WeeklyUpdates/2009-11-30

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Development Updates

Firefox

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Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)

• Released Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 on Thursday, Nov 26th in the morning
• if you're working on an add-on that integrates with the new lightweight theme technology, please take note of this late change to the observers/notifications structure
• latest metrics show half of our 400,000+ beta users are running beta 4
• data from these users is helping us ensure a very stable Firefox 3.6 release
• closing on blockers in order to deliver a release candidate build this week
  • still aiming to be ready to ship in late December
• mozilla-central will remain restricted to 1.9.2 blockers and approved patches only

Firefox Future

• Blair has posted builds that implement tab matches in the awesomebar
• when the mozilla-central tree re-opens, bsmedberg and the E10s team will be landing out of process plugin work
• Vlad has created an Android Project Wiki for those looking to get involved with porting Firefox to Android using the Android NDK
• Rob Strong is looking at updater fixes for Firefox 3.7 and wants input and feedback

Team News

• we're interviewing for internships with the Firefox team - apply today!

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6
  • builds started today
  • planning to go to beta this week, after QA spot checks
  • on track for mid-December ship date

• Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7
  • schedules posted
  • early February release target
  • any feedback on these?

• Firefox 3.0.15 -> 3.5.5 Prompted Major Update (PMU)
  • overall crashes in 3.5.5 are down from 3.5.3 and 3.5.4 thanks to CrashKill
  • some crashes were fixes in our code, others were blocklisted add-ons
  • even more fixes coming in 3.5.6
  • as a result, we'd like to resume pushing users from 3.0.x to 3.5.x
  • planning to go live with a PMU tomorrow morning

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

Five Years of Firefox

General

Events

• Add-on-Con December 2009, Mountain View, CA.  We are sponsoring this event and will have 3 sessions:  Taking Flights with JetPack (Aza), Mobile Firefox Add-on Development (Mark Finkle), Future of Add-on Ecosystem (Justin, Nick, add-on developer community member). There will be an Add-ons workshop on Thursday night 12/10 where we will be working on 3.6 and fennec compatibility.  Please signup for the Pre-Add-on-Con workshop here.
  
• Sunlight Labs Great American Hackathon December 12-13, 2009; Mountain View, CA.  We will be holding a hackathan at Mozilla HQ on Saturday and Sunday 12/12-12/13.  Please signup for the workshop here.
  
• Foundations of Open Media Software January 13 - 15, 2010; Wellington, New Zealand.  Perfect venue to promote open video.  We are currently looking into sponsoring this.
• Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2010 January 20-22, 2010; Madrid Spain.  We are sponsoring this event.
  
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  Working on sponsorship opportunities and Firefox party.  Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
  
• Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2010) June 10, 2010; Toronto, Canada.  We are sponsoring this event.
  

Support

• No updates this week.

Foundation Updates

• Over 1,000 people have contacted us about contributing to Mozilla through the new Get Involved page over the last month. If you're interested in bringing new people into your project, please contact david at mozillafoundation dot org.