Firefox/Planning/2012-07-11

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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

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Actions from Two Weeks Ago

• sheila to confirm where people can find updated/detailed product reqs for basecamp once they exist
• axel to update us on l10n for metro
  • discussed with Asa, Rob Strong, Jim Blandy
  • one binary deliverable with different UI on different windows
  • not bound to a market or such
  • bug 769677 on file to track that we're not duplicating 300 searchplugins and such

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

Google

• Google now tells all visitors to Blogger.com that use Opera that the browser "is no longer supported … some parts will not work
• Chrome now features an event-driven system for extension developers, that allows extensions to by driven by browser events, spending the rest of the time deallocated from memory
• Google more formally presented the getUserMedia and Gamepad APIs, which are now in the Beta versions of Chrome
• Google will apparently pay a $22.5m penalty to the US government for "surreptitious bypassing of the privacy settings of millions of Apple Safari users"
• Chrome now no longer supports Mac OSX 10.5
• In marketing news, Google is now distributing free CDs of Chrome in US Best Buy stores and Lenovo apparently bundles Chrome with some of its notebooks

Microsoft

• Microsoft produced a detailed summary of how IE10 will support the latest candidate recommendation for CSS Gradients
• Microsoft patched 16 vulnerabilities, including one in Windows that's been exploited for weeks and two in IE9 in the first-in-years back-to-back browser update.
• Microsoft has increased their Internet Explorer development resources to the point that they can [http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2012/07/10/gadgets-certificate-housekeeping-and-the-july-2012-bulletins.aspx now "be able to release an update during any month instead of on our previous, bi-monthly cadence."

Opera

• Opera's dev builds now support SPDY
• … they also support a number of -webkit- prefixed CSS properties
• Opera also open-sourced RoboHydra, a "a web server designed to help you test any kind of HTTP-based client … mimicking any server behaviour needed to test your clients.

Torch Browser

• The Torch Browser, a Chromium-based desktop browser with built-in social sharing and Bittorrent support, was launched.

WebKit

• Partial support for the CSS Variables Standard landed in WebKit