Firefox Desktop
Search Hijacking
- remove use of keyword.URL
- add prefs UI for selecting default engine
- prompt-on-engine-change dialog/notification
Performance
- Add-on manager startup
- eliminate unnecessary main-thread I/O
- investigate simplified storage back-end (SQLite->JSON)
- Thumbnail service
- no main thread impact from thumbnailing
- New download back-end
- landed and used by at least one consumer (no main thread I/O)
- New tab page
- reduce impact on tab animation
- Password Manager
- eliminate main-thread I/O
- localStorage
- Eliminate all uses of localStorage in application code
Australis
- merged to mozilla-central for Firefox 24
Profile Reset
Permissions UI
Stability
- Develop and deploy a system to allow 3rd parties to submit encrypted/obfuscated symbols to Mozilla, and get popular addons and driver vendors to send us symbols.
- Develop reports to allow prioritization of potentially exploitable crashes.
Plugins
- Make plugin and plugin instance instantiation asynchronous
- Profile Flash IPC messages and rearrange event delivery to delay painting and networking events when synchronous events are pending.
Firefox Developer Tools
Add-on SDK
- UX work
- Places API
- Add-ons run with access to a DOM window
Firefox for Android
Profile Related Work
Various things that are based on profiles, while trying to avoid Sync/PiCL dependencies:
- Profile Reset
- Guest Mode (Switching to a temporary profile)
- Kid Mode (A profile with strong parental controls)
- Senior Mode (A profile with less options and designed pure ease-of-use)
Reader Enhancements
Reader is one of Firefox Android's most differentiating features. We have plans to add more to the core in Q2:
- Night Mode (ambient light based background toggle)
- Sans Serif/Serif font toggle
- Open into Reading List from home screen
- Add to Reading List from external apps (twitter)
- Text-to-Voice investigations (investigate the technology)
- Twitter card support for richer Reading List (investigate the design)
WebRT
- Packaged app support
- APK wrapper support (goal is to uplift to Marketplace)
- Turn off some browser-centric features while in App mode
Game/TV Form Factor
- Gamepad controller support
- TV layout support
User Efficency/Cleanup
- Hostname completion
- Keyboard shortcuts
- SNAV
- Quickly share using last "Share App" from menu
- Improve Settings UI
- Improve Session Restore
Firefox for Metro
Community Development
- Make Mozillians a useful repository of information about core and new contributors, including all employees.
- Establish a roadmap for contributors so that they can view their progress on Mozillians and can see what the next "level up" is.
- Implement engineering contributor rewards program, including both recognition/badges and "stuff".
- Design and implement a set of metrics to measure Mozilla's support for volunteer engineering, and volunteer participation/effectiveness.
- Request for every team in engineering: describe what a "minimum viable contributor" is for participating on that team, including time commitments and resources required.
- Request from bugzilla team: automate regular data dumps of bugzilla data for researchers by 1-May.
- Request from creative team: help provide art (art competition?) to support engineering badge recognition efforts.