Firefox/Projects
< Firefox
Active Projects
| Description | Leader | Participants | Goal | ETA | Target | Status |
| Firefox WinCE | vlad | dolske, rstrong | finalize | 21 Sep 2009 | 1.9.2 | doneish -- final package delivered to nvidia, waiting on QA results) |
| Ts Improvements | dietrich | ddahl, rflint, adw | reduce warm and cold startup of Firefox, Fennec | 09/25/09 | 1.9.2 | windows timing and analysis, getService consolidation, stat and syscall removal, more dirty profiling |
| 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. | 2 Oct 2009 | 1.9.3 | Places C++ code has been rewritten in JavaScript. Still some L10N issues and general touch up to do. |
| Video Controls | Boriss | limi, mano | Fullscreen patch has landed thanks to dao (yay!), getting UI & code reviews. Other bugs finished are (), in progress are () | 02/10/09 | 1.9.3 | Solid direction for 3.6 (finishing remaining bugs) and 3.7 (starting work) |
| Update Default Theme | shorlander | faaborg, limi | finalized mac concepts, initial linux concepts of proposed ideas, line-up of capabilities priorities, steps towards approval. | 09/25/09 | 1.9.3 | solid direction for 3.7 and 4.0 |
| Personas Uplift Exploration | Dao | Mossop | include support for lightweight themes in Firefox 3.6 | 09/21/09 | 1.9.2 | Large chunks have landed, bug 511771 is awaiting vlad's SR |
| Animation priorities (tear-off, find, movement of menu items) | Boriss | shorlander | "Next steps" document outlining what will be needed to move forward on implementation | 09/28/09 | future (possibly about to be deleted in favor of two child-sprints: Tab & Menu item animation and Find on Page improvements) | Have mockups & interaction flows, but nothing yet implemented |
| Plugin Update Referrals | Mossop | beltzner, johnath, morgamic, lmesa, alix, blizzard, Unfocused | Firefox checks for outdated plugins and takes you to a page on mozilla.com to get updated plugins. | 09/28/2009 | 1.9.2 | Patch is waiting for review, strings have landed |
| Per Tab Network Prioritization | zpao | limi | Get reviews, write tests (not in that order) | 2009/09/30 (for next step) | 1.9.2 | getting people to review it, writing tests... |
| 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 | Landed on trunk and 1.9.2, new tests landing. |
| Places UI | faaborg | Investigate changes to the places UI for 3.7 and 4.0, focusing on mixing search + browse operations, and leveraging the content area. | 3.7 mockups done by 9/25, all mockups done by 10/2 | the future | Creating mockups based on work week meetings. | |
| Reduce Places Views Overhead | Mano | mak | 20/09/2009 | 1.9.2 | Landed on trunk. | |
| about:support | cbartley | TBD | Create an in-content about:support page that support can use to help users with problems. | 25 Sept 2009 | 1.9.2 | Landed on mozilla-central and 1.9.2. |
| Tab Matches In Awesomebar |
limi |
dietrich/marco? |
Make it possible to switch tabs using the AwesomeBar |
1.9.3 |
Next up: blog post | |
| Improve Mac installer | limi | community volunteers, for now | Detect when we launch from disk image/downloads folder, offer to move to Apps | 1.9.3? | ||
| Tab & Menu item animation |
boriss |
none yet (shorlander?) |
Add intuitive, subtle motion to the menu bar including tab tearoff and rearrangement of menu items |
1.9.3 |
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| Find on Page improvements |
boriss |
none yet (zpao? shorlander?) |
Make finding text on a page easier through more intuitive controls & subtle animation |
1.9.3 |
Getting started |
Inactive Projects (need to finish)
Prioritized
- System Extension Notification
- Understand why we strand users on point releases
- Always have option to Add Search
- 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
- 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)
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.