Firefox/Goals/2009Q2

• [DONE] Ship Firefox 3.5
• evaluation notes:
  • shipped on June 30th

• [DONE] Make Firefox observably faster on all platforms for startup, shutdown, opening a new tab, and looking up a match in the Awesomebar
  • dependencies on QA/releng: requires some automated way of measuring and reporting Topentab, Tawesomebarlookup, Tbeachball, Tloadlink, etc
• evaluation notes:
  • changes happened on mozilla-central
  • feels faster, but interestingly not showing up in usual metrics
  • need to investigate this in the future

• [MISSED] Make Firefox feel more responsive
  • identify and ensure that all actions have some user visible feedback (such as an animation or action completion) within 100ms
• evaluation notes:
  • list generated, but due to focus on shipping Firefox 3.5 and previous goal for making Firefox faster, didn't finish the work
  • will focus on these issues next quarter

• [DONE] Make it easier to extend and theme Firefox
  • improve our default theme structure
  • improve APIs in browser services (Places, wallet, tabbrowser?) for add-ons
  • simple add-on structure for site-specific scripting
• evaluation notes:
  • worked with Labs team on Personas (theme) and JetPack (extensions)

• [DONE] Polish user experience
  • identify and prioritize polish bugs and fix all P1s
  • finish UI work that was pushed out of Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.1 (ex: Library, Awesomebar result pages, site-specific function in identity button)
• evaluation notes:
  • calling this goal done, although it wasn't hit 100% of the way
  • identified polish bugs and created tracking system
  • fixed majority of P1 polish issues

• [DONE] Complete Firefox.next plan
  • outline scheduled milestones
  • documentation that clearly scopes feature work and designs
• evaluation notes:
  • done early in the quarter