Firefox/Goals/2010Q3

Firefox Development

• [ON TRACK] Feature complete Firefox 4
  • [DONE] Switch to Tab
  • [DONE] App Tabs - Scope for 4.0 reduced (non-global), near feature complete.
  • [DONE] Extension Manager - Bug list is converging, still a lot of work to do.
  • [DONE] Web Console
  • [ON TRACK] Notification UI - Geo and EM notifications done, http auth next.
  • [ON TRACK] New Theme - Windows and Mac good, Linux catching up now
  • [DONE] TabCandy Panorama
  • [AT RISK] Silent updates on Windows
  • [DROPPED] Inspector
  • [DROPPED] Account Manager - WIP patches posted, but we can't contain the review load and code risk.

• [AT RISK] Dirty profile startup within 20% of clean profile startup (modulo extensions, plugins; on windows)
  • Current status: Lots of data has been collected and analyzed, but no solid conclusions have shaken out.
  • Details page
  • Shawn has an updated blog post. Read it for more info.
  • Bugs on file that help:
    • Excessive cookie i/o bug bug 572223 (fixed)
    • Session Restore negatively impacts startup time based on the number of tabs loaded bug 582005
    • Suboptimal SQLite page size bug 416330 (fixed)
    • Provide a global VACUUM component bug 541373

• [MISSED] Jetpack API-complete for 1.0 (All JEPs E10s-aware/safe)
  • [DONE] 1.0 SDK final API set selected
  • [DONE] 0.6 Release
  • [DONE] 0.7 Release
  • [ON TRACK] 0.8 Release
  • APIs all done, but it will be a mid-October release to get the last few to be e10s aware.

Developer Tools

Bespin/Skywriter

• [DONE] Highlight the use of official vs. unofficial modules in FlightDeck (bug 572115)
• [DONE] Detect errors in user code (bug 572259)
• [DROPPED] Initial JavaScript server (bug 572260)
• [DROPPED] JavaScript server hosting plan (bug 572261)

(Note: work is underway on the JavaScript server, but it has been dropped as a goal because the developer tools group has been entirely refocused on Firefox developer tools this quarter.)

Firefox 4

• [DROPPED] No feature-level blocking bugs left for integrated Firefox 4 Inspector
• [DONE] No feature-level blocking bugs left for integrated Firefox 4 Console

Mobile UI/JS Framework

• [DONE] A basic cross-platform set of HTML/CSS/JavaScript for developers to create mobile applications with (includes basic form functionality as well).

Org

• [DONE] Create cohesive vision & strategy for Developer Tools group going forward (includes both client and server based solutions)