Firefox/Planning/2011-08-24

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Warp Core
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Actions from Last Week

• Brad to come back about master password blog post

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Mobile

Release 6

Increase in installs, active users, and rating - see details below.

Market Insights

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• Dolphin announced 9 million downloads and a partnership with Softbank, a Japanese carrier, in launching a 3D phone featuring the Dolphin HD browser

• Opera launched a co-branded version of the Opera Mini browser with Vodafone Essar, India's 3rd carrier by number of subscribers

• The Android team announced that it will bring closer its development of the Android browser and Chrome by making available a slightly modified, open source Android browser port in Webkit.

• Google has released a preview version of a Google TV plug-in for the Android SDK, after buying Motorola Mobility, an important player in the TV set-top box business

• Microsoft filed a patent lawsuit against Motorola, which can act as a test for the protection that Motorola's patents can provide to Android handset makers, which was the main reason declared for Google's acquisition last week

• HP announced that it will discontinue efforts for the hardware of its Web OS devices and focus on the platform development, which it hopes to license to other hardware makers

• Frequent mobile Internet users are happier with their mobile operator, as consumers perceive that the quality of their experience on the device is linked to the quality of service provided by their mobile operator, a survey by On Device Research from April reports.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

• Firefox 7 reaches beta, promises faster browsing
• Major performance changes mark Firefox 7 beta
• First Firefox 7 Beta Promises Dramatically Lower Memory Use

• New Aurora 8 works on memory, guts, and add-ons

• Firefox on the hot seat for browser versioning
• Resistance to the Resistance to Version Numbers

Questions, Comments, FYI

• What is the final schedule for 3.6.21? There's been some back and forth on the release-drivers mailing list. (bhearsum)
  • The only constraint from RelEng is that we can't do builds during the All Hands. Pushing to the beta channel during that week is fine, though.