Firefox/Planning/2013-10-23

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 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

Firefox Desktop

Current Releases

• Blocking Java by default was turned on last Friday and was disabled against this morning because of some important bank websites that didn't work properly.

Firefox Mobile

Beta (153)

Fx25 is pretty darn amazing (4.4 stars, Just under 2.5 crashes per 100 ADU)

• [ON TRACK] API: Web Audio
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Settings UI clean-up excluding search provider management
• [ON TRACK] Guest browsing
• [ON TRACK] Page Actions
• [ON TRACK] SkiaGL improvement
• [ON TRACK] Mixed content
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Ukrainian (ua-UK)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Irish (ga-IE)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Romanian (ro-RO)
• [ON TRACK] Setting wallpaper bug 886996
• [ON TRACK] Developer Tools: Remote Debugging <= exposes an existing pref to let dev use the remote js debugger

Aurora (54)

• [ON TRACK] AMO discoverability
• [ON TRACK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for selected locales <= we are working to unblock by landing bug 923795 - Add condition to MozParam to detect top 2 (or N) position
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign <= we are working on bug 918007
• [ON TRACK] search provider management in settings menu
• [ON TRACK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [AT RISK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th)
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Developer Tools: Remote Debugging, continued <=with html/css inspection support

Nightly (154)

These will stick

• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Hindi (hi-IN)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)

Here are some notable landings, we will group into themes

• • bug 922338 - Update phishing-protection page in infoURL pref across Firefox products
  • Usability Fit and Finish: Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296 - (FaviconRevamp) and Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475 - Android updater notification should provide more information like progress
  • Progress on ANR effort: bug 909974, bug 926574
  • Progress on GeckoView: bug 927451
  • Make marketplace more discoverable in about apps:
  • Awesomescreen: bug 921265
  • Geckoview prototype for Android 2.3 => 4.2
  • IDE support

These were our initial targets but we'll need to defer

• [PROPOSED] Ability for add-ons to customize sound effects to browser actions <- will be bumped off if we can have some reader / reading list improvements and land some 'save for later' hooks
• [PROPOSED] Directional game console navigation
• [PROPOSED] Set Top Box optimization

Developer Tools

( no audible due to an appt. )

• quiet week for outbound after the recent flurry of posts
• App Manager grew a manifest editor! screenshot here.
• lots of UI polish:
  • color swatches for css in the inspector
  • hiding extraneous properties in the netmonitor's JSON view
  • the debugger layout is vertical when side-docked
  • working towards a lofty goal of switching to Codemirror instead of Orion for 27

Questions, Comments, FYI

• (lmandel) "Official" guidelines around exposing things to the web. (i.e. How to create new Web APIs.) Andrew Overholt can answer any of your questions.