Firefox/Projects

Description	Leader	Goal	ETA	Status
Startup Time Improvements	Dietrich	Reduce warm and cold startup of Firefox, Fennec		IN FLIGHT
I/O Reduction	sdwilsh	> 50% reduction of main thread I/O		MISSED. 42 - 43% of the IO has been removed from mozilla-central. Up to 23.4% is real close. See this table for more details
Out-Of-Process Plugins		Ship out of process plugins and associated UI pieces to Windows users		Lorentz string work complete, 3.6.3plugin1build2 due this week.
Firefox/Projects/E10S Scope Investigation	dolske	Document scope of work for process separation in Firefox & port one feature as an experiment		starting to map out code issues, have first pass of pwmgr patch done.
New Theme	shorlander, gavin	Implement alpha quality Windows implementation of refactored browser.js & new theme for Windows on trunk or as XPI		IN FLIGHT
Weave	zpao	Improve Weave extension & prepare for integration	Ongoing	TAKING OFF
Addons Manager UI Redesign	Boriss	Design and implement unified web services & customization interface on trunk	TBD	Fixing bugs, getting final graphics together
Extension Manager API Rewrite	Mossop	The Extension Manager has been extended repeatedly to add new features. There is now large scope for cleanups and improvements with refactoring the core code and APIs as well as integrating the other add-on types into a unified API that the frontend can use to display the UI. Project lead: Mossop Project members: Boriss, Unfocused Potential reviewers: sdwilsh, bsmedberg, robstrong QA contacts: hskupin (lead), tchung	April	Running performance testing, looks like a minor loss but not unexpected. Going to be getting ready for reviews this week
Debug console for web pages	robc	Implement alpha quality integrated developer tool set on trunk		Fx4b5 includes filtering and object inspection
Web page inspector	robc	Implement alpha quality integrated developer tool set on trunk	Late March	Moved to Firefox.next
Multitouch	felipe	Bring multitouch support to the web		Working on user experience features and moving ahead with experimental Events API support
Jetpack on Trunk	adw	Ensure that Jetpack extensions can be developed for production use on trunk Firefox.		IN FLIGHT In development for the 0.7 release.
Resource Packages	vlad, limi (until spec is good enough)	Backwards compatible way of serving up multiple resources in a streamable file	Proposal finalized.	Next step: Build it!
Home Tab and App Tabs	faaborg	Investigate a full window, client side, browse-based UI to serve as the user's home on the Web, and the ability to create chromeless app tabs.	First round of mockups complete: 10/23	Just getting started
Tab Matches In Awesomebar	Unfocused	Make it possible to switch tabs using the AwesomeBar	March 2009	Landed and backed out due to test failures. Re-landing again very soon.
Places Query API Redesign	ddahl	Simple, elegant Places Query API that is focused on 3.7 Places work	TBD	Patches up and have review + for the Jetpack implementation. bug 522572 (Sync impl.) / Async in progress as well bug 534983, Filed bug 543888 to craft in a skeleton a more comprehensive API for the async patch
Async Places containers	adw	Perf: non-blocking Places operations	TBD	STALLED, GOING DOWN, PEOPLE SCREAMING
Action based on update xml after app update	rs	Perform action after update based on update xml attribute.	Client side 03/10, AUS 04/10	IN FLIGHT
Simplify Update UI size for billboard and l10n	rs	Simplify verification of the billboard for all locales and all platforms and make the UI look *better*.	03/11/10 (on trunk) 3/31/10 (1.9.1 and 1.9.2)	LANDED (on trunk)
Improve Download Manager + MIME type defaults	limi	Move download manager to panel, coordinated with new theme, improve default behaviors.		ON RUNWAY: Publishing blog post this week
Full Text Search and Awesomebar	adw	Improve performance of the awesomebar by using full text search.		TAKING OFF
IndexedDB	sdwilsh	Implement the W3C IndexedDB specification.		IN FLIGHT. Work is underway (only on the async API at this time).

Inactive Projects (need to finish)

Description	Leader	Participants	Goal	ETA	Target	Status
Test Pilot	jinghua		Add Test Pilot check-box (opt-in) in Firefox installer.	Test Pilot 1.0 release in mid Q2, server upgrade in mid Q2	Starting with 3.7	1.0 beta will be released by March, feedback coming in.
Connect	dmills (for now)		Design and implement chrome to sign-in/out of sites, as well as manage accounts and do one-click registration.	TBD	TBD	See bug 571409
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.
Doorhanger notifications	dolske	faaborg (UI), ashughes (QA)	get'r'dun	As early in 3.7 as possible	TBD
Binding for untrusted text in security dialogs	Unfocused	Jesse	Provide a common way for security dialogs to include untrusted text without compromising the rest of the dialog	TBD	1.9.3	Gathering info, planning
Personal Identity	ragavan (lead) faaborg (Firefox)	thunder, aza, messina	Explore integrating personal identity management into Firefox
Herdict	atul (lead) boriss (Firefox)	faaborg	Explore integrating the functionality of Herdict with Firefox's network error page.
Print preview in a separate window	rflint		Remove the fragile XBL binding and create a separate XUL document		1.9.3

• Accelerated Scrolling
• Multitouch Polish
• Eradicating Startup Dialogs
• 404 Error Pages
• Unbreak RSS

Prioritized

• Improve Mac installer
• System Extension Notification
• Understand why we strand users on point releases
• Always have option to Add Search
• Add Search to Awesomebar
• App-wide Database Vacuum
• about:newtab
• Improve Plugin Find and Install
• Visual Affordance for Tear Off Tabs
• Control-Tab
• Update dictionaries
• about:problems
• Automatic Recovery
• about:me (first-pass addon done, uplift approach still open)
• Video Controls
• Tab & Menu item animation
• Find on Page improvements

Unprioritized

• JetPack Uplift

Additional Projects Ideas (Need more definition)

• Areas that need code cleanup or overhaul
• App-wide Database Integrity Check
• Create a Places page thumbnail service
• Crowdsource Performance Data
• Migration Component JS Porting
• Places Schema Redesign
• View Source in Tab

Completed Projects / Archive

• Places Async Expiration (LANDED 1.9.3)
• 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)
• Per Tab Network Prioritization (LANDED 1.9.2)

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