Mobile/Projects

This page is a clearinghouse of projects related to the Firefox Mobile browser (Fennec). Some of these projects may be picked for a particular release and be copied to a planning page.

Each active project should have a details page created so we can track progress. Here is a blank-ish template. Some projects might start with conceptual design, others might start with code prototypes.

Template

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Template

Active Projects

Description	Bug	People	Details
Form autofill (autocomplete)	bug 466770	vingtetun, mfinkle	details
Orientation detection	bug 541015	mfinkle	details
Session restore	bug 541421	mfinkle, stechz	details
Use faststart on Maemo	bug	crowder	<link>
Plan for context menus (panels)	bug	madhava	<link>
Page interactions (cursor mode)	bug	madhava	<link>
Touch friendly about:config	bug 540009	vingtetun	<link>
Gesture support	bug	fabrice	<link>
Implement touch events	bug 544614	mfinkle, stechz	<link>
Add network and battery indicators to UI			details
Click disambiguation			details
Site specific preferences	bug 456077	vingtetun, madhava	details
Integrate Personas	bug	madhava	details
Integrate Jetpack	bug	fabrice	details
Scroll indicators for content and chrome	bug 515166 bug 461843	vingtentun, fabrice	details
Scroll underlying browser when canvas tiles are panned	bug 511987 bug 500700 bug 514623 bug 479862	stechz, vingtetun	details
Determine font sizes for WinMo	bug	mfinkle, blassey	details
Figure out WinMo Menubar	bug	madhava, blassey	details
Automatically check for add-on updates	bug	mfinkle, madhava	details
Smarter Tabs	bug	janD	details
<description>	bug	name1, name2	<link>

Additional Ideas and Designs

Performance

• Startup time
• JIT for some chrome UI (details)
• Pageload
• Improved disk caching

User Experience

• UI interactivity
• Page/Content interactivity (cursor mode)
• Form autofill
• Extend form helper support (email & url)
• Context menus
• Better link clicking
• Panning long pages (details)
• Find in page
• Mobile-appropriate session restore
• Site specific data
• View history

System Integration

• Portrait mode on Maemo
• Default browser on Maemo
• Camera
• Utilize js-ctypes for device APIs

Appearance & Layout

• More UI space for add-ons
• In-content theme
• Update the awesomebar panel (mockup)

More

• Full list UX Projects for the Future