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* Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web! [http://vimeo.com/88343326] 25 years ago, the browser became the killer app of the Internet [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-the-world-wide-web-became-the-internets-killer-app] and Mozilla has been part of that story. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/12/future_of_the_browser_as_web_turns_25/]
* Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web! [http://vimeo.com/88343326] 25 years ago, the draft for the Web was completed, resulting later in browsers which became the killer app of the Internet [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-the-world-wide-web-became-the-internets-killer-app] and Mozilla has been part of that story since then. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/12/future_of_the_browser_as_web_turns_25/]


* Chrome Web Store will permit Themes, Extensions and Packaged Apps to be sold, and the latter two can be offered as free trial. [http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2014/03/new-monetization-and-publishing-options.html] Meanwhile, Google's new policy automatically disabling extensions downloaded from sources other than the Chrome Web Store [https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/extensions-deployment-faq] has been receiving some criticism [https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/d35tIyH8dVM%5B151-175-false%5D] although unlikely to affect the policy to limit such extensions to dev and canary channel builds and enterprise users.
* Chrome Web Store will permit Themes, Extensions and Packaged Apps to be sold, and the latter two can be offered as free trial. [http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2014/03/new-monetization-and-publishing-options.html] Meanwhile, Google's new policy automatically disabling extensions downloaded from sources other than the Chrome Web Store [https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/extensions-deployment-faq] has been receiving some criticism [https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/d35tIyH8dVM%5B151-175-false%5D] although unlikely to affect the policy to limit such extensions to dev and canary channel builds and enterprise users.

Revision as of 17:59, 12 March 2014

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Planning Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 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# 99696 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
  • Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
  • Vidyo Guest URL
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Actions from Last Week

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop & Platform

Current Releases

Beta (140)

Aurora (54)

Nightly (140)

Firefox Metro

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

Beta (140)

Features
  • Looking good, note *no* new locale support contrary to plan of record. Translations are complete just not productized. Fx30, Fx31 are chock full
  • [AT RISK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker <==backed out
  • [ON TRACK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
  • [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
  • [ON TRACK] bug 943475 - Predictive lookup for awesomebar entries
  • [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
  • [ON TRACK] Background Thread Hang Reporting bug 932865
  • [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et), bug 946204

Aurora (54)

  • Go/No Go for Synth APK Support for Apps, we're making sure we feel good about going to beta: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fxmarketplaceGONOGO
  • We are going to do some guerilla sync testing now that clock skew issues shouldn't be causing failures, stay tuned

Nightly (140)

Developer Tools

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Mobile

UX & User Research

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team

Desktop

  • Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web! [1] 25 years ago, the draft for the Web was completed, resulting later in browsers which became the killer app of the Internet [2] and Mozilla has been part of that story since then. [3]
  • Chrome Web Store will permit Themes, Extensions and Packaged Apps to be sold, and the latter two can be offered as free trial. [4] Meanwhile, Google's new policy automatically disabling extensions downloaded from sources other than the Chrome Web Store [5] has been receiving some criticism [6] although unlikely to affect the policy to limit such extensions to dev and canary channel builds and enterprise users.
  • Google is expected to unveil plans for its wearable-centric platform and SDK later this month [7] aligned with it's work with LG in this space. [8] Meanwhile, Chromecast sales crossed into the millions in the US [9] and will be expanding to more countries while the Chromecast SDK [10] has already been utilized to build some already popular apps [11] even as competition emerges. [12]
  • With only 4 weeks to go before 488 million [13] XP machines, or 30% of all computers on the Internet, lose support from Microsoft and infection rates expected at 66%, [14] 49% of computers in China are still using XP with many never having been updated. [15] The US advises consumers to not use Internet Explorer on Windows XP machines. [16] as IE versions on XP receive their final patches before April 15th. [17]

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Questions, Comments, FYI

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