Firefox/Planning/2012-04-11

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 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# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Warp Core
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Add-on SDK

Release (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)

• Released Hotfix 1.6.1
  • Fixes a minor memory leak found by Mingyi Liu

Stabilization (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)

• Released 1.7b1 yesterday
• On track to release 15 May 2012

Development (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)

• On track to merge to Stabilization 15 May 2012

• Alex Poirot released the Locale-Updater Add-on
  • Localizers can have one-click testing of new .properties files for any installed SDK-based Add-on through the Add-on Manager
  • Alex is eager to improve this - so feedback is encouraged!

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Adobe

• Adobe updated Flash because of two high severity security issues.

Amazon

• Amazon released the In-App Purchasing API for applications sold in their Android appstore. This API allows application developers to monetize not only only on the initial sale of applications but by selling upgrades, features, and other content directly in their applications. Consumers can make purchases using their existing Amazon IDs. Both Google and Apple's stores have similar functionality.

Apple

• Apple released a critical update for Java to address, in part, a vulnerability that had allowed the Flashback Trojan to infect more than half a million Mac OS X systems worldwide.

Google

• The Android team released an updated emulator for the platform, adding GPU support, more hardware feature emulation and improved CPU performance.
• The team also published a new Accessibility Developer Guide for Android.
• Google Chrome's WebRTC team also published a roadmap of upcoming work to fine-tune their WebRTC implementation that is arriving in Chrome. Upcoming work includes screen sharing, a data API, and recording.
• Chrome's stable and beta channels were updated. Fixes included 12 security issues, including a number of use-after-free issues.
• The Beta version now has tab syncing across different instances of the browser, including both desktop and mobile versions.
• The Dev version of ChromeOS now has the Aura window manager, changing the interface to be much more like that of a standard operating system like Windows.
• There are indications that Google Analytics will be integrated with Google Plus

Microsoft

• Microsoft, in partnership with Bocoup, a HTML5 training provider, annnounced BuildNewGames.com, a website that aims to introduce and promote the use of open web technologies to build great gaming experiences "without plugins". The section on mobile browsers is interesting, as it includes some frames-per-second benchmarks of performance on the iPhone, iPad, and Galaxy Nexus.
• Microsoft also released eleven patches for Windows and Internet Explorer, seven of which were listed as "critical"

Tizen

• The Tizen group published the presentations made at the Linux Foundation Summit. These include an architecture overview, a summaries of the greater Tizen community and the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, and descriptions of planned use of the Wayland display server and the oFono telephony stack

Webkit

• Webkit announced availability of version 1.0 of the Webkit remote debugger. This JSON-based tool is now supported in the Blackberry Playbook and Chrome for Android.
• Webkit also now supports Battery Status and Vibration APIs on the Blackberry, arguably the first WebKit port to do so.
• The author of the open source color picker used in WebKit's Web Inspector posted a good overview of its design and features

Other

• The HTML5rocks.com team posted a good list of summaries and documentation for the internals of a number of different web browsers.
• A new internet service provider in the United States intends to be a a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Press

• HTML5 roundup: Mozilla demos standards-based video chat in Firefox
  
• Mozilla Builds Video Chat App Using Nothing but Web Standards
  
• Mozilla demonstrates standards-based video chat in Firefox
  
• Future Versions of Firefox Could Feature Built-In Video Chat

• 'Do Not Track' Web Browser Option Gains Steam