Firefox/Planning/2014-03-05

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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

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop & Platform

Current Releases

• Smooth sailing

Beta (147)

• Last Desktop 28 beta going to build on Thursday
• we had to disable <input type="color"> for too many issues on several platforms (see bug 977301 ship in 29

Firefox Metro

• Final iteration before Metro releases with Firefox 28.
• 5 realease blockers remain under development this iteration.
  • View Release Plan
• 13 resolved bugs waiting for QA verification for the 30C-29A-28B release cycle.

Firefox Mobile

Beta (147)

• [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] 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

Aurora (54)

• [ON TRACK] Toolbar Refactor
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Hindi(hi), bug 960059
• [ON TRACK] Shumway Bundled in Browser but disabled, bug 905668
• [ON TRACK] Promo snippet for Sync
• [ON TRACK] Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace
• [ON TRACK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [ON TRACK] Ability to "Hide" existing panels in about:home (see the full project page for more details)
• [AT RISK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on, bug 862801
• [AT RISK] Replace throbber with progress bar bug 917896, bug 959776. UX Signoff: 03/04
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 521995
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Latvian (lv) , bug 958021
• [AT RISK] APK Synthesis on by default
• [AT RISK] Promo snippet for Marketplace UX Signoff: 03/04
• [AT RISK] Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.5 integration UX Signoff: 03/04
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync bug 958889 (nice to have, shift to 30 if needed)

Nightly (148)

• [AT RISK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 942231
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833
• [AT RISK] Third-party service integration MVP
  • [AT RISK] My List: How My List works (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Save any web-viewable content (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Add new My List from Promotional Panel (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Subscribe to feed or service as a new list (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Add new and improved list management in Settings (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] Service integration: Downloads (MVP reqs only) <== Need to reduce scope
• [AT RISK] Preferred web content language
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [AT RISK] Quickshare on the context menu
• [PROPOSED] Placeholder for FxA/Sync Backlog
• [PROPOSED] WebRTC tab streaming
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Argentine Spanish (es-AR)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Mexican Spanish (es-MX)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Malay (ms)

Feedback Summary

Desktop/Platform

• Chrome beta for Android version 34 added built-in Chromecast streaming for videos so a laptop is not required to cast web videos to the TV. [1] Chrome 34 also introduces a new HTML attribute for responsive images and the unprefixed version of the JavaScript Web Audio API [2], besides hands-free Google Voice Search.[3]

• Juniper research forecasts that revenues generated from Smart Home services are set to reach a global market value of $71 billion by 2018, rising from $33 billion last year, with 80% of that revenue expected to come from entertainment services. [4] Microsoft Research has built the prototype [5] of a 3D browser called SurroundWeb, which allows Web pages to display content across multiple surfaces in a room [6], highlighting a role for the browser in the entertainment services segment. Apple TV device and content revenues rose to $1B last year. [7]

• Data since the 1920s shows that the U.S. advertising industry has always been between 1% and 1.4% of GDP, averaging 1.29%. [8] For each “new” medium at the time — radio, television, and Internet — the growth pattern has seen similar curves. The first 5 years saw rapid (but declining) growth rates, and after the fifth year, growth rates stagnated. In this context, Google's approach with Google+ at the center [9] and Spider.io acquisition [10] is precise targeting which Fiber [11], Glass, Now, Cars, etc enhance.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

• Firefox 29 Launch: We’re cranking on this, currently creating the post-tour landing page that we’ll be using at launch. Lot’s and lot’s of other projects at work as well.
• Firefox for Windows 8 Touch: We’ll be using the What’s New page to let Windows 8 users know we now also work in touch-mode
• Firefox Engagement Meetup: Most of the Engagement team will be locked in a room talking Firefox tomorrow