Firefox/Planning/2013-06-05

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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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Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Camino

• The team behind the Gecko-powered Camino browser for Mac OS X has called it quits, and encourages users to adopt newer browsers.

Google

• Google announced the Mobile Backend Starter, "a one-click deployable, complete mobile backend" that allows developers to "reap the benefits of a cloud backend with none of the headaches." The solution includes data storage, pub/sub messaging, push notifications, continuous queries, Google authentication, and very low (free) price points for entry.
• Google I/O concluded a few weeks ago -- in the Android world key announcements were improved Google Play Services, which add features for game developers, location APIs, cloud messaging enhancements, and cross-platform single-signon. Android Studio, a new IDE, was released, as well as an updated Developer Console.
• The Chromium team released SyzyASAN, a tool for detecting memory heap errors that supports Windows platforms. It's a clone of ASAN, which supports Mac and Linux platforms. These features are now built into Chrome Canary builds.
• Chrome Beta or Android now supports the Fullscreen API as well as instant translation.
• Chrome now has faster page loading, due to Blink's threaded HTML parser. WebGL joins WebAudio and WebRTC as an option flag. It also now no longer supports HTML notifications; developers are encouraged instead to support the Rich Notifications Chrome API.
• Chrome will soon receive more support for the RAW image formats from digital cameras. Support for RAW files from many camera companies, including Sony, Canon, Hasselblad,Kodak, Nikon and Minolta is on the way.
• At Google I/O, Google announced that the Chrome team had removed 8.8 million lines of code from the WebKit codebase as they dropped unneeded build, platform and test case code to create their fork, called Blink.
• Google announced that they will publicly release exploit information for partner companies' technologies (usually plugins and operating systems) after 7 days if a patch or an advisory is not made available by those parties.

Intel

• Intel's upcoming "Haswell" line of processors will offer 50% more battery life in laptops. Intel and its partners hope to increase demand for PCs with this increased performance.

Microsoft

• Microsoft reorganized their Internet Explorer Developer Center to make it easier for web developers to find and use the tools they need.
• Microsoft announced that IE11 would ship with Windows 8.1 later this year, but has not said whether it will also be made available on Windows 7.

Opera

• Opera released the "Next", or beta, version of its browser, now powered by the Blink rendering engine. Reviews were mixed and Opera quickly followed up with a blog post assuring users that it was a preview build and that more updates were on the way.

Ubuntu

• Chromium is likely to replace Firefox as the standard browser on Ubuntu.