Mobile/ProductPlanning/Notes-2012-11-27

Details

• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Mobile vidyo room
• Tuesday @ 9:00am Pacific
• Roadmap 2012-13 landing page
• Product Planning landing page

Agenda & Minutes

Roadmap launchpad: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap12-13

MozCamp Singapore

• Gestures for oft-used browser functions (back, forward, new tab, close tab)
• Offline browser distribution
• modifying the Android keyboard to include oft-used punctuations and letters (eg '.com')
• voice search
• custom about:home based on locale for oft-used websites
• sharing customisation settings, sounds
• global 'reader mode' setting

Quick Status Update on Key Features for Fx 17, Fx 18 and 19

• Fx 17
  • Any hot items from launch?
    • Why two devices weren't blocked (under investigation)
    • Pings for metrics

• Fx 18
  • Product announcements -> 'yellow status'
  • Timing for new web content font? [awaiting license agreement and approval for cost; can be comfortable taking this up to the 2nd beta in 18 as drop-dead date] -> fonts ready to go, awaiting approval on costs and finalise agreement and will proceed only with Android scope. Beta 3 could possibly be our drop-dead (build next week), but up for discussion. Let's put it in nightly as a start.
  • Search suggestions opt-in -> a go
  • Phishing & malware protection -> some outstanding UI tweaks but shouldn't affect the operation of the feature

• Fx 19
  • Per-Tab private browsing moved to Fx 20
  • Supporting all Android locales moved to Fx 20
  • Reflow on Zoom moved to Fx 20
  • Metrics & Benchmarking wins -> TBD
  • Light-weight themes -> any blockers? looking for performance and profiling tracking; hoping to get something on AMO for a friendly website to install themes
  • ARMv6 expanded support: 600MHz, 512MB, HVGA
    • Tile-by-tile drawing, low-res tiles, mitigating locking seeing on thread (performance optimisation)
  • Fx integration into Google search widget

Review ideas for Fx 20, 21, 22, 23

• Fx 20
  • ARMv6 expanded support: 600MHz, 384MB, QVGA -> assets ready to go to support QVGA, project256
  • Hiding URL bar -> patch may be landed this week
  • Guest mode -> must it link with NextGen sync? no!
  • Multiple profiles -> must it link with NextGen sync? possibly not!
  • about:home customisation (thumbnails)
  • Save for Later - phased?
• Media decoding (H.264): GB & HC -> devices will be purchased

• Fx 21
  • Small (Fx) search widget
  • Large (Fx) search widget
  • Multi-tab search -> prototypes in the early stages
  • First-run UX -> major risk due to Next Gen sync risk
  • Next Gen sync -> major risk!
    • Dependent on Identity
  • Optimisation for TV?
    • Parity with Chrome for v1? what about v2? game consoles?
  • Security enhancements?
    • Integrating with fingerprint reader?
    • Scanning downloads?
    • Plug-ins for other protection software McAffee, Google?

• Fx 22
  • Readibility improvements:
    • Offline mode
    • Different reading layouts (inc Silverfox)
  • Magnifying glass
  • Distributions for bookmarks, themes, logos, preferences, settings

• Fx 23
  • WebRTC

Backlog

• Appia?
• WebRT / Marketplace improvements (to be flushed out with WebRT team)
• iOS
• Shumway? -> still being staffed? add-on first?
• X86 support (dependent on releng) -> can ship as soon as it's ready
• Bundled themes with bookmarks (could this be an add-on)
• Sound effects -> Ian working up a proposal with known Android and B2G sounds