Firefox/Planning/2014-03-19

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Alien Nation (2nd Floor) 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

These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop & Platform

Current Releases

• 28.0 released! All Pwn2Own fixed! Schedule not slipped! We Rock!

Beta (133)

• 29.0b1 is with QA, shipping tomorrow (thurs) am
  • We will be watching for Sync account uptake and any indication of issues with that
  • Metro is still enabled for now, waiting for clean pull that doesn't break users on update

Aurora (54)

• Will be unthrottled Friday

Firefox Mobile

Beta (133)

• [ON TRACK] Toolbar Refactor
• [ON TRACK] Shumway Bundled in Browser but disabled, bug 905668
• [ON TRACK] Promo snippet for Sync
• [ON TRACK] Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace
• [ON TRACK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [ON TRACK] Ability to "Hide" existing panels in about:home (see the full project page for more details)
• [AT RISK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on, bug 862801.
• [AT RISK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [AT RISK] Replace throbber with progress bar bug 917896, bug 959776
• [AT RISK] APK Synthesis on by default
• [AT RISK] Promo snippet for Marketplace
• [AT RISK] Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.5 integration

Aurora (54)

• [AT RISK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 942231
• [AT RISK] Firefox Hub v1 (RSS feed support + 2 add-ons)
• [PROPOSED] Placeholder for FxA/Sync Backlog
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Argentine Spanish (es-AR), bug 979250
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Mexican Spanish (es-MX), 979251 bug 979251
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Malay (ms), bug 979257
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv) , bug 958021
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833

Nightly (134)

• [PROPOSED] UX Telemetry
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete)
• [PROPOSED] WebRTC tab streaming
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Marketplace discovery feed add-on (project page TBD)
• [PROPOSED] Promotional banner enhancements
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Add new My Panel from Promotional Banner
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [AT RISK] Quickshare on the context menu
• [PROPOSED] First-run feature tour
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
• [PROPOSED] API: Web activities
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync bug 958889
• [PROPOSED] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Maithili (mai), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn)

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Watching Firefox 28 release, nothing conclusive to report on yet, we will have more feedback in a day or two.

Public Australis Feedback report, https://blog.mozilla.org/useradvocacy/2014/03/18/the-next-big-thing-for-firefox-and-how-we-listen-to-our-users/

We have a full battery of surveys and feedback for Australis in Beta, more coming soon along with second round of Aurora feedback.

Mobile

Watching Firefox 28 release, nothing conclusive to report on yet, we will have more feedback in a day or two.

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team

Mobile

• Android version distribution for end of February puts JellyBean at 62% of all active Android devices, Gingerbread at 19%, Ice Cream Sandwich at 15% and KitKat at 2%.
• Microsoft is rumored to be dropping licensing fees for Windows Phone devices for select OEMs.
• The Netherlands started to allow network agnostic SIM cards, which would allow users to change the network that their phone is connecting to as they desire. If implemented internationally, this could remove the need for roaming and multiple-SIM phones.
• Google released Android Wear Developer Preview, a version of its operating system targeted at wearable devices. The SDK will be released later this year. One of the most promoted features is Google Now and the value proposition revolves around being contextually aware and smart, helpful and in need of minimal interaction. Motorola has announced a watch based on the Andtoid Wear that will launch in summer 2014.
• Chrome introduced hands-free voice search.
• Google and Facebook control 2/3 of the us mobile ad market, according to eMarketer. Between them, they control 66% of the ad revenues, followed by Twitter, Pandora and Yahoo. Google is on top with 46%, while Facebook has a 21% marketshare.