Firefox/Planning/2011-09-07

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde 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# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Warp Core
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Actions from Last Week

• Dave Mason to come back with information about jetpack adoption metrics as viewed through AMO
• Michelle to scour mobile "flash fail" feedback to see if it's clustered around a small number of sites

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Add-on SDK

Release (1.0 -> Firefox 5 & 6)

Stabilization (1.1 -> Firefox 7)

Development (1.2 -> Firefox 8)

• development continues apace

Market Insights

Desktop

Chrome

Following last week's Gmail offline webapp for Chrome, Google have added a Google Calendar offline webapp, also exclusively for Chrome.

Google moved Chrome Frame for non-admin access to Stable Channel. This is probably the main use case for Chrome frame.

Tweaks to the Chromium extensions interface show a change from "disable" being the user action, to showing checkboxes of which extensions are "enabled".

Samsung knocked 10% off the price of Chromebooks.

Google showed a narrowing focus, with many projects either moving to monetise or be EOL'd. App Engine's pricing model was criticised, and the following projects were ended: Aardvark, Desktop, Fast Flip, Google Maps API for Flash, Google Pack, Google Web Security, Image Labeler, Notebook, Sidewiki and Subscribed Links.

August Market Share

NetApplications reported browser share for August showing a slight (0.25%) erosion for Firefox globally. Forecasts are that Internet Explorer will be under 50% of browser market by mid 2012 - although given the fragmentation of IE (5 major versions in market by then), it isn't clear what "IE" is apart from a brand. Microsoft [ http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/08/31/internet-explorer-9-reaches-20-usage-share-worldwide-on-windows-7-approaching-30-in-the-us.aspx responded] that IE9 share on Windows 7 is the metric they are concerned about.

Microsoft

Windows 8 behind schedule? In a blog post, Steven Sinofsky indicated several Windows 8 features would not be available for the Windows 8 build to be released at BUILD.

Windows 7 update - easier to update IE9. An update for Windows 7 made it less likely that a user needs to rebook a system after upgrading from IE8 to IE9.

Downstream

The Palemoon fork of Firefox (for Windows only) is tracking rapid release, but indicated it would not issue a 6.0.1 update, referring users instead to SUMO.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• Opera launched an HTML5 app store aimed at TV and home entertainment devices

• Dolphin introduced Dolphin user accounts with version 6.2 of Dolphin HD, which are used for bookmark syncing

• Net Applications puts Safari as the top mobile browser, followed by Opera Mini. Stats Counter reports differently

• Baidu announced the release of an Android-based mobile OS, called Baidu Yi

• Asia-Pacific leads the world in smartphone use, reveals a survey by Google and Ipsos