Firefox/Planning/2011-06-01

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde Conference Room
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

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Actions from Last Week

• Johnathan to add Firefox 7 section to meeting agenda
  • DONE!

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox 3.6.x/3.5.x/4.0.x

• Snippets for 3.5 EOL will be live soon
• We're still triaging and approving bugs for 3.6.18, which will ship with Firefox 5
• No plans to do a 4.0.2 currently
  • The next "point release" for Firefox 4 is Firefox 5

Firefox 5 (Desktop)

• Currently on the beta channel
• Refreshed the build on the channel today (was going to be yesterday but got late in the day)
• Currently parsing feedback data but looks pretty decent
• Channel switching UI likely to be removed (in favour of separate downloads for various channels)

Firefox 6 (Desktop)

• Currently on the aurora channel
• Getting decent uptake, have about ~34k users on a 6.0a2 build
• Two issues we're watching:
  1. Overall size of the aurora channel population
     • Product Marketing and Christian have a short-term plan to try to grow the overall population...will be written up today
  2. Stratification of aurora channel population across Aurora builds
     • Will be asking metrics for uptake data within a channel
     • May need to instrument product more (such as what % of users see the add-on compatibility dialog, etc) if we don't have this data already

Firefox 7 (Desktop)

• Currently on the nightly channel
• Always difficult to know what's coming down the pipe but items of note MAY include:
  • Interesting new developer tools including an inspector/highlighter
  • Opt-in on third-party installed addons

Firefox 4.0.x (Mobile)

• No plans to do a 4.0.2 currently

Firefox 5 (Mobile)

• Currently on the beta channel
• Beta 3 getting prepped for release today

Firefox 6 (Mobile)

• Currently on the aurora channel
• Prepping any aurora approval requests, mainly for gingerbread theme changes currently in nightly

Firefox 7 (mobile)

• Currently on the nightly channel
• New gingerbread theme
• Getting good traction on many code projects
• Need to update the flight tracking page with updated estimates

Add-on SDK 1.0

• RC1 planned for last Wednesday, but delayed for important late landings and to fix recently-identified bugs
• expect to bounce off zarro blooker boogs and ship RC1 today or tomorrow
• release remains on track (nominal release date was June 8, actual date delayed to line up with Firefox 5 release on June 21)

Press & Public Reactions

• Firefox 6 arrives in Aurora Channel
• Firefox 6 Alpha 2 released in parallel with Firefox 5 Beta

• 3D HTML5 video shows up in Firefox
• YouTube 3D vids viewable via Firefox, NVIDIA 3D Vision hardware

• Mozilla delivers Firefox 5 beta on schedule
• After a Few Short Months, Firefox 4 Is Mozilla's Leading Browser Version