Firefox2/StatusMeetings/2006-02-28

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Agenda

1. Alpha 1 Status
2. Firefox 2 Feature Status Roundtable
3. Any other business

Alpha 1 Status

Features

• Places infrastructure (performance, stability, toolbar drag & drop)
• Undo Close Tab
• Tab Overflow
• Extension Blacklisting
• Extension Dependencies
• Search Plugin Format Changeover (with sherlock import)
• Spell-As-You-Type (english only)
• Instrumentation Infrastructure
• RSS parser
• RSS content detection (?)

Blockers

• version number / branding
  • currently set at 1.5, should it be 2.0a1?
• any others?

Release

• should we start the countdown?

Status Updates

Places

update from ben

Brett: "Performance is good, no known data corruption issues."

Tabbed Browsing

update from mconnor

Extension Manager Enhancements

• Extension Dependencies - phase 1 landed - no regressions so far
• Extension Blacklisting - patch ready for review last Friday
• Extension Locales - started
• Extension UI - mockups and proof of concept started

Installer

• Windows Installer - nothing new other than work on this will start again this week
• Branding and Locale installer customization - nothing new

Search Engine UI

• Back end work complete
• Updated patch today or tomorrow - needs review from mconnor
  • Addressed ben's SR comments
• Code to remain in /browser per discussion on dev.apps.firefox
• Re-factoring of the Sherlock parsing code to be completed seperately if time permits (low priority)

Visual/UI Refresh

• requirements for the visual refresh are on the wiki
  • will be creating a new space for discussion of this theme (dev.apps.firefox.newtheme) and trying to figure out some place to provide hosting for mockups and images
• met with ben and jhughes yesterday to discuss changes to the default chrome for the browser window, the outcome of which was posted to dev.apps.firefox

Platform Uplift

• SVG textPath needs to get an answer and attention in the next 2 weeks, thus I make a commitment here that I will produce a landing scenario for them by March 10.

• no new status on UTF-16 XPCOM I/O fixes.

• schedule for platform uplift deadlines no longer clear due to schedule strategy shift; will try to build something new there for next week.

• need to produce a plan for tracking 1.8.1 approval queues and setting expectations there appropriately.

Inline Spell Check

Waiting for clarification on licensing.

Instrumentation / Exit Surveys

update from bryner

Session Saver

update from autonome

Branding & Update Systems

• nothing new here

RSS

update from ben

Offline mode / better use of cache

update from darin

Anti-Phishing

• fritz, darin, neils, mmc and brakowski meeting this afternoon to talk about ways of bundling/integrating Google phishing protector
• also investigating heuristic-based approaches and UI rendering for warnings about phishing

EULA

• nothing new here

Performance

• schrep's out of town, but is still planning to kick off a meeting on collecting better performance data on daily builds to continually monitor this issue