Firefox/Projects
< Firefox
Active Projects
| Description | Leader | Participants | Goal | ETA | Target | Status |
| Ts Improvements | dietrich | ddahl, rflint, adw | reduce warm and cold startup of Firefox, Fennec | 10/16/09 | 1.9.2 | getService consolidation, stat and syscall removal, dirty profiling scenarios, measurements, micro-testing perf, dictionary delay |
| Video Controls | Boriss | limi, mano | 3.6 done, working on 3.7 bugs | 10/23/09 (and ongoing) | 1.9.3 | Some 3.7 bugs filed, others getting design time in preparation to being filed |
| 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. |
| 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. | |
| Tab Matches In Awesomebar |
limi |
edilee |
Make it possible to switch tabs using the AwesomeBar |
1.9.3 |
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| 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 (exploration phase) |
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 (exploration phase) |
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 with design. Landed old code cleanup bug 516940. |
Inactive Projects (need to finish)
- Accelerated Scrolling
- Multitouch Polish
- Doorhanger notifications
- Eradicating Startup Dialogs
- 404 Error Pages
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
- Firefox WinCE (minor stuff still to do)
- 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)
- Plugin Update Referrals (LANDED 1.9.2)
- Personas Uplift Exploration (LANDED 1.9.2)
- Reduce Places Views Overhead (LANDED 1.9.2)
Template
(Mostly) Blank Template for new projects.