Firefox/Planning/2013-05-15

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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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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Current Releases

• FF21 was released yesterday, 5/14 - release notes are available at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/21.0/releasenotes/

Beta (153)

• FF22b1 has gone to build yesterday and is targeted to be release before end of week

Aurora (54)

• Aurora updates are disabled - will enable on Friday to update to Aurora 23

Nightly (154)

• Nightly is now FF24 as of 5/13

Firefox Mobile

Beta (153)

• [AT RISK] Added locale: Slovak <== We'd like to get sk in for Beta 2
• State of good repair:
  • [ON TRACK] ANR Reporter
  • [ON TRACK] New tab UI <==UX agrees to rename this line item to "refinements" as the UI structure landed in Fx21
  • [ON TRACK] Performance improvements
• We would also like to be sure we get this in for Beta 2 bug 857459 - some about:home content is not displayed at first start-up

Aurora (54)

• [AT RISK] Firefox Health Report
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Turkish
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Hungarian
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic URL bar
• [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, confirmed: preffed OFF
• [ON TRACK] L10N foundation improvements
• [ON TRACK] READER: Serif/Sans Serif font toggle, Add to reading list from long tap, add to reading list from context menu <== Engineering recommends to hold off on promo of this feature until bug 871014 - Refine Reader Menu is implemented
• [ON TRACK] UI for changing search engine default
• [ON TRACK] RSS/Atom feed handling

Nightly (154)

• Quickshare is in progress, may land bug 869123 - Quick Share from Android menu
  
• Mixed Content is also a possible addition bug 860581 - Add support for Mixed Content Blocking
  
• There is great progress being made on About:Home and also on Reflow-on-Zoom
• [ON TRACK] READER: night mode
• [PLANNED] Packaged apps support
• [PLANNED] Web Audio API
• [PLANNED] API: Push notifications
• [PLANNED] SkiaGL improvements
• [PLANNED] Addition of search engines
• [PLANNED] Set Top Box optimization
• [PLANNED] Directional game console navigation
• [PROPOSED] API: Payments
• [PROPOSED] API: Alarm
• [PROPOSED] Location-based search engines
• [PROPOSED] Changing default search engines by locale
• [PROPOSED] Shumway: generic video player
  • Will create new project page with Mobile-specific work to be done when known
• [PROPOSED] Reader improvements
• [PROPOSED] Profile support for alternate browser configurations
• [PROPOSED] Change default search engine for zh-CN

Developer Tools

• Jetpack shipped yesterday. BOOSH!
• Aurora 23 aka ( Devtools Episode XXIII: Revenge of the Minotaur )
  • network monitor
  • source maps
  • remote style editing
  • options panel
  • ubiquitous variables view
  • browser console
  • gcli appcache command
  • Web Console in Debugger Frame
  • Multiple Paused Debuggers

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Google

• Chrome Web app developers are now able to make use of Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome to enable efficient notifications to Chrome users. Notifications only work when the user is signed into Chrome.

Microsoft

• Microsoft, in a blog post, released a series of third-party market research reports that described how iPad users were unhappy with the browsers on their tablets, and how MSIE10 performed better than competition from Safari or Chrome.
• Microsoft also produced a short-but-interesting video of how to develop for Windows Phone using HTML5 and Javascript
• Microsoft announced that a free update to Windows 8, Windows 8.1, will be release later this year. A rumoured feature will be return of the Start Button.
• In related news, analysts are asserting that Microsoft may walk away from the Windows RT platform due to poor industry takeup.

W3C

• A First Public Working Draft of the HTML5 Encrypted Media Extensions standard, providing for HTML5 APIs to control the playback of DFM-protected content. An international coalition of internet freedom organizations urged the W3C to abandon the effort.