Firefox/Planning/2012-11-21

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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# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Add-on SDK

Release (1.11 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Stabilization (1.12 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Development (1.13 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Market insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Adobe

• Adobe has changed its schedule for releasing Flash Player security updates to coincide with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule.

Google

• The Android team has released an updated SDK toolkit, which includes a new UI test framework that will help in automated testing.
• The Chrome team took further steps to limit the scope of third-party web apps, limiting "legacy" ones to the same permissions that new apps have.
• Chrome's Developer tools now include a Frame mode in the Timeline panel to better diagnose the causes of animation jitter and lag. The tool includes automated warnings.
• Chrome 64-bit Linux and on ChromeOS now includes seccomp-bpf sandboxing. This kernel-level facilty limits the calls that a particular process can make to a (short) whitelist.
• Chrome now provides a MediaGalleries API that allows web apps to access media (images, video, audio) from the user's local disks, after obtaining user permission.
• The Chrome team released an impressive visualization tool that tracks the location of 100,000 stars close to us in our galaxy.
• Fortune magazine has named the new $249 Samsung Chromebook as one of the best technology products of 2012.

Microsoft

• Microsoft published a simple, clear how-to guide for developers to adapt WebKit-optimized mobile sites to MSIE 10.
• Microsoft released fixed for three critical security bugs in MSIE9.
• Microsoft enhanced the Atari Arcade and pulse.me apps to better work on MSIE 10 on Windows Phone 8.
• Microsoft released an updated Internet Explorer Administration Kit to allow enterprises to more simply create, deploy and manage instances of MSIE 10 browsers.

Opera

• Opera 12.10 now supports the Page Visibility API.
• Opera launched a unlimited music streaming service in Russia. For 150 rubles (~$4.75), Windows Phone and Android users will be able to stream and download from a collection of 2 millions songs.

RIM

• RIM announced that the [devblog.blackberry.com/2012/11/blackberry-10-gold-sdks "Gold" version of the Blackberry OS 10 SDKs will be released on December 11th, 2012].

Standards

• The W3C advanced the Content Security Policy 1.0 specification to Candidate Recommendation. Chrome Canary and Webkit now support the unprefixed header. Mozilla sponsored the concept and introduced it with Firefox 4.
• The WHATWG standards are now hosted on github.com. A todo list is here.

Video

• The Wikimedia Foundation has released an "advanced HTML5 media player" that supports Ogg and WebM.

Other

• Some mobile web developers are complaining about the quality of the Android stock browser on some phones

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Press

Mark is on PTO today; for urgent matters, contact communications@mozilla.com. Otherwise he'll be back next week.

Positive coverage resulting from Monday's Firefox for Android release:

• New Firefox opens up to older phones
• Firefox for Android brings older smartphones into the fold
• Firefox For Android Now Supports Phones With ARMv6 Processors, Adding Millions Of Potential New Users
• Firefox For Android Now Available On ARMv6 Devices
• Firefox for Android revamp brings browser to 250 million older phones

Additional coverage from yesterday's Firefox release (with Social API):

• Firefox 17 is more social and secure, but doesn't care for leopards
• Firefox 17 Launches with Social API and Facebook Messenger Support
• Mozilla Brings Social to the Browser With Firefox 17
• Like? New Firefox adds Facebook integration
• Firefox integrates Facebook with latest Web browser update