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
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Actions from Last Week
- Dave Mason to come back with information about jetpack adoption metrics as viewed through AMO
- Michelle to scour mobile "flash fail" feedback to see if it's clustered around a small number of sites
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop
Release (3.6, 6)
Beta (7)
Aurora (8)
Nightly (9)
Firefox Mobile
6
7
8
Firefox Sync
- Beta (7) - Instant Sync
- Firefox 9+:
- Improving Sync Set Up - In development. Targeting FF9.
- Push to Device - In development.
- Addon Sync - In development.
Add-on Builder
Add-on SDK
Release (1.0 -> Firefox 5 & 6)
Stabilization (1.1 -> Firefox 7)
Development (1.2 -> Firefox 8)
- development continues apace
Input 4.3
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Mobile
- 25 new threads on SUMO this week, majority of votes for existing threads are support for new devices and flash player
- Android Market reviews for Release v6 (597 total): 145 1 & 2 star ratings this week, 56=slow/unstable representing 38.7% of below-average ratings; 14 below-average ratings cited need for flash player
- Input feedback this week: 93 issues w/ release v6: 12 are flash-related, 9 are too slow
- http://www.meetup.com/Firefox-Android-superheroes/ Join Us!
UX & User Research
Market Insights
Desktop
- Following last week's Gmail offline webapp for Chrome, Google have added a Google Calendar offline webapp, also exclusively for Chrome.
- Google moved Chrome Frame for non-admin access to Stable Channel. This is probably the main use case for Chrome Frame.
- Tweaks to the Chromium extensions interface show a change from "disable" being the user action, to showing checkboxes of which extensions are "enabled".
- Samsung knocked 10% off the price of Chromebooks.
- Google showed a narrowing focus, with many projects either moving to monetise or be EOL'd. App Engine's pricing model was criticised, and the following projects were ended: Aardvark, Desktop, Fast Flip, Google Maps API for Flash, Google Pack, Google Web Security, Image Labeler, Notebook, Sidewiki and Subscribed Links.
- NetApplications reported browser share for August showing a slight (0.25%) erosion for Firefox globally. Forecasts are that Internet Explorer will be under 50% of browser market by mid 2012 - although given the fragmentation of IE (5 major versions in market by then), it isn't clear what "IE" is apart from a brand. Microsoft responded that IE9 share on Windows 7 is the metric they are concerned about.
- Windows 8 behind schedule? In a blog post, Steven Sinofsky indicated several Windows 8 features would not be available for the Windows 8 build to be released at BUILD.
- Windows 7 update - easier to update IE9. An update for Windows 7 made it less likely that a user needs to rebook a system after upgrading from IE8 to IE9.
- The Palemoon fork of Firefox (for Windows only) is tracking rapid release, but indicated it would not issue a 6.0.1 update, referring users instead to SUMO.
Mobile
Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.
- Opera launched an HTML5 app store aimed at TV and home entertainment devices
- Dolphin introduced Dolphin user accounts with version 6.2 of Dolphin HD, which are used for bookmark syncing
- Net Applications puts Safari as the top mobile browser, followed by Opera Mini. Stats Counter reports differently
- Baidu announced the release of an Android-based mobile OS, called Baidu Yi
- Asia-Pacific leads the world in smartphone use, reveals a survey by Google and Ipsos