Firefox2/StatusMeetings/2006-02-28
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In Attendance
Agenda
- Alpha 1 Status
- Firefox 2 Feature Status Roundtable
- Any other business
Alpha 1 Status
Features
- Places infrastructure (performance, stability, toolbar drag & drop)
- Undo Close Tab
- Tab Overflow
- Extension Blacklisting
- Extension Dependencies
- Search Plugin Format Changeover (with sherlock import)
- Spell-As-You-Type (english only)
- Instrumentation Infrastructure
- RSS parser
- RSS content detection (?)
Blockers
- version number / branding
- currently set at 1.5, should it be 2.0a1?
- any others?
Release
- should we start the countdown?
Status Updates
Places
update from ben
Brett: "Performance is good, no known data corruption issues."
Tabbed Browsing
update from mconnor
Extension Manager Enhancements
update from rob_strong
Installer
update from rob_strong
Search Engine UI
update from gavin
Visual/UI Refresh
- requirements for the visual refresh are on the wiki
- will be creating a new space for discussion of this theme (dev.apps.firefox.newtheme) and trying to figure out some place to provide hosting for mockups and images
- met with ben and jhughes yesterday to discuss changes to the default chrome for the browser window, the outcome of which was posted to dev.apps.firefox
Platform Uplift
update from shaver
Inline Spell Check
Waiting for clarification on licensing.
Instrumentation / Exit Surveys
update from bryner
Session Saver
update from autonome
Branding & Update Systems
- nothing new here
RSS
update from ben
Offline mode / better use of cache
update from darin
Anti-Phishing
- fritz, darin, neils, mmc and brakowski meeting this afternoon to talk about ways of bundling/integrating Google phishing protector
- also investigating heuristic-based approaches and UI rendering for warnings about phishing
EULA
- nothing new here
Performance
- schrep's out of town, but is still planning to kick off a meeting on collecting better performance data on daily builds to continually monitor this issue