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=== Firefox Mobile  ===
=== Firefox Mobile  ===
====Current Releases====
====Current Releases====
Interesting times for flash in the Kit Kat Mobile world: {{Bug|935676}} - Flash doesn't work on 4.4 KitKat
Interesting times for flash in the mobile world: {{Bug|935676}} - Flash doesn't work on 4.4 KitKat


====Beta ({{BETA_VERSION}})====
====Beta ({{BETA_VERSION}})====
[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap#Firefox_26:_.28Beta.29 Features]
[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap#Firefox_26:_.28Beta.29 Features]
* Looking good: just under 3 crashes per 100 adu
* Sounds like Beta 4 is under test and will be signed off on here, in a bit
* Regression we need to take care of {{Bug|935604}} - Regression: Graphical corruption shown on screen during page load
* The kit kat krasher should have made it into beta 2 {{Bug|934514}} - Fennec crashes on KitKat


====Aurora ({{AURORA_VERSION}})====
====Aurora ({{AURORA_VERSION}})====
[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap#Firefox_27:_.28Aurora.29 Features]
* The major uplift story here is: WebRTC fixes {{bug|932816}}, {{bug|933284}} and other WIP {{bug| 932692}}, {{bug|933705}}
* Also, mem usage improvements {{bug|931843}} <= I need to quantify
====Nightly ({{CENTRAL_VERSION}})====
====Nightly ({{CENTRAL_VERSION}})====
* {{mok}} {{Bug|768667}} - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
* {{mok}} {{Bug|852608}} - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile ignores <link rel="search">
* {{mok}} {{bug|875750}} - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/Dynamic snippets add-on | Dynamic snippets add-on]]
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/Quickshare:_Multiple_quickshare_buttons| Multiple Quickshare Buttons]]
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/Quickshare:_Contexts| Quickshare Contexts]]
* {{mprop}} Tab Streaming via WebRTC (we need to flesh out sec issues and front end work) {{Bug|742832}}, {{Bug|923225}}
* {{mprop}} [[Mobile/Projects/Localization | Added locale: Greek (el)]]
* {{mprop}} [[Mobile/Projects/Localization | Added locale: Punjabi (pa-IN)]]
* {{mprop}} Developer improvements: Geckoview support for 2.3 -> 4.3 <== nightly only


=== Developer Tools ===
=== Developer Tools ===
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== Feedback Summary  ==
== Feedback Summary  ==
=== Desktop ===
=== Desktop ===
* Feedback around Firefox "pausing" unless the mouse is moved. So things like Netflix stops while you're watching. Started spiking ~ 11/9. I think this is getting [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=896896%2C933733%2C&list_id=8552612 fixed in Fx25.0.1]
=== Mobile ===
=== Mobile ===


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== Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team ==
== Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team ==
=== Mobile ===
* Motorola launched a entry-level device, the Moto G, which features a 4.5 inch, 720 p display, with 1 GB of Ram and a 1.2 Qualcomm CPU. The phone runs on Jelly Bean and will be upgradable to KitKat at the beginning of 2014. With a price of $179, it is available in Brazil and a few parts of Europe, and it will launch in more countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia in the next few weeks.
* At the Samsung Developer Conference, first of its kind, there was one Tizen session called “The Tizen Web Platform”, presented in collaboration with Intel. You can find the slide deck [http://www.tizenexperts.com/2013/11/sdc13-session-slides/ here]. A big focus of the conference was the Samsung Smart TV platform and multi - screen experiences, as well as and the secure Android layer called Knox.
* Ericsson released new stats about the mobile industry. Total mobile subscriptions are expected to triple and reach 9.3 billion by 2019, with 60% of them for smartphones. In 2019, almost everybody in the developed world will own a smartphone, but only half of the users in Africa and the Middle East will do the same. Current mobile subscriptions are 6.6 billion, but mobile subscribers are 4.5 billion, with many people having more SIM cards. In terms of content, video will represent 50% of mobile data traffic by 2019. More numbers in the [http://www.ericsson.com/res/docs/2013/ericsson-mobility-report-november-2013.pdf Ericsson Mobility Report].
* CyanogenMod published an installer on the Google Play Store which, with the help of desktop software, unlocks the boot loader, roots the device and flashes the company’s launcher. The app is available to a [http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/CyanogenMod_Installer#Supported_Devices list] of Samsung, Nexus and HTC devices.


== Marketing, Press &amp; Public Reaction  ==
== Marketing, Press &amp; Public Reaction  ==
* Australis onboarding work week this week!


== Questions, Comments, FYI ==
== Questions, Comments, FYI ==


== Actions this week ==
== Actions this week ==
* Laura to get us more information the plans and test plans for the Australis first run
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