Firefox/Planning/2012-06-27

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Warp Core
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Actions from Last Week

• sheila to confirm where people can find updated/detailed product reqs for basecamp
• kev to report back status on google play access

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Mobile

"Best update in Android app history"

Beta (14)

• 14.0.1 is the Beta now

Aurora (15)

• Tablet UI has started to land/uplift
• Looking to start uplifting more features from Trunk

Nightly (16)

• More text selection improvements
• Landed "Request Desktop" mode
• Reading Mode is enabled
• Detailed control for Clear Private Data
• Helper Apps support landed (and bounced)
• Webapp support has improved

Add-on SDK

Release (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)

Stabilization (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)

Development (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)

Apps

• App Test Days this week!
  • 6/28 - Marketplace - details here
  • 6/29 - Desktop and Android - details here

• Firefox Desktop 15 (Aurora)
  • Landed: Support of native installation and and chromeless launch of apps for Win and Mac OS

• Firefox Desktop 16 (Nightly)
  • Fit and polish for K9o requirements. Down to 5 blockers!!! WOOT!

• Firefox Mobile 16 (Nightly) - in progress
  • Features: Native Install and chromeless window launch
  • Proposed marketplace bundling with Fennec is an open issue. See bug 738545
  • Features landing in nightly - check them out!

• Apps in the Cloud
  • AITC client for desktop landed for FF15
  • AITC client for mobile aimed to start for FF16

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Flash issues continue to represent 1/3 or more of our negative sentiment on Input and 15 or our top 20 SUMO issues.

Market Insights

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• New Android version, 4.1, and new device(s) rumoured for Google I/O
• Android dominates the Chinese smartphone market with 55%, iOS at 12%
• ZTE looking to expand to high-end range and Western markets
• Microsoft showed the Windows Phone 8 platform, its next proposition for smartphones
• Amazon app stores to open to Western European countries
• Mobile payments main factor for growth of NFC applications

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Press

• Firefox for Android gets a major update, may be the best mobile browser yet (hands-on)
  
• Hands-on: Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser
  
• Firefox for Android: All-New and Much, Much Better
  
• Firefox for Android loses beta tag, speeds up mobile web
  
• Firefox For Android Reborn
  
• VIDEO: Firefox for Android changes course, goes native