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
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Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Kilimanjaro
Firefox Desktop
No voice updates today, in a conflicting meeting. -akeybl
Release (13, 10esr)
- We are spinning a FF13.0.1 release today, for likely release Friday.
- We are in our second week of the cycle - Firefox 14 Beta 7 will be shipping this week
- The FF13 post-mortem will be held next Tuesday at 9AM PT
Beta (14)
- Please continue to prioritize tracked FF14 bugs over tracked FF15 bugs over work landing on m-c
Aurora (15)
- There are still plans to re-enable bg updates on Aurora in the next couple of weeks, will keep everybody updated.
Nightly (16)
Firefox Mobile
Beta (14)
Aurora (15)
Nightly (16)
Services
Firefox Sync
Apps In the Cloud Server
Add-on SDK
Release (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)
Stabilization (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)
Development (1.9 -> Firefox 14, 15)
Identity
Apps
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Mobile
(Just read the wiki today please)
Top three dissatisfiers (startup speed, memory consumption, Flash support) are fixed in Firefox Beta! Beta is a 4-star product in Google Play, with Beta6 getting 43 five-star written reviews.
Themes: "better than Chrome beta" "makes my work much easier" "downloading is very stable" "love the way it syncs tabs a bookmarks with my laptop"
Low reviews themes: text selection & copy/paste; google search looks old (work is in-progress to fix both)
We have blocked tablets, so we saw a couple of questions on SUMO about that (we improved documentation to fix)
We also updated documentation to address the prerequisite uninstallation of sync'ed aurora/beta/nightly before syncing the final release version.
User requests: import bookmarks from another mobile browser
UX & User Research
Market Insights
Desktop / Platform
Adobe
- Adobe released a number of security updates for the Flash Player. A sandboxed plugin for Firefox was also included.
Apple
- At Apple's World Wide Developer Conference this week, Apple presented some of the recent changes to the Safari web browser, some of which had already been seen in OS X Mountain Lion preview builds. The updated browser will feature a unified search and address bar, synced tabs via iCloud, a new "Tab View" interface, Baidu as the standard search engine in China and "the fastest Javascript interpreter on the market"
- Facebook launched App Center, a personalized dashboard that "aims to improve app discovery across the web and mobile devices". More than 600 social apps were included. At the launch, Facebook said that they had more than 130 games with one million users or more, and that they drove people to the Apple App Store 83 million times last month.
- Interestingly, in the App Center, only randomly-sampled users will be able to provide app ratings, in an effort to reduce the impact of manipulation.
- The Chrome team, in their dev channel, released the first build of Chrome for Windows 8. Here are some screenshots
- Google's Chrome Web Store is now available in Turkey, Ukraine, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. There have also been some improvements in the analytics available to developers.
- Also in the Chrome Web Store is an improved PageSpeed Insights tool, an extension that analyzes all aspects of the page load, including resources, network, DOM, and the timeline.
- Perhaps because of the increasing availability of "retina" displays, Chrome Canary builds now support the CSS image-resolution property.
- Chrome 20 will now feature a timer with microsecond precision, allowing much more accurate timing for profiling.
Microsoft
- Microsoft stated that the upcoming release of MSIE10 will support unprefixed versions of CSS gradients, animations, transitions, transforms, font-feature-settings, the indexed database API and requestAnimationFrame. A number of other properties will also be supported in prefixed form.
- "Pinned sites" in Windows 8 can now sport a 144x144 pixel tile image and custom colours if the site author includes some custom meta tags in their HTML.
Opera
- The Opera team produced a long list of all the properties in the upcoming version 12 release of Opera that will support animation.
Security
- The Chrome team also released a breakdown of a second security breach that was revealed by Google's Pwnium contest earlier this year. This one made use of some XSS vulnerabilities in Chrome's URL handling.
- Yesterday was Patch Tuesday and Microsoft released fixes for 26 vulnerabilities, including one zero-day Internet Explorer bug that affects all versions, even MSIE10.
Tizen
- Samsung has spent the $500,000 necessary to join the Linux Foundation as a platinum member
W3C
- The CSS WG just resolved during its weekly conf call to allow browsers vendors to unprefix CSS 3 Transforms, Transitions and Animations immediately.
- Tim Bray has submitted a proposal for a new 451 status code to indicate when material is unavailable for legal reasons, for example state censorship.
WebKit
- Support for CSS Variables landed in WebKit.