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Fx16: Reading <shipped>

• Feature Tracking
• Product Requirements Document

• Schedule
  • Beta: Aug 28, 2012
  • GA: Oct 9, 2012

• Key Features
  • Reader Mode & Reader List
  • User Feedback Solicitation
  • A11y Improvements (Explore by Touch up to ICS, Quick Navigation Keys, Talkback)

• Deferred Features
  • H.264 - included from Fx 17
  • Google Play Campaign Tracking

Fx17: Casting a Wider Net <shipped>

• Feature Tracking
• Product Requirements Document

• Schedule
  • Feature and String Freeze: Aug 28, 2012
  • Beta: Oct 8, 2012
  • GA: Nov 20, 2012

• Key Features
  • ARMv6 – 800MHz, 512 MB, HVGA
  • A11y Improvements (Explore by Touch including JB support)
  • Media decoding (H.264) on ICS & JB
  • Marketing Campaign ID Tracking (internal feature)
  • Updater improvements

Fx18: Searching Effectively <shipped>

• Feature Tracking
• Product Requirements Document

• Schedule
  • Feature and string freeze: Oct 8, 2012
  • Beta: Nov 19, 2012
  • GA: Jan 8, 2013

• Key Features
  • Product Announcements
  • _Support_ for use of custom fonts
  • Search Suggestions Opt-In
  • Phishing & Malware Protection

Fx19: Making New Friends (shipped)

• Feature Tracking
• Product Requirments Document

• Schedule
  • Feature and String Freeze: Nov 19, 2012
  • Beta: Jan 7, 2013
  • GA: Feb 19, 2012

• Key Features
  • Light-Weight Themes
  • ARMv6 Expanded Support: 600MHz, 512MB, HVGA
    • Tile-by-tile drawing
    • Low-res tiles
    • Mitigating locking (performance optimisation)
  • Support for zh-TW and zh-CN
  • Fx integration into the Google search widget

Fx20: Private and Personal (shipped)

• Feature Tracking
• Product Requirements Document

• Schedule
  • Feature and String Freeze: Jan 7, 2013
  • Beta: Feb 18, 2013
  • GA: Apr 2, 2013

• Key Features
  • Private browsing mode (per tab)
  • All Android-supported locales
  • ARMv6 expanded support: 600MHz, 384MB, QVGA
  • Hiding URL Bar
  • about:home customization
  • Media decoding (H.264) on GB and HC

Firefox 21: Foundations (Shipped)

Schedule

• Tracking Fx21
  • Nightly: Jan 7, 2013
  • Aurora: Feb 18, 2013
  • Beta: Apr 1, 2013
  • Release: May 14, 2013

Features

• [ON TRACK] Distribution files (theme, bookmarks, pinned sites)
• [ON TRACK] HTML5 compatibility roll-up
• [ON TRACK] New web content font
• [ON TRACK] Amazon search url (updated)

Firefox 22: Simple Pleasures (Shipped)

Schedule

• Tracking Fx22
  • Nightly: Feb 18, 2013
  • Aurora: Apr 1, 2013
  • Beta: May 13, 2013
  • Release: Jun 25, 2013

Features

• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovak
• State of good repair:
  • [ON TRACK] ANR Reporter - Not user facing
  • [ON TRACK] Refining Tab UI
  • [ON TRACK] Performance improvements - Including WebGL, texture streaming, async canvas updates

Firefox 23: Real Media (Shipped)

Schedule

• Tracking Fx23
  • Nightly: Apr 1, 2013
  • Aurora: May 13, 2013
  • Beta: Jun 24, 2013
  • Release: Aug 6, 2013

Features

• [ON TRACK] Firefox Health Report
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic URL bar
• [ON TRACK] L10N foundation improvements
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Turkish
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Hungarian
• [ON TRACK] Awesomebar and Awesomescreen improvements
• [ON TRACK] Reader improvements <==PR to take place in Fx24
• [ON TRACK] UI for changing search engine default in add-on manager
• [ON TRACK] RSS/Atom feed handling
• [ON TRACK] API: Payments <== Not user facing but will be tested soon

Firefox 24: (Shipped)

Schedule

• Tracking Fx24
  • Nightly: May 13, 2013
  • Aurora: Jun 24, 2013
  • Beta: Aug 5, 2013
  • Release: Sep 17, 2013

Features

• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, preffed ON
• [ON TRACK] Reader improvements
• [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
• [ON TRACK] Packaged apps foundations, but not exposed until the WebApp Experience has landed
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Icon rebrand
• [ON TRACK] Change default search engine for zh-CN
• [ON TRACK] Add-on definition in distribution files
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Swedish, sv-SE
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: British English, en-GB
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Catalan, ca-ES
• [PROPOSED] Firefox for readers

Firefox 25: (Shipped)

Schedule

• Tracking Fx25
  • Nightly: Jun 24, 2013
  • Aurora: Aug 5, 2013
  • Beta: Sep 17, 2013
  • Release: Oct 29, 2013

Features

• [ON TRACK] API: Web Audio
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Settings UI clean-up excluding search provider management
• [ON TRACK] Guest browsing
• [ON TRACK] Page Actions
• [ON TRACK] SkiaGL improvement
• [ON TRACK] Mixed content
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Ukrainian (ua-UK)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Irish (ga-IE)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Romanian (ro-RO)
• [ON TRACK] Setting wallpaper bug 886996
• [ON TRACK] Developer Tools: Remote Debugging

Firefox 26: (Shipped)

Schedule

• Tracking Fx26
  • Nightly: Aug 5, 2013
  • Aurora: Sep 17, 2013
  • Beta: Oct 29, 2013
  • Release: Dec 10, 2013

Features

• [ON TRACK] AMO discoverability
• [ON TRACK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for en-US, FR, DE, es-ES and en-GB
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign
• [ON TRACK] search provider management in settings menu
• [ON TRACK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued

Firefox 27: (Shipped)

Schedule

• Tracking Fx27
  • Nightly: Sep 17, 2013
  • Aurora: Oct 29, 2013
  • Beta: Dec 10, 2013
  • Release: Feb 4, 2014

Features

• [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

Firefox 28 (Shipped)

Schedule

• Nightly: Oct 29, 2013
• Aurora: Dec 10, 2013
• Beta: Feb 4, 2014
• Release: March 18, 2014

Features

• [AT RISK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker <==backed out
• [ON TRACK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] bug 943475 - Predictive lookup for awesomebar entries
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
• [ON TRACK] Background Thread Hang Reporting bug 932865
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et), bug 946204

Watch list:

• • Appia
  • Amazon
  • iOS (long term)
  • Specific carrier/partner requirements (placeholder)
  • WebRT improvements
    • preferred apps, packaged apps, hosted apps
  • Carrier value-add services integration

• Short-term requests (2-3 releases from now)
  • Always request desktop site
  • Improvements to about:home customization (swipe, tap & hold, ...)

• Medium-term requests (4-5 releases from now)
  • Metrics/Benchmarking (Octane, jsgamebench, GUIMark3, chalkboard, Ringmark, RoboHornet...)
  • WebAPIs: PushNotification, WebPayments, Contacts, WebTelephony, DeviceStorage, WebBluetooth

• Longer-term (over 5 releases from now)
  • Add-on story
  • PiCL v#
  • Security enhancements (fingerprinter reader, scanning downloads, 3rd party plug-ins)

Old Backlog

• iOS support
• X86 support
• Appia
  • Updater: ability to push out updates independent of distribution channel
  • Legal review of ToS (done - Greg)
  • RelEng review of submission process (WIP - Alex)
  • Target market: review of addressable base (WIP - Irina)
  • Data collection from blocklist pings (WIP - Daniel, Brad)
    • Product version
    • OS version
    • Locale
    • Rough location from IP address
    • Device model / name
• WebRT improvements
• Multiple screens
• Octane
• HTML5 (input)
• jsgamebench
• GUImark3?
• Chalkboard
• Ringmark?
• Robohornet
• Fingerprint reader
• Scanning downloads
• Plug-ins for 3rd party virus/scanning
• Always request desktop site
• BUG 814667 - save for later phased approach, which phase?
• Data bandwidth usage optimisation -> carrier play / push to marketplace if we're leaner
• Cost control app (parity with FFOS) - how much the browser uses