Firefox/Planning/2012-06-20
Planning Meeting Details
- Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 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# 95312 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
- Vidyo Room: Warp Core
- Vidyo Guest URL
Contents
- 1 Actions from Last Week
- 2 Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
- 3 Feedback Summary
- 4 UX & User Research
- 5 Market Insights
- 6 Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
- 7 Questions, Comments, FYI
- 8 Actions this week
Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Kilimanjaro
Firefox Desktop
Release (13, 10esr)
- FF13.0.1 was released unthrottled last Friday (with this changeset) - the Firefox 13/13.0.1 post-mortem was held yesterday morning
- External issues with FF13
- bug 762062 – Firefox startup crash in JS_HoldPrincipals (Correlation to Skype 6.0.0.10201)
- Skype believes they have a fix rolling out in a matter of days, so we've decided to hold off on blocklisting
- bug 762062 – Firefox startup crash in JS_HoldPrincipals (Correlation to Skype 6.0.0.10201)
- External issues affecting all recent Firefox versions
- bug 763444 – Flash crash F1398665248_____________________________
- Adobe believes they have a fix, this remains our top issue for Firefox
- Workarounds: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/flash-113-crashes
- bug 763459 – RealPlayer Browser record plugin breaks Youtube since Fx13
- Real is working on a fix, we've blocklisted the add-on versions which were contributing
- Other workarounds, if the blocklist doesn't resolve the issue: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/flash-113-doesnt-load-video-firefox
- bug 763444 – Flash crash F1398665248_____________________________
Beta (14)
- We are in our third week of the cycle - Firefox 14 Beta 8 will be shipping this week
Aurora (15)
- Unless any new blockers are found, background updates will be enabled for Windows users by early next week
Nightly (16)
- A couple of good fixes for the Desktop Web Runtime
- bug 745980 - integrate breakpad and crash reporter into desktop webapp runtime
- bug 755557 - support blocklisting flash versions
- Arrow panels have been redesigned:
- bug 765714 - Reduce the arrow panel arrow size
- bug 764755 - Remove the aero glass style border of arrow panels and reduce the arrow size
- Snappy fixes
- bug 702344 - (PermissionManagerIO) Squash main thread PermissionManager sqlite outputs (moz_hosts table)
- bug 734015 - Slow down parsing of web pages in background tabs.
- bug 761763 - Re-enable Mac a11y in nightly
Firefox Mobile
Beta (14)
- Fennec Native 14.01 beta 8 is available, but will not be shipped externally
Aurora (15)
- New Tabs UI for phones (with swipe) and the beginnings of our tablet UI are being uplifted today
- Honeycomb (tablet) Flash support is expected before the end of this cycle
Nightly (16)
- bug 713450 - (tab-slide) Close tabs by slide
- bug 765069 - Close by swipe velocity checks are wrong
- bug 766259 - Chromeless Webapps initial landing done. Lots of follow up work
- more reader mode work landing bug 750683, bug 750686, bug 750681, bug 760645
- bug 759747 Fullscreen plugin support for ICS
- bug 695173 - content text selection
Services
- If you have opinions or feelings about what the architecture or UI of multiple Persona/BrowserId, AITC, store, sync accounts, fennecs on the same phone will look like, please make your feelings known this week.
- ping :ally to get involved with that conversation
Firefox Sync
- Thiiiiiiiiiiis close to Native Fennec. \o/
Apps In the Cloud Server
- quiet days early next week. (no deployments)
BrowserId/Persona Server
- quiet days early next week. (no deployments)
Add-on SDK
Release (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)
Stabilization (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)
- SDK 1.8 is on track to be released next Tuesday, June 26th
Development ( 1.9 -> Firefox 14, 15 )
- Jetpack CommonJS loader landed on m-c Tuesday, June 19th.
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743359
- first step on the way to shipping the core SDK loader & modules with Firefox
- makes add-ons smaller, allows us to fix / sync issues in Jetpack APIs with every Firefox release.
Identity
Apps
- Firefox Desktop 15 (Aurora)
- Landed: Support of native installation and and chromeless launch of apps for Win and Mac OS
- Firefox Desktop 16 (Nightly)
- Fit and polish for K9o requirements
- Firefox Mobile 16 (Nightly) - in progress
- Features: Native Install and chromeless window launch
- Proposed marketplace bundling with Fennec is an open issue. See bug 738545
- Starting to land some features in Nightly - check them out!
- Apps in the Cloud
- AITC client for desktop landed for FF15
- AITC client for mobile aimed to start for FF16
Feedback Summary
Desktop
We are currently experiencing a largely negative sentiment mostly due to the Flash issues. At this point 1/3 or more of all negative comments on Input and 18 or Top 20 SUMO threads are related to Flash. Roughly 60,000 users have seen the SUMO documentation for the issue. Anything we can do to give them better visibility will help.
Mobile
Top three issues (startup speed, memory consumption and flash support) are all fixed in Firefox for Android Beta. Market rating is up another 10th of a point this week! See themes/review quotes below.
Issue theme: evangelism, making sure users get served the best content for facebook and google
Overall, beta7 is sweet: "Faster Fox This new version is faster than anything I've used to browse on my phone to date."
"Excellent Nice UI, great performance."
"Zilla luv ya..lol Now this is what I wanted...keep up the great work. Fast, sync able ...hell yeah, this is fire Fox!!"
"perfect nice with flash and much smoother…"
"Much improved This new version is ready for prime time"
UX & User Research
UX Design
- [desktop]
- ongoing thinking about customization mode (Zhenshuo)
- starting on design work for what to do for https with mixed content (Madhava)
- review of some lock icons states for https in URL bar vs. identity alternative (Shorlander, Madhava)
- [sign-into-sites] working on the desktop flow this week (Zhenshuo)
- [Metro] More progress on what a "snapped view" is for and how it should work - presentation here
- [Android] (ibarlow)
- phones and tablets: finishing off the next next version of awesomescreen
- Overview: https://bug739364.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=609449
- History spec: https://bug739365.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=610871
- Top sites spec: https://bug739364.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=610227
- Search suggest: https://bug739369.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=609453
- Reader mode - finalizing designs and polishing - check out Fennec nightly
- phones and tablets: finishing off the next next version of awesomescreen
Market Insights
Desktop / Platform
- Google has announced a "Develop for Good" Hackathon for hackers to tackle issues around repressive political regimes.
- Chrome Canary builds now have support for Apple's new Retina displays
- Independent hacker Hexxeh has ported ChromeOS to the Raspberry Pi
Microsoft
- Microsoft worked with the owners of a number of large websites, including HP.com, Shutterfly.com, UPS.com, and CNN.com to render their pages in HTML5 Standards mode rather than IE8 Compatibility mode. On average the sites loaded 30% faster in IE10 with the new settings than before. The problems included User-Agent sniffing and use of -webkit- CSS prefixes.
- Microsoft's critical updates for Internet Explorer this month include fixes for thirteen security vulnerabilities.
- Microsoft also published a detailed overview of the architecture and features of their Chakra Javascript engine. A new Javascript performance demo, "Bubbles", was also released.
Opera
- Opera 12 was officially released, with a number of "shiny demos", hardware acceleration and WebGL support, CSS3 Animations and more.
Tizen
- Tizen launched the Tizen Development Unit Program, which allows developers to get free handsets to develop against.
W3C
- The W3C published an interesting interview with the teams behind the main browsers in China - UCWeb, Huawei, Qihoo 360 and Maxthon.
- The W3C has published Media Queries as a Recommendation
Mobile
Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.
- Top Developers allowed to reply to reviews in the Google Play store
- Dolphin Engine is a new implementation of the mobile browser with enhancements on the platform level scoring 450 points on html5test.com
- Samsung Galaxy S III getting good reviews
- Microsoft announced a tablet line for Windows 8 called Surface
- Entry-level devices to account for 40% of the smartphone market in China in 2015, up from 25% currently
- Postpaid subscriptions first time on the decline in the US
- Bharti Airtel and Softbank to open mobile portal in India
Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
Marketing
- Gathering marketing materials for next releases
- Engagement team brewing up several new campaigns to launch in Q3
Press
Questions, Comments, FYI
- I warned you it was coming - bug 766286 to create a ProductCoordination vidyo room
Actions this week
- sheila to confirm where people can find updated/detailed product reqs for basecamp
- kev to report back status on google play access