Firefox/Planning/2012-12-05

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 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# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Actions from Last Week

• Tyler to dig in on facebook prompting concerns/questions

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Current Releases

• Firefox 17.0.1 was released last Friday
• We're looking into a possible FF17 uptake issue

Beta (146)

• Beta 3's already gone to build, released before Friday

Nightly (147)

• The Developer Toolbox has landed! Take a look in the Web Developer menu and give it a spin.

Firefox Metro

• Elm to mc merge
  • XPC Shell test work complete
  • Sorting out Metro l10n issues next bug 769677
  • Services move to gre work complete, still needs reviews to land bug 817076
  • glandium is currently testing final rev of new packager
  • 5 bugs blocking bug metro-build w/work TBD
  • 2 bugs blocking bug elm-merge w/work TBD (one of which is metro-build)

• Front-end
  • Old Fennec event overlay trap finally gone, dom is now handling input directly
  • W3C touch input support plus Winrt input event overhaul landed

Add-on SDK

Release (1.11 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Stabilization (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Development (1.13 -> Firefox 19, 20)

• final RC3 of 1.12 released yesterday, on schedule for 1.12 final next Tuesday.
• have acquired and will soon start using a twig as a proof-of-concept of builds including the SDK, with a mind to land the SDK in Firefox 20/21 time-frame. Need to eliminate various dependencies as problems ( Builder, etc. ) via testing.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

We are still hovering around 3% greater positive feedback than 16 during the same time period.

Issues

• Font issues - We are still seeing a very vocal minority having this issue. Investigation continues.
• Flash issues - Continue to hover at the top of the SUMO forums issues list [1]

Social API Positive/Feedback

• Messenger for Firefox/Facebook.... This is really great... Thank you very much for developing this
• For Facebook Messenger (which is great, by the way. I love it! Great work) I would love to be able to slide the message windows around the bottom of the screen. As in, drag it from left to right. Sometimes it gets in the way of regular web pages.

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Google

• Google's Android APIs now include improved Maps and "Photo Sphere" functionality, allowing Android mobile app developers to build more interesting and compelling applications.
• The Chromium team released Telemetry, a "python-based framework for writing web platform performance tests" that makes use of the remote debugging protocol. Scripts have been written with it to test multiple devices, recording a replay script, and adds some benchmarking tests.
• Google's Executive Chairman and Director of Ideas have authored a new book that discusses the world's digital future. The book will tackle not only changing technology like smartphones and computers, but also government, technology’s effect on terrorism, privacy, business and more. “This is a book about the importance of a guiding human hand in the new digital age."

Microsoft

• Seeking to turn a new chapter with Internet Explorer 10, Microsoft released a tongue-in-cheek web advertisement making fun of both Internet Explorer's reputation as well as the "haters" that comment on it.
• Because of Windows XP's large install base, some security researchers are saying that Microsoft has no choice but to continue to support it after April 2014.

RIM

• RIM updated their WebWorks API for the upcoming BlackBerry 10 release. This set of HTML5 APIs offers a significant number of device APIs for smartphones and some tooling changes to make it easier to develop and ship applications.

Security

• Researchers have published an academic paper describing how attackers could use a browser-based exploit that could be used to make large, online attacks cheaply.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Press

We're ramping up for next release cycle

On Monday we announced Facebook Messenger for Firefox

• Mozilla launches Facebook Messenger for Firefox, lets you IM your friends from anywhere on the Web
• Facebook Messenger for Firefox arrives in finished form, keeps us in the loop without an extra tab (video)
• Mozilla brings deeper social integration to Firefox with Facebook Messenger
• Facebook: How we helped Mozilla build Messenger for Firefox

Last week we announced a new custom Firefox build in partnership with MSN

• Mozilla mods Firefox to feature Microsoft's MSN
• Mozilla Launches Custom Firefox With MSN Edition
• Mozilla Launches Firefox With MSN