Firefox/Planning/2012-02-01

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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
• <a href="irc://irc.mozilla.org/planning">irc.mozilla.org #planning</a> for backchannel
• (the <a href="Platform#Meetings">developer meeting</a> 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 <a href="https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=UK1zyrd7Vhym">Guest URL</a>

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Actions from Last Week

• Lawrence will follow up about add-ons default to compatible on mobile (Dec. 14)
  • Add-ons will default to compatible on mobile in Firefox 12 <img _fck_mw_template="true" _fckrealelement="2" _fckfakelement="true" src="" class="FCK__MWTemplate">

Schedule & Progress on <a href="Releases">Upcoming Releases</a>

Firefox Desktop

Aurora (12)

• Silent update - Windows UAC service in now on Aurora - few patches left to land to complete this work

Nightly (13)

• Snappy - CC and GC fixes going in this week. More on what's happening in Snappy on <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2012/01/26/snappy-january-26/">Taras' blog</a>

Telemetry proposal </dt>

• Opt-in rate has been low on Telemetry
• Want to collect more data earlier in the dev cycle
• Proposal to make Telemetry opt-out on Nightly and Aurora channels
  • Users will be prompted on first launch in the browser (existing users on first launch after opt-out starts) via a door hangar to inform that Mozilla is collecting data and to provide a link to more information including how to opt-out on these channels
  • about: dialogs will be updated to include a statement about data collection as well
• Telemetry will continue to be opt-in on Release and Beta
• Concerns can be sent to lmandel and sstamm or discussed on #perf or dev.planning

Firefox Sync

• has nothing new to report (as mobile will probably steal our thunder anyway :) )
• old news that bears repeating
  • Native Sync has been enabled in Nightly & Aurora
    • Data may be lost, reordered, or corrupted. Please do not use your good profiles
    • It may consume excess battery
    • Migration from XUL to Native will likely cause your sync account to disappear
    • Please remember behavior is undefined if multiple instance of Native Fennec (nightly, aurora, etc) are on a single device
    • You still cannot create an account from a mobile device
  • Firefox 10 has setup UI streamlining, mobile-to-mobile device pairing
  • Addons being sync'ed in Firefox 11, XUL/tablet Fennec 11: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync/Features/Addon_Sync

Add-on SDK

Release (1.4 -> Firefox 9, 10)

• Made two hotfix releases last week(1.4.1 & 1.4.2). Both related to pushing 1.4 into Builder
  • Post-mortem tomorrow to figure out if we could have avoided either of these hotfixes.

Stabilization (1.5 -> Firefox 10, 11)

• Released 1.5b3 yesterday
• Still on track to release on Feb. 21, 2012

Development (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)

• Still on track to merge to Stabilization on Feb. 21, 2012

Feedback Summary

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Opera

• Recent <a href="http://my.opera.com/dragonfly/blog/an-update-on-network-and-color-values-in-css">updates</a> in the Dragonfly developer tool include better filtering in the Network Inspector, including both flow and table views of network requests, as well as some minor improvements to the Style Inspector.

• Opera also made some <a href="http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2012/01/27/smarter-address-suggestions">improvements</a> in their address bar. It now weights the last visit, keyword positions, and number of matches when prioritizing possibilities.

Microsoft

• Perhaps due to their close proximity in the Seattle area, Amazon and Microsoft seem to have good relations. Notably, Amazon just released an <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-developer-kit-for-linking-amazon-web-services-to-windows-phone/11769">SDK</a> for their web services for the Windows Phone platform.

• Since the Windows 8 "Metro-style" version of MSIE will not support plugins, Microsoft <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/01/31/web-sites-and-a-plug-in-free-web.aspx">posted some information</a> about how websites can signal that their website will only work in the legacy/desktop mode by sending a specific HTTP header or meta tag.

• Microsoft also released <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/01/25/debugging-indexeddb-applications.aspx">IDBExplorer</a>, a debugging tool for IndexedDB applications. It provides a tree view of DBs.

Google

• The Product Manager responsible for the Chromebook <a href="http://news4geeks.net/2012/01/25/google-plays-the-long-game-with-chromeos/">confirmed</a> that while Google plans to continue to streamline its product offerings, the Chromebook is seen as a long-term play and will continue to receive investment for the foreseeable future.

• The Chromium team released the <a href="http://blog.chromium.org/2012/01/translating-javascript-to-dart.html">Javascript to Dart Synonym app</a>, which allows Javascript developers to easily understand how to "translate" their Javascript applications into Dart.

• Google also <a href="http://blog.chromium.org/2012/01/all-about-safe-browsing.html">released</a> more information, targeted at users, about how the newly-improved Safe Browsing feature works. It "now analyses properties of each page you visit to determine the likelihood of it being a phishing page." When the likelihood is higher than a certain level, it sends the URL to Google for further analysis.

• The dev version of Google Chrome now <a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=88030">partially exposes</a> users' privacy preferences to extension developers.

• As discussed some weeks ago, Chrome <a href="http://blog.chromium.org/2012/01/making-form-filling-faster-easier-and.html">now supports</a> Google's proposed "autocomplete type" attribute for form fields; it allows web developers to unambiguously identify fields as "name", "street-address", etc.

Webkit

• Interesting presentation: At a recent Javascript conference, Matt Seeley, a senior Netflix developer <a href="http://www.webkitbits.com/post/16771926700/matt-seeley-webkit-in-your-living-room">described</a> how they work with an embedded version of Webkit in their product, which is now available in more than 450 low and high-end devices in more than 40 countries.

• Other recent additions to the WeKit codebase include an <a href="http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=119042">extension API</a> providing information about screen brightness, and a debug page for Omnibox. The WebKit team is also building a performance test <a href="http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/105971">reporting system</a>, using Mozilla's graph server.

HTML5/ Video

• LongTail Video released their <a href="http://www.longtailvideo.com/html5/">State of HTML5 Video</a> report, showing that across both desktop and mobile, more than 2/3 of browsers support HTML5, with the remainder largely made up of MSIE 6,7, and 8. The report also summarizes the current level of support for various video tag attributes. Currently only Google Chrome and Opera support all of them. Other areas summarized include accessibility, adaptive playback and fullscreen support.

• A group of HTML5 evangelists have put together <a href="http://html5please.us/">html5please.us</a>, which summarizes the information behind sites like http://caniuse.com to present clear, actionable recommendations on which HTML5 features should be used or avoided, based on the breadth and depth of support across all browsers.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

• <a href="http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-57369080-12/firefox-simplifies-add-on-updates-no-native-android-interface-yet">Firefox simplifies add-on updates; no native Android interface--yet</a>
• <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223860/Firefox_10_relieves_add_on_updating_pain?taxonomyId=11">Firefox 10 relieves add-on updating pain</a>
• <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/31/firefox-10-update">Firefox 10 gets developer-friendly with Inspector features</a>
• <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/249032/firefox_10_arrives_today_with_extended_support_for_businesses.html">Firefox 10 Arrives Today with Extended Support for Businesses</a>
• <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5880942/firefox-10-adds-better-extension-management-full+screen-webapps-and-ui-tweaks">Firefox 10 Adds Better Extension Management, Full-Screen Webapps, and UI Tweaks</a>

• <a href="http://socialbarrel.com/beginning-firefox-13-mozilla-to-discontinue-support-for-older-windows-platforms/31537">Beginning FireFox 13, Mozilla to discontinue Support for Older Windows Platforms</a>