Firefox/Goals/2009Q2
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- [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
