Firefox2/StatusMeetings/2006-02-28

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In Attendance

Agenda

  1. Alpha 1 Status
  2. Firefox 2 Feature Status Roundtable
  3. 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

[*] Extension Dependencies - phase 1 landed - no regressions so far [*] Extension Blacklisting - patch ready for review last Friday. [*] Extension Locales - started [*] Extension UI - mockups and proof of concept started

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

  • SVG textPath needs to get an answer and attention in the next 2 weeks, thus I make a commitment here that I will produce a landing scenario for them by March 10.
  • no new status on UTF-16 XPCOM I/O fixes.
  • schedule for platform uplift deadlines no longer clear due to schedule strategy shift; will try to build something new there for next week.
  • need to produce a plan for tracking 1.8.1 approval queues and setting expectations there appropriately.

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

Other Business

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