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+''Will have built a shiny new version of this page that lives over here: '''[[Firefox/Features]]'''!  The old version of this page is now archived over here: [[Firefox/Projects/Archives|Archived version]].''
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-| width="25%" | '''Description'''
-| '''Leader'''
-| '''Participants'''
-| '''Goal'''
-| '''ETA'''
-| '''Target'''
-| '''Status'''
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/WindowsCE|Firefox WinCE]]
-| vlad
-| dolske, rstrong
-| finalize
-| 21 Sep 2009
-| 1.9.2
-| doneish -- final package delivered to nvidia, waiting on QA results)
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Startup Time Improvements|Ts Improvements]]
-| dietrich
-| ddahl, rflint, adw
-| reduce warm and cold startup of Firefox, Fennec
-| 09/25/09
-| 1.9.2
-| windows timing and analysis, getService consolidation, stat and syscall removal, more dirty profiling
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Network Error Pages|404 Error Pages]]
-| cbartley
-| Boriss, johnath
-| Override server-supplied 404 error pages in certain cases to provide tools we think will be more useful to the user.
-| 2 Oct 2009
-| 1.9.3
-| Places C++ code has been rewritten in JavaScript.  Still some L10N issues and general touch up to do.
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Video Controls|Video Controls]]
-| Boriss
-| limi, mano
-| Fullscreen patch has landed thanks to dao (yay!), getting UI &amp; code reviews. Other bugs finished are (), in progress are ()
-| 02/10/09
-| 1.9.3
-| Solid direction for 3.6 (finishing remaining bugs) and 3.7 (starting work)
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Windows Theme Revamp|Update Default Theme]]
-| shorlander
-| faaborg, limi
-| finalized mac concepts, initial linux concepts of proposed ideas, line-up of capabilities priorities, steps towards approval.
-| 09/25/09
-| 1.9.3
-| solid direction for 3.7 and 4.0
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Personas Uplift Exploration|Personas Uplift Exploration]]
-| Dao
-| Mossop
-| include support for lightweight themes in Firefox 3.6
-| 09/21/09
-| 1.9.2
-| Large chunks have landed, {{bug|511771}} is awaiting vlad's SR
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Animation priorities|Animation priorities]] (tear-off, find, movement of menu items)
-| Boriss
-| shorlander
-| "Next steps" document outlining what will be needed to move forward on implementation
-| 09/28/09
-| future (possibly about to be deleted in favor of two child-sprints: [[Firefox/Projects/Tab_animation|Tab & Menu item animation]] and [[Firefox/Projects/Find_on_Page|Find on Page improvements]])
-| Have mockups & interaction flows, but nothing yet implemented
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Plugin Update Referrals|Plugin Update Referrals]]
-| Mossop
-| beltzner, johnath, morgamic, lmesa, alix, blizzard, Unfocused
-| Firefox checks for outdated plugins and takes you to a page on mozilla.com to get updated plugins.
-| 09/28/2009
-| 1.9.2
-| Patch is waiting for review, strings have landed
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Per Tab Network Prioritization|Per Tab Network Prioritization]]
-| zpao
-| limi
-| Get reviews, write tests (not in that order)
-| 2009/09/30 (for next step)
-| 1.9.2
-| getting people to review it, writing tests...
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Places Vacuum|Places Vacuum]]
-| mak
-| sdwilsh
-| Fragmented databases are known to cause performance problems. Try a Places implementation before investigating an app-wide vacuum.
-| 03/09/2009
-| 1.9.2
-| Landed on trunk and 1.9.2, new tests landing.
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Places UI|Places UI]]
-| faaborg
-| <br>
-| Investigate changes to the places UI for 3.7 and 4.0, focusing on mixing search + browse operations, and leveraging the content area.
-| 3.7 mockups done by 9/25, all mockups done by 10/2
-| the future
-| Creating mockups based on work week meetings.
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Reduce Places Views Overhead|Reduce Places Views Overhead]]
-| Mano
-| mak
-| <br>
-| 20/09/2009
-| 1.9.2
-| Landed on trunk.
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/about:support|about:support]]
-| cbartley
-| TBD
-| Create an in-content about:support page that support can use to help users with problems.
-| 25 Sept 2009
-| 1.9.2
-| Landed on mozilla-central and 1.9.2.
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Tab_Matches_in_Awesomebar|Tab Matches In Awesomebar]]<br><br>
-| limi<br>
-| dietrich/marco?<br>
-| Make it possible to switch tabs using the AwesomeBar<br>
-| <br>
-| 1.9.3<br>
-| Next up: blog post<br>
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Improve Mac installer|Improve Mac installer]]
-| limi
-| community volunteers, for now
-| Detect when we launch from disk image/downloads folder, offer to move to Apps
-| <br>
-| 1.9.3?
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Tab_animation|Tab & Menu item animation]]<br><br>
-| boriss<br>
-| none yet (shorlander?)<br>
-| Add intuitive, subtle motion to the menu bar including tab tearoff and rearrangement of menu items<br>
-| <br>
-| 1.9.3<br>
-| <br>
-|-
-| [[Firefox/Projects/Find_on_Page|Find on Page improvements]]<br><br>
-| boriss<br>
-| none yet (zpao? shorlander?)<br>
-| Make finding text on a page easier through more intuitive controls & subtle animation<br>
-| <br>
-| 1.9.3<br>
-| Getting started<br>
-|}
-= Inactive Projects (need to finish)  =
+[[Category:Firefox Projects]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/AcceleratedScrolling|Accelerated Scrolling]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Multitouch Polish|Multitouch Polish]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Doorhanger notifications|Doorhanger notifications]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Eradicate Startup Dialogs|Eradicating Startup Dialogs]]
-== Prioritized  ==
-*[[Firefox/Projects/System Extension Notification|System Extension Notification]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/StrandedUsers|Understand why we strand users on point releases]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Always have option to Add Search|Always have option to Add Search]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Add Search to Awesomebar|Add Search to Awesomebar]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Rebuild Software Update without browser element|Rebuild Software Update without browser element]][[Firefox/Projects/Places UI Overhaul Exploration|<br>]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/App-wide Database Vacuum|App-wide Database Vacuum]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Unbreak RSS|Unbreak RSS]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/About:newtab|about:newtab]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Improve Plugin Find and Install|Improve Plugin Find and Install]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Visual Affordance for Tear Off Tabs|Visual Affordance for Tear Off Tabs]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Extension Manager API|Extension Manager API Updates]]
-*[[Extension Manager:UI Update|Addons Manager Redesign]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Control Tab|Control-Tab]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Update hunspell|Update dictionaries]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/about:problems|about:problems]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Automatic Recovery|Automatic Recovery]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/about:me|about:me (first-pass addon done, uplift approach still open)]]
-== Unprioritized  ==
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Jetpack Uplift Exploration|JetPack Uplift]]
-= Additional Projects Ideas (Need more definition)  =
-*[[Firefox/Projects/ExperimentalPlacesSchema|Places Schema Redesign]]
-*[[Firefox/Cleanup|Areas that need code cleanup or overhaul]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/App-wide Database Integrity Check|App-wide Database Integrity Check]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Migration Component JS Porting|Migration Component JS Porting]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Rewrite Places SQL Query Builder|Rewrite Places SQL Query Builder]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Create a Places page thumbnail service|Create a Places page thumbnail service]]
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Crowdsource Performance Data|Crowdsource Performance Data]]
-= Completed Projects / Archive  =
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Perception of Performance|Perception of Performance]] (Investigation, see wiki page for follow up projects)
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Async Annotation Protocol Handler|Asynchronous Annotation Protocol Handler]] (LANDED 1.9.1)
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Places Expiration Performance Refactoring|Places Expiration Performance Refactoring]] (LANDED 1.9.1)
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Bookmark Dialog Focus|Bookmark Dialog Focus]] (LANDED 1.9.1)
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Restore Visible Tabs First|Restore Visible Tabs First]] (LANDED 1.9.1)
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Privacy Prefpane Refresh|Privacy Prefpane Refresh]] (LANDED 1.9.1)
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Clear Recent History by Time Range|Clear Recent History by Time Range]] (COMPLETED WITH NOTES)
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Undo Close Window|Undo Close Window]] (LANDED 1.9.1)
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Windows Theme Polish|Windows Theme Polish]] (LANDED 1.9.1)
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Focus Ring Cleanup|Focus Ring Cleanup]] (LANDED 1.9.1)
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Places DB Creation Scripts|Places DB Creation Scripts]] (COMPLETED)
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Asynchronous Location Bar|Asynchronous Location Bar]] (LANDED 1.9.2)
-*[[Firefox/Projects/Awesomeformcomplete|Form Awesomecomplete]] (LANDED 1.9.2)
-*Focus rewrite (LANDED, NO WIKI PAGE)
-= Template  =
-(Mostly) [[Firefox/Projects/Template|Blank Template]] for new projects.