Firefox/Planning/2014-01-29

Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch 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# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

Actions from Last Week

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop & Platform

Current Releases

Beta (126)

• Firefox Desktop 27.0 release candidate has gone to build
  • Executed, "repack final release candidate and offer it to beta users" this cycle. Details here and email on release-drivers

Aurora (54)

• Merge day next Monday, Feb 3
• Aurora will be throttled for the week, as usual

Nightly (127)

• New Release Manager, Sylvestre Ledru will be cutting his teeth on this release, NBD
• Australis onboarding tour is not ready for Aurora on Monday, does this affect shipping?

Firefox Metro

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

Beta (126)

\o/going GA next week!

• We're all systems go for bug 935676 - Flash doesn't work on 4.4 KitKat
• We're down to less than 2.5 crashes per 100 ADU
• We need to figure out slowness caused by Add Block Plus
• [ON TRACK] Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296
• [ON TRACK] Marketplace discoverability - simple UI polish
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475
• [ON TRACK] Memory usage improvements: bug 931843
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN), bug 891616
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th), bug 639845
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt), bug 521999
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl), bug 522008

Aurora (54)

Confirmed features

• [ON TRACK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [ON TRACK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
• [ON TRACK] Background Thread Hang Reporting bug 932865
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et), bug 946204

Nightly (127)

• [ON TRACK] Toolbar Refactor
• [ON TRACK] Ongoing: Startup wins, including removing throbber replacing with progress bar bug 917896, bug 959776
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on
• [ON TRACK] Telemetry probes for Fennec UI elements
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Hindi(hi), bug 960059
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 521995
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv) , bug 958021
• [ON TRACK] Shumway Bundled in Browser but disabled, bug 905668
• [ON TRACK] APK Synthesis on by default
• [AT RISK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts <== need to defer
• [AT RISK] Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.1 integration
• [AT RISK] Promo snippet for Sync
• [AT RISK] My List: Manage current lists in settings the ability to "hide"only, no re-order is ok? Can we ship without drag and drop?
• [AT RISK] Promo snippet for Marketplace
• [AT RISK] Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync bug 958889 (nice to have, shift to 30 if needed)
• [PROPOSED] WebRTC tab streaming

Developer Tools

<Read Only> - travelling

• Landings
  • working to get the new box highlighter landed before merge
  • robcee's bugzilla search for the current cycle: [1] - 191 bugs resolved so far.
• Outbound
  • "Upcoming changes to the Firefox Developer tools node picker" - published last week.
  • The usual Aurora uplift post coming Feb 11th.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Sentiment Report 26 next week
Preparing for Aurora surveys

Mobile

Sentiment Report 26 next week

UX & User Research

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

• Internet Explorer 11 delivered the most battery life and Chrome delivered the least on Windows 8.1 laptops and tablets used for testing at 7 Tutorials [2], similar to previous results on IE10 [3] and IE9. [4]

• Web developers can exploit bugs in Google’s Chrome browser to listen through a computer’s microphone — even if the browser window is not open. [5] The source code for this exploit is available at GitHub [6]

• As the number of users on the Internet expands across the world, for example in India at 243 million users, [7] and the connectivity expands [8], ICANN will expand the number of generic top-level domains from 22 to a few hundreds, starting February.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Questions, Comments, FYI

• Telemetry Experiments as a step towards better experimental and A/B data collection. Questions, concerns, potential desires for the system? contact bsmedberg

Actions this week