Firefox/Planning/2012-10-10

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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 (1.10 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Stabilization (1.11 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Development (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Landing plan for Firefox

The core goals is to preserve current development ergonomics and maybe share those with other teams::

• The canonical SDK repository remains on github.
• Code can be contributed via pull requests or patches in bugzilla.
• Changes to SDK modules should not require Firefox builds.


• Weekly drops from the current github integration branch will be dropped into an HG branch, validated, then merged into m-c
• SDK test suite will be integrated into the Mozlla test suite and run on each commit

Feedback Summary

Mobile

Google Play Reviews are very positive for this Release. Feedback solicitation is working as expected, resulting in a significant increase in Input Feedback. Reader Mode and Performance are the biggest wins for us in this release.

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Adobe

• Adobe made an urgent security release for Flash that fixed 25 critical flaws.

Google

• Google announced Google Developers Live Presents, a "series of exclusive programming from Google Developers Live". All the sessions feature the use of newer web technologies behind Chrome Experiments.
• Chrome Canary builds now offer support for AudioContext, which provides low-latency access to live audio from microphone or other audio inputs.
• Google also published a set of standards, libraries and tools to assist Android developers to make "best-in-class" tablet apps.

Microsoft

• Microsoft made a blog post and demo of their proposed Internationalization API for handling formatting of strings, date and time objects.
• Microsoft also issued the first Security Advisory for Adobe Flash on Windows 8.

Opera

• Opera announced that their mobile browsers would now provide a "Device-Stock-UA" HTTP header, and are proposing it as an industry standard.
• Opera Mobile 12.1 was also released this week

Tizen

• The Tizen 2.0 Alpha release was announced, adding a significant number of WebAPIs, HTML5 video subtitles and captions, the W3C screen orientation API, and many others.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• 2012 stats: 38% of phones sold are under $39, average price of phones went up to $143, in 2013 more than 50% of all phones sold will be smart, 9% of all phones in use have dual-SIM support
• Asia reached 1 billion Netizens, of which 794 million will be mobile users by the end of 2012
• US Congressional report recommends away from business with Chinese network equipment manufacturers
• LG rumored to be next Nexus OEM
• Windows Phone 8 device line-up from Nokia and HTC expected to be available soon
• Nokia introduced data compression app in App Store aimed at emerging markets
• Amazon opened Japan as a market for app submissions

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Press

Firefox 16 Launches With Safari-Like Reader Mode On Android, New Developer Tools On Desktop

Firefox 16 Offers New Tools for Web Developers

More HTML5 deemed ready-to-use in Firefox 16

Firefox 16 released with powerful developer tools

Firefox 16 launches with new developer tools, Reader Mode for Android