Project Fission

Project Fission is the project name for revamping and strengthening the architecture of Firefox browser.

Project planning

Project Fission is a Cross Functional engineering effort across the Platform organization.

Task	Name
All Mochitests running and passing in central (unrelated to session history or other long-term ongoing projects)	Kris Maglione, Andrew McCreight, Kashav Madan
All non-fission tests passing in ‘ash’	Peter Van Der Beken, Olli Pettay
All Reftests with fission passing on central	Jonathan Watt
WindowProxy transplanting	Andrew McCreight
DocumentChannel & Process switching	Matt Woodrow, Jean-Yves Avenard
Make history navigations asynchronous	Olli Pettay
Screenshot platform API	Matt Woodrow
The 'load' event should wait for OOP-iframes to load	Jonathan Watt
BrowsingContextGroup actors	Andreas Farre
Kickoff: Replace nsIDocShellTreeItem with BrowsingContext	Kannan Vijayan
Kickoff: Make session history IPC async	Olli Pettay, Anny Gakhokidze
Make it clear that methods which won't work past Fission are process-bound	Kannan Vijayan
Convert content-sessionStore to C++	Alphan Chen
Convert SessionHistoryListener to C++	Alphan Chen
Make the audio/video controls Fission-aware	Abdoulaye Oumar Ly
Make the fullscreen code Fission-aware	Abdoulaye Oumar Ly
Make Plugin Click-to-Play Fission-aware	Gijs Kruitbosch
Make 'Find in page' work in fission world	Neil Deakin
Make Login Manager fission-compatible	Neil Deakin
Make RemotePrompt Fission-compatible	Mike Conley
Make DateTimePicker Fission-aware	Abdoulaye Oumar Ly
Add browser tests for a11y tree and events on OOP iframes	James Teh

Role	Name
Engineering Project Manager	Ron Manning
Product Manager	Mike Conca
Project Tech Lead	Nika Layzell
Accessibility Lead	James Teh
DevTools Engineering	Alexandre Poirot
DevTools Engineering	Yulia Startsev
DOM Engineering Manager	Neha Kochar
DOM Engineering	Alphan Chen
DOM Engineering	Andreas Farre
DOM Engineering	Andrew McCreight
DOM Engineering	Anny Gakhokidze
DOM Engineering	John Dai
DOM Engineering	Kashav Madan
DOM Engineering	Kannan Vijayan
DOM Engineering	Kris Maglione
DOM Engineering	Peter Van Der Beken
DOM Engineering	Henri Sivonen
FrontEnd Engineering	Mike Conley
FrontEnd Engineering	Neil Deakin
Graphics Engineering	Matt Woodrow
Graphics Engineering	Jean-Yves Avenard
Memshrink Lead	Eric Rahm
Memshrink Engineering	Kris Maglione
Layout Engineering	Jonathan Watt
Media and WebRTC Lead	Nils Ohlmeier
Necko Engineering	Valentin Gosu
Necko Engineering	Dragana Damjanovic
Office-of-CTO Consultant	Boris Zbarsky
Security Lead	Tom Ritter
Standards Lead	Anne van Kesteren