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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 | 10/09/09 | 1.9.2 | getService consolidation, stat and syscall removal, dirty profiling scenarios, land pgo, evaluate delay toolbar population, measurements |
| 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 | Get the next patch revision done and in for review. |
| 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) |
| Theme and UI Revamp | shorlander | faaborg, limi | initial linux concepts of proposed ideas, line-up of capabilities priorities, steps towards approval. | 10/09/09 | 1.9.3 | solid direction for 3.7 and 4.0. in the refinement stage on Mac and Windows. |
| Personas Uplift Exploration | Dao | Mossop | include support for lightweight themes in Firefox 3.6 | Between beta and RC... | 1.9.2 | Basic components and beta-blocking fixes are done, caching of the current theme is next. |
| Plugin Update Referrals | Mossop | beltzner, johnath, morgamic, lmesa, alix, blizzard, Unfocused | Firefox checks for outdated plugins and takes you to a page on mozilla.com to get updated plugins.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 | Landed and baking on trunk |
| 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 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. | Post up this week | the future | Mockups complete, ready to start gathering feedback. | |
| Reduce Places Views Overhead | Mano | mak | 20/09/2009 | 1.9.2 | Landed on trunk. Waiting 1.9.2 approval. Working on further followup perf improvements. | |
| 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 | |
| Places Async Expiration |
mak |
mano |
Make Places expiration async |
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)
- 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
- Crowdsource Performance Data
Completed Projects / Archive
- Firefox/Projects/Places Vacuum (LANDED 1.9.2)
- 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)
- Animation priorities (became two child-sprints: Tab & Menu item animation and Find on Page improvements)
- about:support (LANDED 1.9.2)
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