Mobile/Fx18

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FN 18: Beautiful Browsing

GA Release PRD to follow, this is just a prelim feature/notable changes tracking page

Helpful Changes

bug 739542 - Disable screen timeout when playing HTML5 video (webm)

Readability 2.0

• Feature Page is here
  • bug 707195 - Text inflation inflates comments on news.ycombinator.com to different sizes (because inflation computed separately for different table cells)
• Licensing of new fonts (Reader Mode as first priority; rest of UI to be investigated)
• Form filling / styling
• Font inflation algorithm tweaks
• Hiding URL bar

Fx Android Product Announcements

• Direct link to the feature page

• Google ToS privacy investigation bug 769149

Full Query

ID	Summary	Priority	Status
695767	Updated es-CL snippets.lang	--	RESOLVED
744792	do 3.6.13 through 3.6.28 -> 11.0 major updates	P2	RESOLVED
774497	[meta] Android product announcements	P1	RESOLVED
788878	Privacy Review for Android product announcements	P1	RESOLVED
789296	[Security Review] Campaign management / product announcements for Firefox for Android	P1	RESOLVED
793053	Implement Android product announcements client service	P1	RESOLVED
793056	Implement Android campaign product announcements opt-out UX	P1	RESOLVED
793936	Implement Campaign Manager for Firefox for Android Product Announcements	P1	RESOLVED
799834	Connect Android campaign product announcements preference to background service	P1	RESOLVED
800692	Notification icon asset for product announcement	--	RESOLVED
801225	Cleanup and restructuring of Android services code to support product announcements feature	--	RESOLVED
806024	Enable Android product announcements client service	P1	RESOLVED
806634	Announcements: record browser launch in the correct place	P1	RESOLVED
807546	Specify Connection: close in fetch requests	--	RESOLVED
812809	Adjust product announcements constants to allow for easier testing	--	VERIFIED
833991	Security Review for Android App Not Responding (ANR) Reporting	--	RESOLVED

16 Total; 0 Open (0%); 15 Resolved (93.75%); 1 Verified (6.25%);

Search Improvements

• Search suggestions opt-in workflow
• Small (one-line) search widget

Full Query

ID	Summary	Priority	Status
586885	show search suggestions when entering text in awesome bar	P3	VERIFIED
773788	Provide client-side urlbar suggestions for top domains	--	RESOLVED

2 Total; 0 Open (0%); 1 Resolved (50%); 1 Verified (50%);

Safe Browsing

• Anti-phishing
• Malicious code prevention

Private Browsing

• Per-Window vs Per-Tab private browsing will determine whether this is included in Fx 18 or not

Full Query

ID	Summary	Priority	Status
463027	[meta] Implement window-based Private Browsing (as opposed to having to switch modes/profiles)	P4	RESOLVED
582244	Implement Private Browsing	P2	RESOLVED

2 Total; 0 Open (0%); 2 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Additional Locale Support

• zh-CN
• zh-TW

Incremental Memory Improvements

• To be detailed

New Updater

Full Query

ID	Summary	Priority	Status
786380	Write new Android service-based updater	--	VERIFIED

1 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 1 Verified (100%);

Top Issues

TRUNK: Follow on fixes from previous releases, patches requiring new strings or string changes, high risk changes we want to consider uplifting

Performance

bug 786502 - Static background on Bungie.net appears to scroll away with the content
bug 787271 - Expose some JNI to js through js-ctypes (this will help to make things faster and more reliable)