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
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Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop & Platform
Current Releases
- FF29.0 is currently throttled (no updates offered automatically) and doing well in terms of stability
- Due to several smaller, but user-impacting issues we are vetting a 29.0.1 candidate right now, which will be released on Friday May 9th in place of unthrottling 29.0 updates
- Desktop fixes: bug 1003707,bug 1001167,bug 907373,bug 1005958
Beta (140)
- Week 2 of Beta Cycle - can still take more speculative work
- We are about to build Desktop FF30.0b3 tomorrow
Aurora (54)
- bug 865826 changes tab closing pref, affects some addons but Jorge has done outreach to Tab Mix Plus devs (1M ADI) and there will be blog post as well as MDN docs to help others deal with any fallout
Nightly (140)
Firefox Mobile
Current Releases
- FF29 extremely stable, nearing FF23 levels
- However, due to a couple of user-impacting issues we are vetting a 29.0.1 for release on Friday May 9th
Beta (140)
Aurora (54)
Nightly (140)
Developer Tools
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Mobile
UX & User Research
Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team
Desktop/Platform
- Yahoo announced that it will no longer respect Do Not Track requests.[1] Yahoo's reasoning is the absence of a single standard that is effective and adopted broadly, which enables its competitors to derive the long-term monetary value in tracking which Yahoo is not. Browser add-ons help here to an extent, but with current limitations. EFF's new Privacy Badger browser add-on tool helps privacy-conscious users enforce their do-not-track wishes on uncooperative websites and third-party advertising companies.[2]
- Opera released Opera 21 browser based on Chromium[3] for Mac and Windows[4] using Aura-based hardware acceleration.[5] Opera had released its mobile browser called Coast for iOS, which has been also been getting positive reviews for its stripped down content consumption app feel.[6]
- US Patent and Trademark Office published Microsoft's patent filing for smartwatches [7], a product category with global market volume of $700M, ten times the size of 2012, and expected to grow in 2014 to $2.5B, still forming only 5% the size of the watch industry implying further potential growth in the pipeline.[8] While Android captures a majority of the wearables market, Firefox is listed explicitly among the operating systems for wearables. [9]
Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
- Fx29 results: Biggest spike in one-day downloads in over 3 years
- Firefox Accounts: we’re currently creating accounts at a higher clip than our forecast
- Video views on the Web We Want, over 9 million views