Firefox/Planning/2011-08-17

Planning Meeting Details

Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde Conference Room
irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
(the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
Vidyo Room: Warp Core
Vidyo Guest URL

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Actions from Last Week

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Release (3.6, 6)

Went out yesterday, yay!
- Tracking a couple of issues, one in specific bug 679604. Not planning to respin at this time as there is a quick/simple workaround that fixes it
- They sent us a cake

Beta (7)

We have builds, QA is looking at them...still plan to push to the beta audience on Thursday
Have the great memory fixes and we are porting forward a trivially safe fix with big wins from Aurora (bug 678422)
Two new localizations, Mongolian (mn) and Swahili (sw). These will follow the new scheme of beta builds in the rapid release cycle, that is, we'll not create release channel builds for them until they're out of beta.

Aurora (8)

We have builds, QA is looking at them...still plan to push to the aurora audience on Friday
Firefox Aurora has CORS, we should be ready to point people to it when our partners announce certain things

Nightly (9)

Setting up the tracking flags for Bugzilla bookkeeping (bug 679792)
Orion editor is being turned on for Scratchpad (bug 679475)

Firefox Mobile

Release (6)

Published to Android Market on Tue, Aug 16: Read full article | see more Press Coverage and PR info below

Beta (7)

Builds started earlier this week. Expected to go into Android Market as "Firefox Beta" end of the week.

Aurora (8)

Master password support landed just in time for merge over, please test!

Nightly (9)

Firefox Sync

(6) - Sync Discovery
Beta (7) - Instant Sync
Firefox Sync Add-on EOL Plan - Phase 1 - Went live last week. ADU's are dropping as expected. Next step is to retire the Sync Add-on entirely with FF 3.6 EOL
Firefox 9+:
- Improving Sync Set Up - In progress.
- Push to Device - In development.

Add-on SDK

myk blogged about Why the Add-on SDK Doesn't "Land in mozilla-central"
dcm posted to dev.planning about a Jetpack roadmap update

Release (1.0)

fully compatible with Firefox 6, no hotfix release needed

Stabilization (1.1)

third test build, 1.1b1, spun and distributed yesterday, Tuesday, August 16 (release announcement)
fourth test build, 1.1b2, on schedule for next Tuesday, August 23
initial draft of release notes now available
release remains on schedule for Tuesday, September 13

Development (1.2)

development continues apace

Input 4.3

Nothing new -> No ETA just yet; IT's having resource constraints that are limiting the amount of coverage for projects across the board.
Bugzilla-part of Tell Us More is being reviewed; The Input-part will be done 1st or 2nd week of September and deployed soon after. There will be a new product called "UnTriage Bugs" created with a "Firefox/General" component where bugs filed from the app will reside. We'll need to figure out a triage team to work on this. If you're interested in joining in this group, please e-mail adesai at mozilla dot com

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Stuff from before the release:

Exc in ev handl: TypeError: error (possibly caused by McAfee?)

Top issues (Firefox 6): (Well defined problems)

Java Not compatible (Users get a Java console not compatible warning... and correlate that with Java not working on some pages): https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/861953
- These should have been just removed but not all were cleaned up, see bug 654131. This shouldn't be an issue in the future
Add-on window doesn't finish loading (need to click on a button on the side) -- https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/862087
Disable domain highlighting
Extensions (As expected, a ton of extensions aren't compatible causing complaints):
- Norton (update was available yesterday - see Norton community post for info, requires LiveUpdate)
- AVG (update was pushed last week according to AVG, available via AVG client update)
- Roboform
- Avast
- Reload Every
- Evernote
- HP printing
- some FTP extension (?)
- Foxtab
- Download manager
- Web DynPro
- Firebug
- Skype (update was pushed yesterday, from discussions with Skype. Skype update required.)
- Morning Coffee
Websites:
- Fafsa

(Less well-defined problems -- either stuff on input or with one-or-two reports or the symptoms are unclear... I'll investigate these further tomorrow)

Outlook links don't open in Firefox anymore (?)
Suddenly really slow (I'm starting to suspect a firewall or something throttles us until it figures it out)
Crashy ("40 crashes so far and counting")
Some missing graphics on webpages (I couldn't reproduce any of the links given but it's a bunch of different reports)
Lost Sync settings/bookmarks (possibly bumped to a new profile)
Problems with middle-button scrolling/trackpads

Mobile

General insights: Numbers are still small enough to be anecdotal, working on mining more data from android market reviews going forward and publishing less frequent reports to make them more reliable.

Clustered Insights Found	Release Channel	Bug Id
No Flash Input: 46 SUMO: New 114 up	All	bug 630007
Clear History Input: 3 SUMO: New 2	Beta	bug 656901
No Copy & Paste Input: 9 SUMO: None	All
Hard to get to Bookmarks Input: 8	All
Images look jagged Input: 5	All	bug 669851

UX & User Research

Market Insights

Desktop

A new IE10 demo, drag-n-drop magnetic poetry, was released.

Microsoft launched a blog for Windows 8 with additional details around a social media strategy concerning the upcoming release. BUILD, Microsoft's new name for its professional developer conference, is taking place the week of September 12th and has already sold out. , It is expected that Windows 8 (and probably IE10) will be released as Beta at BUILD.

A new stable build of Chrome was released, which includes Instant pages (prefetching of first result on a Google search) and a print preview.

The new tab page in Chrome has evolved; where previously a user would see history and apps in one place (and their bookmarks if not enabled in the chrome of the browser), now the user is presented with a "swipeable" page, where they can move between the categories Most Visited, Apps and Bookmarks: scrolling is horizontal, rather than vertical.

Google announced that the latest Beta of Chrome has Native Client integrated for Web Store apps, meaning an app could run C or C++ over the web

Chinese search engine Baidu released its own Chromium browser, codenamed FlyFlow, it came ready with an app store containing 30,000 apps.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

Google intends to buy Motorola Mobility to consolidate its mobile patent portfolio and potentially also to enter the TV equipment business.

Android now accounts for 20% of the smartphone installed base of 750 million.

Opera announced partnerships with:
- Telling Telecom, a mobile phone distributor in China, with whom it launched a mobile browser called Oupeng
- MTN, a carrier operating in South Africa and 20 other African and Middle Eastern countries
- Terra, a Brazil-based Internet company which operates a Web portal and an ISP in the US, Spain and 16 Latin American countries