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== Firefox 3 ==
== Firefox 3 ==
Bit of a slow week last week due to MoCo all hands and travel.
* Plugin management (mwu, carryover from last week)
* Plugin blocklisting (mwu)
* New Downloads Manager UI (sdwilsh, carryover from last week, number of bugfixes)
* New Bookmarking UI with starring and tagging (mano)
Upcoming (close to landing)
* Vista Parental controls
* Post-submit pwmgr prompt (infobar, not modal)
* Unified history/bookmarks search for location bar autocomplete
* Web apps as protocol handlers
Big thanks to MoCo summer interns: Christine Yen, Steve Won, Michael Wu and Shawn Wilsher
* Plugin Management
** Longstanding request/need
** Support disabling/uninstalling all plugins
** Blocklisting of vulnerable plugin versions (top vector of attack against Firefox users)
* Windows/Linux shutdown handling
** Better shutdown handling/experience (single save session/quit dialog)
** Avoids dataloss and/or confusing dialogs on next startup
* Places
** UI prototyping/implementation help
** Fixing core front end bugs
* Protocol handling front end
** Still in progress, but major step forward
* Download manager rewrite
** Backend rewrite to move to SQLite, improve API for extension authors
** Frontend redesign to support ease of use, searching
* SQLite improvements
** Move to current SQLite, performance improvements and bugfixes
** Use our i18n support in place of ICU


== IT ==
== IT ==

Revision as of 17:37, 20 August 2007

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Meeting Details

  • 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 4, 2007)
  • Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
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  • +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
  • +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
  • join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking and backchannel

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

In Attendance

Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.7

TB 3

Gecko 1.9

Firefox 3

Bit of a slow week last week due to MoCo all hands and travel.

  • Plugin management (mwu, carryover from last week)
  • Plugin blocklisting (mwu)
  • New Downloads Manager UI (sdwilsh, carryover from last week, number of bugfixes)
  • New Bookmarking UI with starring and tagging (mano)

Upcoming (close to landing)

  • Vista Parental controls
  • Post-submit pwmgr prompt (infobar, not modal)
  • Unified history/bookmarks search for location bar autocomplete
  • Web apps as protocol handlers

Big thanks to MoCo summer interns: Christine Yen, Steve Won, Michael Wu and Shawn Wilsher

  • Plugin Management
    • Longstanding request/need
    • Support disabling/uninstalling all plugins
    • Blocklisting of vulnerable plugin versions (top vector of attack against Firefox users)
  • Windows/Linux shutdown handling
    • Better shutdown handling/experience (single save session/quit dialog)
    • Avoids dataloss and/or confusing dialogs on next startup
  • Places
    • UI prototyping/implementation help
    • Fixing core front end bugs
  • Protocol handling front end
    • Still in progress, but major step forward
  • Download manager rewrite
    • Backend rewrite to move to SQLite, improve API for extension authors
    • Frontend redesign to support ease of use, searching
  • SQLite improvements
    • Move to current SQLite, performance improvements and bugfixes
    • Use our i18n support in place of ICU

IT

Build

QA

Security

Marketing/PR

  • New Firefox download and first run pages are going live this week.

Community

Mozilla Labs

Developer Relations

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

Other Business