Firefox/Planning/2012-08-01

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

• 14.0.2 respin for Firefox Android only is underway due to high level of crashes on JB bug 769893
• 15.0b3 is built and handed off to QA for testing
• 14.0.1 Post-mortem notes from yesterday
• 10.5 EOL schedule: warning will be given sometime between the next two merges (8/28, 10/9) and then a "no longer supported" notification on Firefox 17's release (11/20)

Firefox Mobile

Release (14)

• Fx14.0.2 is being spun up for bug 769893

Beta (15)

• Uplifts are trailing off (\o/)

Aurora (16)

• More testing of ARMv6 builds. Looking for stability and limits.
• Might be unblocking Flash on some tegra2 phones

Add-on SDK

Release (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)

Stabilization (1.9 -> Firefox 15, 16)

Development (1.10 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Landing progress:

• loader!

Feedback Summary

Desktop

• Flash repainting is broken/tearing while scrolling bug 778646 -- Generally Flash is still an issue.
• A few updates on issues from last week:
  • Crashiness is still a major thing
  • Netflix on Mac was determined to be a Silverlight issue
  • Bitdefender crashes seem to be better.
  • We're seeing malware sneak into the top 50 -- which is a sign that issues are dying down.

UX & User Research

UX Design

• [desktop]
  • [Australis] - continued customization view exploration on drag/drop, afforadances, and animations - see it here in the design prototype (Zhensuo, bwinton)
  • [dev tools] (Brian Dils)
    • revisions to the Inspector UX
    • keyboard shortcuts for Dev Tools
    • worked on Dev Tools UX framework
  • [Social API] (Boriss)
    • UX reviews on current completed, more bugs to be filed this week around style tweaks and behavior problems apparent once landed in aurora
    • Activation patch landed on bug 764869 - next stage is specific design proposal for activation screen for specific partner
    • Aurora uplift this week - will be soliciting, compiling, responding to first (internal) user feedback
    • Will be working with devs to make sure "flyover" content panels for specific partner feel and look as intended
  • [hometab/newtab] Restarting work with research review and conceptual sketches (Boriss)
  • [stub installer] Continuing to support development - WIP build coming very soon (madhava, shorlander)

• [metro] (yuan)
  • Went through a major iteration on main layout for better control mapping. New mockups are coming.
  • Designing and testing animated tab indicator options
  • Pdf.js is supported on Metro!! Performance of content sizing is improved.
  • Keyboard shortcuts for basic operations are getting implemented. Looking into cases that need keyboard customization, e.g. awesomescreen.

• [sync/identity] scoping new work and creating slightly revised wireframes; ongoing identity user-research (zhenshuo)

• [android] (ibarlow)
  • reading mode/list
    • - styling tweaks to Reader Mode (heads up - we might not be able to use Open Sans as our font, due to licensing restrictions. Verifying this, and also pushing to see if we can license other fonts instead)
    • bug 766942 - Reader Mode toolbar tweaks
    • bug 771380 - large gap btwn reader mode and lock, which turned into removing favicons from the URL bar
    • looking into font licensing so we can use a great reading font
    • Continue exploring Reading List enhancements
  • user retention
    • bug 774479 - Google Play review solicitation - basic infrastructure built
    • C2DM
  • general
    • working on refining our font inflation algorithm bug 777089 (this is actually very interesting!)
    • bug 686528 - about:home tweaks
    • Trying to hire some production help

• [other/future]
  • Ideation session based on Brian Groudan's "saving for later" user-research; some raw results here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h6iy8bbkb43d3g3/Save%20for%20later%20Ideation.pdf
  • addon version of the bookmarks prototype (uses your bookmarks) https://github.com/cleercode/bookmarks/downloads
  • working on defining our Firefox Design Values -- more on this soon.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

• Welcome Sam Mott! He will be working on Product Marketing for Fennec
• The first Tiger Team campaign launched last week - PR outreach celebrating Firefox hitting 3 Billion add-on downloads, Mark has that review below
• Our project to optimize Downloads - a key product initiative - reached a large milestone this week with the switch to CDNs
• Firefox 15/16 launch comms planning happening this week

Press

Mozilla Firefox Add-ons hit 3 billion downloads

Infographic: Firefox Add-On Downloads Top 3 Billion

Silent update speeds Firefox 14 uptake

Mozilla Looks for Start-up Cross Pollination with New Berlin Office

Mozilla Will Nearly Double SF Office, Add 125 People In Early 2013

Questions, Comments, FYI

• FYI: Jaclyn will be transitioning PMM Fennec role to Sam. Thanks for everything all!
• FYI: Rating/Feedback solicitation plans for Fennec