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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
- +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
- +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.