WeeklyUpdates/2009-11-30

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Firefox

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Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)

• Released Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 on Thursday, Nov 26th in the morning
• if you're working on an add-on that integrates with the new lightweight theme technology, please take note of this late change to the observers/notifications structure
• latest metrics show half of our 400,000+ beta users are running beta 4
• data from these users is helping us ensure a very stable Firefox 3.6 release
• closing on blockers in order to deliver a release candidate build this week
• mozilla-central will remain restricted to 1.9.2 blockers and approved patches only

Firefox Future

• Blair has posted builds that implement tab matches in the awesomebar
• when the mozilla-central tree re-opens, bsmedberg and the E10s team will be landing out of process plugin work
• Vlad has created an Android Project Wiki for those looking to get involved with porting Firefox to Android using the Android NDK
• Rob Strong is looking at updater fixes for Firefox 3.7 and wants input and feedback

Team News

• we're interviewing for internships with the Firefox team - apply today!

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6
  • builds started today
  • planning to go to beta this week, after QA spot checks
  • on track for mid-December ship date

• Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7
  • schedules posted
  • early February release target
  • any feedback on these?

• Firefox 3.0.15 -> 3.5.5 Prompted Major Update (PMU)
  • overall crashes in 3.5.5 are down from 3.5.3 and 3.5.4 thanks to CrashKill
  • some crashes were fixes in our code, others were blocklisted add-ons
  • even more fixes coming in 3.5.6
  • as a result, we'd like to resume pushing users from 3.0.x to 3.5.x
  • planning to go live with a PMU tomorrow morning

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

Five Years of Firefox

General

Events

• Add-on-Con December 2009, Mountain View, CA.  We are sponsoring this event and will have 3 sessions:  Taking Flights with JetPack (Aza), Mobile Firefox Add-on Development (Mark Finkle), Future of Add-on Ecosystem (Justin, Nick, add-on developer community member). There will be an Add-ons workshop on Thursday night 12/10 where we will be working on 3.6 and fennec compatibility.  Please signup for the Pre-Add-on-Con workshop here.
  
• Sunlight Labs Great American Hackathon December 12-13, 2009; Mountain View, CA.  We will be holding a hackathan at Mozilla HQ on Saturday and Sunday 12/12-12/13.  Please signup for the workshop here.
  
• Foundations of Open Media Software January 13 - 15, 2010; Wellington, New Zealand.  Perfect venue to promote open video.  We are currently looking into sponsoring this.
• Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2010 January 20-22, 2010; Madrid Spain.  We are sponsoring this event.
  
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  Working on sponsorship opportunities and Firefox party.  Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
  
• Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2010) June 10, 2010; Toronto, Canada.  We are sponsoring this event.
  

Support

• No updates this week.