Platform/Roadmap

Teams

Accessibility

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DOM

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Previous Plans

Service Workers IndexedDB in Workers Picture Tag requestSync (FxOS-only precursor to BackgroundSync) TCP Socket in Workers e10s (drag-and-drop, clipboard, leak detection and reporting) ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ BackgroundSync Pre-rendering API Shadow DOM Custom Elements Web Manifest ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ Web Push Image Resizing API Web Share primitive (towards Web Activities standardization) finish remaining WebIDL conversions JS-implemented plugins IndexedDB data change observer events localStorage + Quota Manager FileSystem API Media Control API Device Orientation Locking (any spec work; others doing implementation) Broadcast channel Message Port Remove appcache Directory upload DOM bits of Object.observe Get rid of child array WebGL in Workers Web Audio in Workers ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

e10s

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Graphics

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FirefoxOS GFX Device Support OMTC - Off Main Thead Compositing Windows e10s - Ship Electrolysis Project Silk Graphics - FirefoxOS Critical Memory Usage Reduction WebGL 2 GDC Demo Critical WebGL Desktop Peformance Desktop OOM driver related issues ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ APZ on Desktop Tiling on Desktop Desktop Scrolling Performance ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ APZ - "fake overscroll" APZ - OOP iframe support Zooming-in Improvements Overscroll Improvements Expose the graphics card details WebGL Mobile Performance WebGL Performance Parity on Desktop ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

Nothing here for now.

JavaScript

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Previous Plans

Parsing and Caching Optimization Shumway ARM Mobile Opts - Support GDC demo Detailed GC jank Telemetry ES6 Classes SAB GDC MWC demo SIMD.js GDC MWC demos ARM 64 baseline on Intel CGC Target release JIT Frame for Profiler JIT Coach plumbing Experimental SIMD.js for ASM.js on x86 only (Intel demo) ES6 Generators JITted ES6 Symbols ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ SIMD.js on ION Intel GC/CC scheduling improvements Shared Array Buffer v1 Research PGO Enable the backtracking allocator for all Ion code Improve web framework (Shumway/Ember/Angular) performance ES6 let and const ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ JS team reduce jank (GC tuning) SIMD.js on ION ARM ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

Nothing here for now.

Layout

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Media

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MSE - Media Source Extensions (nightly) EME - Encrypted Media Extensions (nightly) ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ MSE (release) EME (release) Daala ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ MSE improvements EME continued development Video quality, performance and memory consumption MP4 demuxer written in Rust ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

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Mobile Media

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Mobile Platform

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Networking

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PKI

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Sandboxing

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Security

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WebRTC / WebAudio

(All these features/fixes below are landing in Nightly during these quarters)

Current Plans

Previous Plans

Rewrite SDP/JSEP and add BUNDLE support Multistream, renegotiation support VP9 codec support in WebRTC Web Audio and WebRTC working well together e10s problems fixed ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ OpenH264 for Android working well Audio workers Web Audio performance improvements Simulcast All echo and audio problems in WebRTC 1:1 calls resolved ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ getUserMedia and audio output sandboxing working Considerably better NAT traversal (including ICE proxy and UPnP support) Audio output selection Data channels in workers Compliant with "v1.0" (or equivalent) of the WebRTC spec ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

Nothing here for now.

Initatives

• 60fps
  • Focused on producing a smooth, jank free experiences. 60fps goal is dependant on media type.
• BarrierSmash
  • Insure that accessibility features are working throughout our products.
• Candle
  • Program targeted at reducing energy usage.
• CrashKill
  • Improve the overall stability of Gecko and the project that rely on it.
• CritSmash
  • Fix known critical security bugs.
• Electrolysis
  • This is focused on providing multi processor tab support and another name for e10s.
• Offline
  • Offline Support
• Presto
  • Program targeted at improving overall load times and performance. This is resurrecting an older program that was discontinued.
• MemShrink
  • Reduce memory usage (all products)
• Web Compatibility
  • Improve the overall web compatibility of Gecko.
• Webify
  • Reduce the webs dependence on plugins. This includes several content targeted initiatives such as the games program (Unity), Shumway (Flash), MSE/EME (Flash/Netflix), WebRTC (Google Talk, Facebook Video)
  • Games Program