Platform/2010-Q4-Goals

General Goals

• [ON TRACK] Finish Firefox 4 blockers.
• [ON TRACK] Support Firefox Team to stand up a browser on Electrolysis.

GFX

• [ON TRACK] Ship Firefox 4 final with layers composition accelerated using:
  • OpenGL on Mac OS X;
  • Direct3D on Windows.
• [ON TRACK] Ship Firefox 4 final with content accelerated using Direct2D on Windows Vista/7.
• [ON TRACK] Ship Firefox 4 final with better Opentype font feature support using Harfbuzz on all tier-1 platforms, and text rendering performance equal to or better than Firefox 3.6.
• [ON TRACK] Ship Firefox 4 final with full WebGL 1.0 support turned on by default on all platforms that support OpenGL.

Layout

• [ON TRACK] Integrate Opentype santizer library

Video

• [ON TRACK] Play back video on Fennec without blocking on main content thread
• [ON TRACK] Integrate codec ARM optimizations

Content

• [ON TRACK] Ship indexedDB
• [ON TRACK] Ship HTML5 parser
• [ON TRACK] Ship HTML5 forms (current set)
• [ON TRACK] Ship GC compartments work
• [ON TRACK] Proof of concept implementation of a proxy based DOM binding
• [ON TRACK] 30% performance improvment on the Cal_* tests in Zimbra

JS

• Performance 15% improved over Oct 1 Sunspider perfomance
• Performance 15% improved over Oct 1 v8 performance
• Continuous ARMv7 Android and Maemo JS Shell regression and performance testing in place

Accessibility

• [ON TRACK] Drive blocker list to zero.
• [ON TRACK] Develop implementation plan for OOP content accessibility.

Multi-Process

• [ON TRACK] Fix and ship multi-process plugins on Mac
• [ON TRACK] Fix and ship asynchronous plugin painting on all plaforms
• [ON TRACK] Fix and ship content processes on Fennec