Firefox/win64
Firefox Desktop: Win64
See background summary, market analysis, goals and objectives, here.
Goal
To Release Win64 in GA before the end of 2015 in order to offer our users better experience with improvements in stability, performance, and security. Deliver these benefits in a phased roll-out and avoid the breakage for our General Audience. This means opt-in only until we are confident that we have achieved parity with Win32 for our users.
What have we accomplished so far to reach it?
√ Solved test bustage
√ Release automation for Aurora and Beta
√ Merged to Nightly prior to the 10th anniversary launch and rode the trains to Firefox 38 Aurora Developer Edition
√ Win64 builds are currently available, here
√ Temporarily Reinstate Support for Silverlight bug 1225293
√ Post GA version of Win64, here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/
√ Publish Blog Post: Firefox 64-bit for Windows Available with Limited Plugin Support
Next Steps
- Prioritize Stub Installer to help release automation testing and for download/install experience for our users, see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1140411#c7
- Identify a mid to long-term roadmap
Proposed Roll Out Plan (as of Q1 2015)
| Status | Installer Payload | Release Channel | Date | Target Audience | Plugin Status | Addon Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [DONE] | Full Installer | Firefox 38 Dev Edition | Launched Feb 27th | 1% Developers and Gamers | 64-Bit Flash (unsupported) | Add-On Compat = clean slate | Available for language repacks only! Found, here so it's truly an opt-in experience. NB: Moz.org button displayed on the main Dev Edition page and the beta page doesn't offer Win32 and Win64 in parallel, it auto detects so the user can't install Win64 and revert to Win32 should they want to. |
| [DONE] | Full Installer | Firefox 43 | Launch Dec 15 | 1% Developers, Gamers, Early Adopters | 64-Bit Flash, 64-bit Silverlight (unsupported) | Add-On Compat = clean slate | Available for language repacks only, found here same reason as above. |
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Team Contacts
| Role | Contact |
|---|---|
| Product Management (Decision Maker) | Javaun Moradi |
| Product Manager, Platform | Martin Best |
| Firefox Engineering (Decision Maker) | Benjamin Smedburg |
| Firefox Installer Engineering | Robert Strong |
| Release Management | Lawrence Mandel |
| Release Engineering | Chris Atlee |
| Quality Engineering (Decision Maker) | Robert Kaiser |
| Engineering Program Management | Erin Lancaster |
| EPM/Subject Matter Expert | Chris Peterson |
| Add Ons | Jorge Villalobos |