Firefox/Planning/2012-05-09

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch 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

• dcm to find updated states of sdk usage in new addons
• thunder/mconnor - update on identity+sync
• michelleluna - look at gmail feedback for aurora this week (doesn't reload); Answer: there is no input data to suggest a widepsread reloading Gmail issue in Firefox, I see only 6 comments out of 999 related to Gmail and none about not reloading, see input.mozilla.org/en-US/?product=firefox&version=14.0a2&date_start=2012-04-25&date_end=&q= A more generic search for 'google' also surfaces no comments about mail issues.

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Add-on SDK

Release (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)

Stabilization (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)

Development (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Android

• In an interesting experiment, a development team led by Miguel de Icaza ported much of the Android OS' environment to C#.

Security

• Adobe released a new beta of Flash Player for Mac OS X that supports silent updates.
• Concern was raised in the press that the impending arrival of Mac OS X Mountain Lion will mean that nearly half of all Mac users will no longer receive security patches

Microsoft

• Microsoft has started mailing "Save the Date" invitations to Windows Phone developers for June 20-21 conference in San Francisco.

Opera

• Opera posted their Q1 2012 financial results. Total revenue for the quarter was $47m, up 28% from the previous year, and net income was up 76%.

Research in Motion

• RIM posted the latest version of bbUI, their HTML5 toolkit that makes HTML5 apps work more seamlessly on their platform.

Tizen

• Sprint, the American wireless carrier, announced that it was joining the Tizen Association
• Tizen also announced more details about their upcoming developer conference, and noted that most of the sessions would be streamed over the web.

WebKit

• The WebKit Inspector tool now offers web socket packet inspection

W3C

• A new proposal by W3C member Florian Rivoal offers a potential solution to the CSS vendor-prefix issue. It would require browser vendors to support both prefixed and unprefixed features from day one, with aliases between the two.

Other

• The Trustworthy Internet Movement launched SSLPulse, a "continuous and global dashboard for monitoring the quality of SSL support across the top one million web sites. "
• An interesting piece by Technology Review magazine about how they, and other magazine and newspaper publishers are looking to move away from proprietary platforms and to HTML5.