta, January in RC and April 2012 ready for market
  • Windows Phone 7 will not run on tablets; Windows 8 will
  • Long-term, Windows 9 or 10 will run on the Xbox and other devices

• NSS Labs released another report stating that IE9 is by far the best browser at protecting against socially-engineered malware.

• A Microsoft Research project accidentally went live at the domain socl.com.  Codenamed Tulalip, it reportedly integrated Facebook and Twitter feeds.  Microsoft did not to share any more information about the project.

• Changes in Chromium show that Chrome might get a GUI for multi-profile usage. 

• Google profits up 36%. Google beat forecasts, with profits up 36% in the last quarter (both advertising and click-through rates going up.  During their earnings call, Google quoted 160M users of Chrome (the same figure they quoted in May), and did not discuss Chrome OS at all.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• The beta tablet version of the Dolphin browser, Dolphin for Pad, was released in the Android Market
• Opera anounced a partnership with an Indian mobile game developer and released the June edition of its State of the Mobile browser reports
• The Android Market introduced multiple APK support for a single product, allowing for better device targeting
• Android accounted for 30% of tablet devices sold in Q2 2011, with iOS having a 61% share
• 28% of all mobile phones sold this year will be smartphones, with Nokia being dethroned in Q2 as the top selling smartphone OEM, in favour of Apple or Samsung (final results to become available this week)
• The first device to feature the WP7 Mango update to be the Toshiba Fujitsu IS12T, to be released in Japan in September this year

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

• Mozilla building mobile OS to battle Chrome
• Boot to Gecko: Mozilla's open-source, mobile answer to Chrome OS
• Mozilla plans mobile operating system for phones and tablets
• Firefox maker Mozilla in mobile OS

• Mozilla overhauls Firefox Panorama

• IT Poll: Do You Support Firefox in the Enterprise?

• Mozilla jumps to deal with Google Toolbar demise
• Mozilla Hustles to Handle Demise of Google Toolbar for Firefox
• Google drops its Toolbar for Firefox
• After Six Years, Google Drops Support For Toolbar On Firefox

Questions, Comments, FYI

Actions this week

• Asa to post about the product team's view of 64-bit support and update the group here
  • I haven't done this yet. Still waiting on feedback from plug-in vendors on dates.
• Cheng to file bug on os X lion intercepting old navigation gestures
  • Already done bug 674610
• Cheng/Aakash/Axel to figure out locale-specific input scrubbing