Mobile

Goals

The overall goals for Mobile Firefox are:

• provide Mozilla’s standards-based open-source browser engine, optimized for mobile, that can be embedded by device manufacturers and others;
• a full-featured mobile browser including support for XUL-based add-ons, delivering on Firefox’s key principles of ease-of-use, security and accessibility;
• grow the Mozilla community in the mobile space;
• provide tools and documentation to help developers develop, debug and deploy web applications;
• do all of this work in the shared Mozilla source repositories so all platforms, desktop and mobile benefit each other

For more background on our goals please see these blog posts.

Still have questions? See our FAQ for Mobile. If you're interested in what we'll be working on over the next 6 months or so, please see the Roadmap.

Weekly Meetings

There will be a meeting each week to discuss the general status of Mobile. Please use #mobile, dev-platforms-mobile@mozilla.org or mozilla.dev.platforms.mobile for communication

Meeting Details:

• Monday @ 9:00AM PST
• +1 650-903-0800 (US/Intl) x91 conf# 314
• +1 800 707 2533 (US) pin 369 conf# 314
• #mobile for backchannel
• Agenda and notes can be found here

Embedding for Mobile

One of the two major goals for our mobile work is to enable embedding of the Mozilla core technology is various mobile phones and other products with any of: constrained system resources, significant mobile user experiences and/or telephony.

Fennec

"Fennec" is the code name of the effort to build a mobile version of Firefox.

[[Mobile/Fennec|Fennec project page]

To Do's

There are several big ticket issues to be resolved for this project. For the most part they can be broken into these categories.

• Performance/Memory issues
  • Startup optimization
  • XUL optimization
  • Memory optimization
• User Experience and UI
• Ports, build instructions, platform support
• Features
• Patches
• Profiling

Task List

Below are the current top prioritized tasks.

Bugs

Performance

Mobile/MemoryReduction

Bug	Priority	Status	Owner	Notes
Slow full page zooming on wikipedia, Linux/ARM
Too much memory used by Thebes Images to display 4.5Mb Image
Enable HTTP pipelining by default
compile options for improved minimo speed on arm

Current blocking 1.9+ performance issues

Current mobile bugs

Features

This is the first draft of a feature list.

UI

• User experience

Supported Platforms

We have the stated goal of supporting Windows Mobile and Linux devices. Support for other Platforms may be added in the future. We will also support several embedders who are using mozilla technology, and will keep track of that here

Testing

Our first test page, post interesting urls here.

Bug	Priority	Status	Owner	Notes
Create UI for mapping keys to actions				detect key press and allow selection of action for key, map gestures to actions
Switch orientation				portrait/landscape, placement of toolbar when changing orientation
Local user content adaptation				Create extension where the user in desktop Firefox a la Firebug can "re-design" their favorite websites for mobile, e.g. you can remove or rearrange certain DIVs or FRAMEs. You should also be able to decide whether you want them stacked, positioned in different ways, optimized for space, etc.
Canvas Scrolling			mgalli	key pan option that moves a canvas instead a content, may include things like incremental rendering, zoom out when scrolling speed increases
Tabs Thumbnails			mgalli	prototype extension with means to jump to *all_the_tabs view and click to reach them