Firefox/Planning/2012-07-18

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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

Add-on SDK

Release (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)

Stabilization (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)

Development (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Google

• The development channels for Chrome and ChromeOS now support packaged apps, HTML5 apps that can run outside the browser, are offline by default, have APIs to support multiple windows, and allow embedding of web content.
• Google Chrome won the latest Tom's Hardware Web Browser Grand Prix. Chrome 20, with 19 points, beat out Firefox 13 and Opera 12. This marked the first time in some years that Chrome beat Firefox.

Microsoft

• Microsoft is in serious trouble with EU authorities after it revealed that it shipped tens of millions of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 updated computers without including the required "browser ballot" screen, which allows users to select which web browser they want as default. It turns out one of their users warned them in a support forum shortly after Windows 7 released, but was ignored. Microsoft could be forced to pay 10% of revenues, theoretically up to approximately $8b.
• While Microsoft disabled checking of the Content-Length header in IE9's download tool, they have added it back for IE10.
• IE10's User Agent string will have "Touch" and "ARM" tokens when appropriate

Opera

• Opera created a friendly, easy-to-read homepage for their github repository

Sleipnir

• The Sleipnir web browser has released "App Linker", which seamlessly allows users to send phone numbers, addresses, etc from their desktop browser to their iOS or Android smartphone

WebKit

• WebKit developers are now able to use the W3C's Javascript test harness, meaning that "W3C JavaScript tests can be copied into the WebKit repository with only a single change"
• Adobe made an interesting blog post about some of the CSS blending features they are working on. WebKit builds with the features are now available as well.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Press

• Google goes private in new Firefox
  
• Mozilla creates a more secure Firefox with automatic Google search encryption
  
• Firefox 14 Beta Arrives with an Extra Shot of Security
  
• Firefox 14 unleashed with focus on security