Firefox/Goals/2013Q1

Firefox Desktop

• Australis
  • tabs done on UX
  • customize/panel
    • panel done
    • customize prototype + known scope

• Plugins
  • [MISSED] Remove PFS (consider whether a replacement is necessary for Flash)
  • [MISSED] Make all plugins except Flash click-to-play by default
  • [DONE] Conduct user research experiment to determine feasibility of making Flash click-to-play by default

• Performance
  • Main thread I/O removal
    • Land bug 566746/bug 697377 (form history/autocomplete storage changes)
    • Land followups to bug 699859 (convert all consumers of content prefs to new async API)
    • Land bug 825588 (new Downloads API) and have a concrete plan for switching over all consumers.
  • Sessionstore improvements
    • Land preliminary refactoring of sessionstore collection (bug 708488, bug 768648, bug 759782)
    • Scope out remaining work needed to resolve bug 827852, have pieces of it landed.

• Social
  • Land share panel
  • Land addons-manager integration
  • Polish multi-provider interaction
  • Investigate move to actual SharedWorker to reduce FrameWorker jank

• Security
  • Triage?

Firefox Developer Tools

Scripting and Performance Tools

• Source Editor Update (mihai)

• New Debugger Features (panos, victor, nick)
  • Break on *; DOM, XHR? (victor, panos)
  • eval-in-frame - bug 783499 (mihai)

• Net Panel Prototype / First Cut (victor, mihai)

• Enable Profiler with Enhancements (anton)
  • console api (mihai, anton)
  • gcli support
  • filtered content
  • jump to debugger
  • remotable

• Plan for Performance Work for 2013 (robcee, anton)

• Ship Scratchpad GIST support (nick, anton, robcee)

• Web Console Improvements (mihai)
  • Docked Inspectors - bug 808370 (mihai)

• A plan for JSterm (paul, mihai)

Content Tools

• Style Editor Reboot (harth)
  • Plan a key tool for making CSS changes, and understanding stylesheets
  • Refactor existing code to fix paper-cuts with a view to future work
  • Fix UX problems

• Inspector (paul, dcamp)
  • Make a remotable prototype

• Theme (paul, harth, mike)
  • Complete toolbox re-theme to flatter look

• Stability Enhancements (paul, harth, mike)
  • Make a list of top 10 bugs to fix and fix them

• Command Line (jwalker)
  • Asynchronous types
  • Various command updates
  • Make a remotable prototype

Add-on SDK

• Land the SDK apis in mozilla-central on track for release in Firefox 21.
  • Implementation schedule and policies
• Ensure Builder is compatible with SDK as shipped in Firefox 21
  • Bugs: bug 793932 & bug 793934

Firefox for Android

• Mostly following https://intranet.mozilla.org/2013Q1Goals#Firefox_Mobile
• UI polish work: Holo-ish rework based on UX designs
• UI responsiveness work
  • Overdraw tool for Android shows a lot of "red" in Firefox. We want to reduce the "red" and move into "blue" or better.
• Startup and pageload speed improvements
  • Add some new talos tests
  • We need to recover our "regressions" and find more improvements

Firefox for Metro

• Create a timeline for release
• Establish feature set through user stories
• Move code to m-c and get Nightlies
• TDB: State of the app by end of Q1 (will it be aurora or beta?)