Firefox/Projects

Active Projects

Description	Leader	Participants	Goal	ETA	Target	Status
Ts Improvements	dietrich	ddahl, rflint, adw	reduce warm and cold startup of Firefox, Fennec	10/23/09	1.9.2/1.9.3/infra	cold ts on windows, dirty profiling scenarios, micro-testing perf, dictionary delay, mimetypes.rdf
Video Controls	Boriss	limi, mano	3.6 done, working on 3.7 bugs	10/23/09 (and ongoing)	1.9.3	Some 3.7 bugs filed, others getting design time in preparation to being filed
Theme and UI Revamp	shorlander	faaborg, limi	update Wiki, line-up of capabilities priorities, steps towards approval.	10/19/09	1.9.3	solid direction for 3.7 and 4.0. in the refinement stage on Mac and Windows. Linux in initial stage.
Per Tab Network Prioritization	zpao	limi	cleanup	2009/10/20	1.9.2	reviews
Preferences UI	faaborg		Refresh and streamline the Firefox preferences window	First round of mockups complete: 10/23	Starting with 3.7	Just getting started
Places UI	faaborg		Investigate changes to the places UI for 3.7 and 4.0, focusing on mixing search + browse operations, and leveraging the content area.	Breaking UI apart into separate bugs: 10/23	Starting with 3.7	Mockups complete, feedback coming in.
Tab Matches In Awesomebar	limi	bmcbride?	Make it possible to switch tabs using the AwesomeBar		1.9.3
Improve Mac installer	limi	community volunteers, for now	Detect when we launch from disk image/downloads folder, offer to move to Apps		1.9.3?
Tab & Menu item animation	boriss	none yet (exploration phase)	Add intuitive, subtle motion to the menu bar including tab tearoff and rearrangement of menu items		1.9.3
Find on Page improvements	boriss	none yet (exploration phase)	Make finding text on a page easier through more intuitive controls & subtle animation		1.9.3	Getting started
Places Async Expiration	mak	mano	Make Places expiration async		1.9.3	Posted feedback request on m.d.a.f. Getting started with code.
Unbreak RSS	cbartley	TBD	RSS preview is difficult to maintain (C++), privileged (and hence a risk), etc. Make it better.	TBD	1.9.3	Initial investigation
Extension Manager API Updates	Mossop	TBD	Improve the usability and extensibility of the add-ons manager APIs. Make it easier to create custom and complex UIs for the add-ons manager.	TBD	1.9.3	Initial prototyping and API designs
Places Query API Redesign	ddahl	TBD	Simple, elegant Places Query API that is focused on 3.7 Places work	TBD	1.9.3	Initial api designs

Inactive Projects (need to finish)

• Accelerated Scrolling
• Multitouch Polish
• Doorhanger notifications
• Eradicating Startup Dialogs
• 404 Error Pages

Prioritized

• System Extension Notification
• Understand why we strand users on point releases
• Always have option to Add Search
• Add Search to Awesomebar
• Rebuild Software Update without browser element
  
• App-wide Database Vacuum
• about:newtab
• Improve Plugin Find and Install
• Visual Affordance for Tear Off Tabs
• Addons Manager Redesign
• Control-Tab
• Update dictionaries
• about:problems
• Automatic Recovery
• about:me (first-pass addon done, uplift approach still open)

Unprioritized

• JetPack Uplift

Additional Projects Ideas (Need more definition)

• Places Schema Redesign
• Areas that need code cleanup or overhaul
• App-wide Database Integrity Check
• Migration Component JS Porting
• Create a Places page thumbnail service
• Crowdsource Performance Data
• Binding for untrusted text in security dialogs

Completed Projects / Archive

• Firefox WinCE (minor stuff still to do)
• Firefox/Projects/Places Vacuum (LANDED 1.9.2)
• Perception of Performance (Investigation, see wiki page for follow up projects)
• Asynchronous Annotation Protocol Handler (LANDED 1.9.1)
• Places Expiration Performance Refactoring (LANDED 1.9.1)
• Bookmark Dialog Focus (LANDED 1.9.1)
• Restore Visible Tabs First (LANDED 1.9.1)
• Privacy Prefpane Refresh (LANDED 1.9.1)
• Clear Recent History by Time Range (COMPLETED WITH NOTES)
• Undo Close Window (LANDED 1.9.1)
• Windows Theme Polish (LANDED 1.9.1)
• Focus Ring Cleanup (LANDED 1.9.1)
• Places DB Creation Scripts (COMPLETED)
• Asynchronous Location Bar (LANDED 1.9.2)
• Form Awesomecomplete (LANDED 1.9.2)
• Focus rewrite (LANDED, NO WIKI PAGE)
• Animation priorities (became two child-sprints: Tab & Menu item animation and Find on Page improvements)
• about:support (LANDED 1.9.2)
• Plugin Update Referrals (LANDED 1.9.2)
• Personas Uplift Exploration (LANDED 1.9.2)
• Reduce Places Views Overhead (LANDED 1.9.2)

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(Mostly) Blank Template for new projects.