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Active Projects
Description | Leader | Participants | Goal | ETA | Target | Status |
Firefox WinCE | vlad | dolske, rstrong | finalize | 4 Sep 2009 | 1.9.2 | final todo list and roadmap for platform-complete release (both technical and delivery reqs checklist) |
Ts Improvements | dietrich | ddahl, rflint, adw | reduce startup IO, find and remove dead code, reduce XPCOM/JS component load time | 09/04/09 | 1.9.2 | cold Ts measurement, moving modules to jar, manifest files, nss init, dictionary init |
Multitouch Polish | felipe | rstrong | improve gesture implementation and prototype implementation of general gesture UI | 07/08/09 | 1.9.2 | |
404 Error Pages | cbartley | Boriss, johnath | Override server-supplied 404 error pages in certain cases to provide tools we think will be more useful to the user. | 12 Sept 2009 | 1.9.3 | Patch is awaiting review. Goal is to get it landed on trunk this week. Need to ping reviewers. |
Video Controls | Boriss | limi, mano | Following up work week decisions with implementation & bugs, getting needed workflow sketches & graphics to people doing implementation | 18/09/09 | 1.9.3 | Have received feedback on UI controls and iterated, are ready to begin implementation planning and final graphics. |
Update Default Theme | shorlander | faaborg, limi | refined 3.7 mockup, example of trimmed menus, mac/linux version of proposed ideas, line-up of capabilities priorities. | 07/08/09 | 1.9.3 | solid direction for 3.7 and 4.0 |
Doorhanger notifications | MattN | dolske, faaborg | move to Larry & submit WIP patch for review | 18/09/09 | 1.9.3 | received mockups. working standalone doorhanger |
Personas Uplift Exploration | Dao | myk, shorlander, mart3ll | fix Firefox bugs that prevent proper Personas integration | 07/08/09 | 1.9.3 | next steps will be to get UI input on how to integrate UI |
Animation priorities (tear-off, find, movement of menu items) | Boriss | shorlander | initial sketches and requirements documentation | 14/08/09 | future | Have brainstormed animation priorities and have three to propose, next steps will be feedback on those priorities and iteration on them. |
Plugin Update Referrals | Mossop | beltzner, johnath, morgamic, lmesa, alix, blizzard, Unfocused | Firefox checks for outdated plugins and takes you to a page on mozilla.com to get updated plugins. | Firefox 3.6 | 1.9.2 | Mostly spec'ed, about to start implementing |
Per Tab Network Prioritization | zpao | limi | Improve perceived startup (particularly for large sessions) by making the selected tab & window have higher prioritization than background tabs & windows. | Unknown | 1.9.2? | Investigating where changes will need to be made & how extensive changes will be. |
Places Vacuum | mak | sdwilsh | Fragmented databases are known to cause performance problems. Try a Places implementation before investigating an app-wide vacuum. | 03/09/2009 | 1.9.2 | Waiting for review. |
Eradicating Startup Dialogs | faaborg |
mossop (extensions) need more |
Remove the need for all existing start up dialogs | 1.9.2? | Collecting list of dialogs to target, getting people to own the areas | |
Places UI | faaborg | Investigate changes to the places UI for 3.6 and 3.7, focusing on mixing serach + browse operations, and leveraging the content area. | Creating mockups based on work week meetings. | |||
Reduce Places Views Overhead | Mano | mak | 15/09/2009 | 1.9.2 | First review done, next patch coming. |
Inactive Projects
Prioritized
- System Extension Notification
- Understand why we strand users on point releases
- Always have option to Add Search
- Tab Matches In Awesomebar
- Add Search to Awesomebar
- Rebuild Software Update without browser element
- App-wide Database Vacuum
- Unbreak RSS
- about:newtab
- Improve Plugin Find and Install
- Visual Affordance for Tear Off Tabs
- Extension Manager API Updates
- Addons Manager Redesign
- about:support
- Control-Tab
- Update dictionaries
- about:problems
- Automatic Recovery
- about:me (first-pass addon done, uplift approach still open)
Unprioritized
Additional Projects Ideas (Need more definition)
- Places Schema Redesign
- Areas that need code cleanup or overhaul
- App-wide Database Integrity Check
- Migration Component JS Porting
- Rewrite Places SQL Query Builder
- Create a Places page thumbnail service
Completed Projects / Archive
- Perception of Performance (Investigation, see wiki page for follow up projects)
- Asynchronous Annotation Protocol Handler (LANDED 1.9.1)
- Places Expiration Performance Refactoring (LANDED 1.9.1)
- Bookmark Dialog Focus (LANDED 1.9.1)
- Restore Visible Tabs First (LANDED 1.9.1)
- Privacy Prefpane Refresh (LANDED 1.9.1)
- Clear Recent History by Time Range (COMPLETED WITH NOTES)
- Undo Close Window (LANDED 1.9.1)
- Windows Theme Polish (LANDED 1.9.1)
- Focus Ring Cleanup (LANDED 1.9.1)
- Places DB Creation Scripts (COMPLETED)
- Asynchronous Location Bar (LANDED 1.9.2)
- Form Awesomecomplete (LANDED 1.9.2)
- Focus rewrite (LANDED, NO WIKI PAGE)
Template
(Mostly) Blank Template for new projects.