Meeting Notes

22-May-2013

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2013-05-22

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Current Releases

  • FF21.0 looks like it’ll stick, congrats!

Beta (22)

Aurora (23)

Nightly (24)

  • FF24 is also planned as ESR24

    • New scheme: planned dot releases of the ESR will be 24.1, 24.2, etc. For sanity the major+minor version will add up to the corresponding non-ESR release. 24.2 ==> 24 + 2 ==> released with Firefox 26

    • “Chemspill” releases will use a third digit, e.g. 24.2.1

Firefox Metro

Read Only

  • Metro Team completed Work Week in Vancouver – View Results

  • Iteration #7 ends this Thursday on May 23.
    • Team has completed 68 points (48%) of total story work.

    • Majority of the remaining work will carry over to Iteration #8.
  • Iteration #7 Review and Planning meeting happens on Friday May 24.
  • Iteration #8 runs from Tuesday May 28 – Monday June 10.
  • On PTO from Friday May 31 – June 12: Asa will be assuming my Metro responsibilities while I’m gone.

ID Summary Priority Status
831909 Story – Text selection in Firefox app bar (touch) P1 ASSIGNED
831910 Story – Use the Auto-Complete Screen P1 ASSIGNED
831915 Story – Implement Tile Widget and Groups – Part I P1 ASSIGNED
831905 Story – Secure site indicators in the Firefox app bar P1 ASSIGNED
857437 Defect – On-screen keyboard (OSK) overlapping app bars and find bar P2 ASSIGNED
850737 Story – Smoothly scroll the Firefox Start screen – Part I P2 ASSIGNED
867641 Defect: Context Bar covers some text when using previous and next buttons in Find in Page P2 ASSIGNED
781002 Story – Apply metro styling to the context menu P2 ASSIGNED
831913 Story – Use the Firefox app bar in snapped view P2 REOPENED
833131 Story – Sync bookmarks P2 REOPENED
860899 Story – Fixup all failing mochitest-metro-chrome tests in automation P1 RESOLVED
855147 Defect: Settings do not persist when closing Firefox from desktop application bar P1 RESOLVED
835623 Story – Combine page contextual items (URL bar, bookmark star, etc.) into single app bar P2 RESOLVED
867515 Defect – Junior Style “Back” & “New Tab” buttons not displayed when opening links via “New Tab” P2 RESOLVED
833130 Story – Sync passwords P2 RESOLVED
833132 Story – Sync history P2 RESOLVED
849312 [tracking] Backlog – Various sync issues P2 RESOLVED
868217 Change – Adjust Sync UI for better information mapping P2 RESOLVED
833182 Story – Updating Metro Firefox P2 RESOLVED
849395 Story – Allow updates via about flyout P2 RESOLVED
856049 Defect – Lower border of “Pair a device” input box is missing P1 VERIFIED
867121 Defect – Snapped view: Favicons too close to text in awesome screen P1 VERIFIED
867115 Defect – Context menu in snapped view shows the tab bar for an instant P1 VERIFIED
867616 Story – Contextual app bar should replace standard/page app bar choices P1 VERIFIED
867163 Defect – Restore tile button doesn’t work when context app bar is visible on a second time P1 VERIFIED
872243 Change – Remove the “rainbow” gradients from the start screen P1 VERIFIED
866065 Defect – ms-windows-store:// links should not need to be opened with an application P1 VERIFIED
858598 Defect – Select popups near the bottom of the screen are unusable P1 VERIFIED
856267 Defect – Context Menu overlapping with the Tab App Bar when visible P1 VERIFIED
833133 Story – Sync tabs P2 VERIFIED
869237 Change – Move “Paste” after “Select, Select All” in text selection context menu P2 VERIFIED
855663 Defect – On first display, Findbar briefly displays at the top of the screen P2 VERIFIED
872159 Defect – Flyout panels have a different border than permissions flyout P2 VERIFIED
859625 Defect – remove obsoleted nsISidebar functions P4 VERIFIED

Firefox Mobile

Beta (22)

Handy Dandy Tracking Page for Fx22: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap/Tracking_Fx22

Confirmed for beta 2
  • bug 857459 – some about:home content is not displayed at first start-up

  • The multilocale build contains Slovak!
  • Beta 1 looks stable at less than 3 crashes per 100 ADU
  • 4.3 stars and we’re still trending to positive comments

Aurora (23)

Nightly (24)

  • bug 862763 – nsLayoutUtils::FontSizeInflationEnabled shows up in profiles, but shouldn’t <== Looks like this change resulted in a ~14% Tp4 (no chrome) improvement for Android

  • Working to get WebRTC to state where we can pref it on – this is a goal, need to enumerate the plan
  • Also working to converge on Reflow on zoom, slowing down zoom animation is in progress: bug 872139 – Slow down zoom animation for reflow on zoom
  • [PROPOSED] Privileged apps support
  • [PROPOSED] Shumway – v2 branded players
    • Will create a project page for Mobile-specific work when known
  • [PROPOSED] API: Alarm
  • [PLANNED] API: Web activities
  • [PLANNED] API: Contacts
  • [PLANNED] Dynamic Snippets
  • [PROPOSED] About:home redesign

Developer Tools

  • landing refinements for netmonitor, sourcemaps etc in 24

  • Jetpack UX work is increasingly linked to Australis, working to coordinate with Dolske’s team to assess scope.
  • Jetpack has a beta bug, currently investigated and Mossop will arrange patching as need be.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

21 seems quite stable at this point. No urgent issues to report. One small issue to report around UI changes.

Menu Item Change - We are seeing user confusion around moving the “clear recent history” button. Feedback is low at this point, but could increase as more users update. We suggest an educational push similar to the Private Browsing changes.

Scrolling is laggy Comments around scrolling being laggy/mouse only?. May be related to perf problems we saw during the beta.

Untrusted connections (from last week) - Spike died down May 15th/16th.

Updates not completing (from last week) - Only seems to have been May 13th, otherwise, still seeing comments but at a more normal level.

Mobile

21 is a very smooth and stable release. YAY!

We now have automated feedback tools, please ping Tyler if you want access.

UX & User Research

Fuller update to come (will update the wiki). For now, some highlights:

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Mobile

The first Jolla phone was revealed and made available for pre – oder for 399 Euros. A device with a dual – core processor and a 4.5 – inch display, it will be able to run Android apps with the help of Open Mobile’s Application Compatibility Layer. It will not support the Google Play Store, though, so applications will need to be loaded through other venues. Besides Android, it will support Qt and HTML5 apps. The value proposition is branded “The Other Half” and speaks to the device’s ability to adapt its design, settings and apps as the user applies different hardware elements (like a cover) to it, as it acts through her day. Jolla will be providing a few of them, but it invites collaborators to create those accessories. The device will ship before the end of 2013.

http://www.geek.com/mobile/jollas-first-phone-running-sailfish-os-now-available-to-pre-order-1555742/

Opera launched the stable version of its Webkit – based Android browser. Based on Chromium 26, the app will likely switch to Blink once Google has integrated it into Chromium. It holds most of Opera’s signature features, such as the proxy – mode, Speed Dial home page, and Discover panel, which lets the user browse through the day’s top news. Available for Android 2.3 or newer, this version does not support tablets yet and has a 4.4 star rating.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.browser

Samsung has acquired a 10% stake in Pantech, the 3rd largest Korean smartphone manufacturer. While significant in the country, the device maker has had little success outside of it, where is sells in the low – end in some of the emerging markets. Another stakeholder in Pantech is Qualcomm with 11.96%.

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/05/22/samsung-buys-10-stake-in-korean-handset-maker-pantech-for-48-million/

The 2012 Kaspersky Security Bulletin Board claims that 99% of the newly discovered mobile malicious apps target Android. The rate of discovery is going up, from 8 new unique programs in January 2011 to 8 times that amount at the end of 2012. There are 3 main types of malware: SMS Trojans, that send messages to premium-rate numbers, backdoors which provide unauthorized access and allow the installation of other malicious programs, and spyware as the 3rd category. These 3 types account for 51% of the newly discovered malware.

http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2013/99_of_all_mobile_threats_target_Android_devices

Telefonica has announced a deal with Samsung to integrate its carrier billing backend into Samsung’s mobile services. Using the BlueVia payment APIs, Telefonica’s 316 million users who use Samsung’s app portals and services would be able to charge content directly to their phone bill. The rolle-out will be gradual, starting with Germany.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/16/telefonica-adds-samsung-as-a-carrier-billing-oem-for-apps-games-music-and-more/

ZTE has announced that is will begin selling phones in India with 5 devices priced between $105 and $270. The smartphones will be available in major cities starting with October and could be followed later by tablets. Important because ZTE is one of the top 5 worldwide phone manufacturers and India a country with a great deal of potential in the long – term and staggering growth in smartphones sales of 75% Year – over – Year.

http://thenextweb.com/in/2013/05/20/zte-targets-india-as-it-reveals-plans-to-launch-five-new-smartphones-in-the-country/

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

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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8-May-2013

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2013-05-08

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Beta (21)

    • FF21.0b7 Desktop is ready to go

    • FF21.0b7 Mobile was shipped yesterday
    • FF21.0 final RC build’s have gone to build and are with QA

Firefox Metro

  • Iteration #7: May 02 – May 23

    • 14% of the iteration work (20 points across 10 stories) has been completed to date (see table below).

    • 35% of the total project work has been completed to date.
    • We will be releasing figures on the project’s quality performance and defect levels at the conclusion of Iteration #7.
    • Product Manager is reviewing release build to determine which ‘out of scope’ legacy features to turn off in V1.
    • Team on Work Week from May 13 – May 17.
  • Iteration #6: Finished on April 30
    • Team completed 74 story points across 20 features.

    • Team achieved a new average velocity of 51 story points per iteration which was an 8% improvment from the previous iteration.
    • Overall performance gain has resulted in a new expected production release forecast of November 19, 2013 – a reduction of 2 iterations from the previous status update.
    • Production Release Forecast now includes Best Case and Worst Case scenarios – View Release Forecast
ID Summary Priority Status
862209 Defect: Unloaded websites reloading after closing them while using “tabs from last time” P1 ASSIGNED
867115 Defect – Context menu in snapped view shows the tab bar for an instant P1 ASSIGNED
831909 Story – Text selection in Firefox app bar (touch) P1 ASSIGNED
866065 Defect – ms-windows-store:// links should not need to be opened with an application P1 ASSIGNED
860899 Story – Fixup all failing mochitest-metro-chrome tests in automation P1 ASSIGNED
831915 Story – Implement Tile Widget and Groups – Part I P1 ASSIGNED
831905 Story – Secure site indicators in the Firefox app bar P1 ASSIGNED
855147 Defect: Settings do not persist when closing Firefox from desktop application bar P1 ASSIGNED
835623 Story – Combine page contextual items (URL bar, bookmark star, etc.) into single app bar P2 ASSIGNED
850737 Story – Smoothly scroll the Firefox Start screen – Part I P2 ASSIGNED
833182 Story – Updating Metro Firefox P2 ASSIGNED
849395 Story – Allow updates via about flyout P2 ASSIGNED
855297 Story – Provide a consistent OSK experience for when users have no keyboard and mouse P2 ASSIGNED
781002 Story – Apply metro styling to the context menu P2 ASSIGNED
831913 Story – Use the Firefox app bar in snapped view P2 REOPENED
867163 Defect – Restore tile button doesn’t work when context app bar is visible on a second time P1 RESOLVED
833130 Story – Sync passwords P2 RESOLVED
833131 Story – Sync bookmarks P2 RESOLVED
833132 Story – Sync history P2 RESOLVED
833133 Story – Sync tabs P2 RESOLVED
849312 [tracking] Backlog – Various sync issues P2 RESOLVED
856049 Defect – Lower border of “Pair a device” input box is missing P1 VERIFIED
867121 Defect – Snapped view: Favicons too close to text in awesome screen P1 VERIFIED
858598 Defect – Select popups near the bottom of the screen are unusable P1 VERIFIED
856267 Defect – Context Menu overlapping with the Tab App Bar when visible P1 VERIFIED

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

Google Star rating is *visual* 4.5 stars. We are tracking 4.25 for GA in actuality but the visual tipping point is a result of lot’s of hard work
https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/f4488e366b91

Beta (21)

  • We are backing out the fix for this crash because it blocks too many JB devices. We are considering doing a final beta to increase our confidence prior to GA: bug 853522 – crash in mozilla::MediaPluginHost::DestroyDecoder @ libstagefright.so@0xd… on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 with espresso & espresso10 hw running JB

  • Otherwise, we just signed off on Fx21, this will include a push to the Yandex Store

Aurora (22)

  • The Dynamic URL bar (a.k.a Toolbar) has been deferred from Fx22. It remains enabled in Fx23 for testing and convergence

  • Slovak will replace Turkish as the next locale to add support for and it is slated for Fx22
  • Otherwise, double tap reflow-on-zoom, New Tab UI, ANR reporter, Async Canvas Playback

Nightly (23)

Services

Firefox Health Report

  • On track to ship in desktop with Fx21

  • Will hit Android for either 23 or 24
  • Dashboards are still coming, but we can get useful data for Nightly/Aurora/Beta, ask mconnor+gps if you have questions.

Product Announcements

  • No updates.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

USR 20 should be available later this week.

  • Flash – We are still seeing as much (or more) negative feedback about flash stutter or generally causing a poor experience. Crashkill team reports that Flash crashes are down on beta but it seems to just result in more jerkiness complaints on beta, not sure it’s actually improved the feedback.

  • Popups – We are seeing a significantly increased amount of popup reports in both Release and Beta. Assuming it is new malware.

Mobile

Meeting this week to plan a strategy around replying to 1-star reviews on Google Play.

Getting ready for Firefox 21.

User Experience (Design and Research)

  • [WebRTC] Ramping up! (Boriss)
  • [metro] (yuan)

    • Sync UI adjustments:

    • Solution for Auto-complete page: mockup.
    • Notification for adding a bookmark: video
    • Solution for a new Metro & desktop update preference bug 866229

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Google

  • On iOS, Google has now enabled app developers to integrate Chrome within their mobile applications.

  • Chrome Beta on Windows and Mac now supports the Chrome Office Viewer, an extension which provides seamless viewing of Microsoft Office files in the browser.
  • Google Translate added Bosnian, Cebuano, Hmong, Javanese and Marathi, bringing the total number of languages supported to more than 70

Microsoft

Tizen

WebKit

  • WebKit released SunSpider 1.0, an updated version of the Javascript benchmark. Among other improvements, delays between tests have been eliminated so it runs up to twice as fast.

Mobile

  • 2013 is the first year that people will buy more tablets than PCs. There will be 256 million tablets sold and 183 million PCs this year. By 2017 the number of tablets shipped will reach half a billion. This is part of a larger trend of sustaining big growth for tablets, at the rate of 67% year – over – year and a decline in PC shipments, by 10% a year.
  • New Android version distribution numbers put Gingerbread at 38.5%, Jelly Bean at 28.4% and Ice Cream Sandwich at 27.5%.
  • Shipments of smartphones in 8 major developed markets and China put Android ahead with 64.2% on average and 68.8% across the EU, 45.8% in Japan, 61.7% in Australia and 49.3% in the US. iOS is shipped on between 19.4% of devices in the EU to 49.2% of them in Japan. Top device models in the surveyed countries are the iPhone 5, the Samsung Galaxy S III, the iPhone 4S, the Galaxy S III Mini, the Galaxy Ace, iPhone 4, LG Nexus 4, Galaxy Ace 2, Galaxy s II and the Blackberry Curve.
  • Developer builds of Chrome OS feature a touch – screen keyboard. Important because it could mean plans to deploy the OS on tablets.
  • Google has hired a Chief Game Designer. Gaming is one of the top app categories downloaded through the Play Store
  • The first two Tizen phones will be in the mid – end to high – end range and code – named Redwood and Melius.
  • Opera partnered with 7 Indian phone and tablet manufacturers such as Celkon, Karbonn, Lava, Intex, Fly, Zen and HCL ME to have Opera Mini pre – installed on their Android devices.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Firefox 21 highlights from the consumer and industry perspective

Questions, Comments, FYI

  • No surprises [johnath]

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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1-May-2013

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2013-05-01

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Beta (21)

  • We Shipped FF21.0b4 last week

  • Fx21.0b5 for Desktop was shipped on Monday due to build specific AMD Radeon top-crasher – bug 865701
    • The avg crash-rate per 100 ADI was roughly doubled compared to earlier beta’s which was a strong driver for shipping 21.0b5
  • Fx21.0b6(our second last beta) went to build yesterday, planned to release before Friday

Firefox Metro

(Read Only)

  • Iteration #6 ended on April 30.

  • Status report to be distributed on Friday May 3.
  • Review and planning session for Iteration #7 is happening today.
  • We have enough performance data to add Best Case (no later than) and Worst Case (no earlier than) scenarios to our release forecast.
  • Product Manager conducted a major review of Story Backlog to adjust priority levels of feature stories.

Firefox Mobile

Beta (21)

Aurora (22)

  • Uplifted: bug 850489 – Settings page background switches between blue and white on Nexus S and bug 863095 – Don’t refresh AboutHomeContent in onResume()

  • Also fixed for Fx22: bug 863490 – Unloading page with embedded YouTube Flash video logs “grabbing the JNIEnv from the wrong thread” errors
  • We opted to also uplift a stability win: bug 847834 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.BrowserApp.onActivityResult(BrowserApp.java)
  • Decision made: we are disabling Dynamic Toolbar for Fx22 and will work on getting it to a shippable state for hopefully Fx23. Great progress on fixes but it is too risky to uplift them this late in the cycle: bug 716403

Nightly (23)

  • UI Hackathon last week, lot’s of great fixes landed so check us out: ui-hackathon bugs during the sprint. Lucas has a wrap-up post that goes into more detail.

  • L10n repack changesbug 792077 : We stopped packaging a whole ton of files as part of the multi-locale builds. If you see any regressions, please file a bug and CC :Pike.
  • bug 858687 – BrowserToolbar’s menu button is optional
  • Nice A4A fix: bug 853456 – target=_blank doesn’t work with <img> links
  • We heard from a few folks on IRC about having issues with browsing on Nightly, this fix should take care of things so check the latest nightly and report any further problems you run into: bug 863803 – LayerView not shown after resuming from an OOM kill

Services

Firefox Health Report

  • Final Fx21 readiness/sign-off discussion today at FHR meeting

  • Still working on the long-term roadmap
  • Android version moving forward

Product Announcements

  • No update this week.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Desktop is quite stable. This week we are working on Firefox Sentiment Report 20. Should be available early next week.

  • Beta Snippet survey went out.

    • 4.1 star average

    • No specific question so very little useful feedback
    • Some interesting points:
      • Possibly an issue with hanging

        • “for the last few days it has been creating problems like whenever i open it and go from one tab to second tab it hangs and i have to shut down my computer to start it again.”

        • “Firefox does not respond when opening more than 50% of the time. Had to open and close it 5 times. At other times one restart fixes it. Also hangs when more than 6 tabs open. I even try with all other apps closed.”
        • “Also, when a website has a lot of content or I am loading many webpages at once the interface at the top (the part with the tabs etc.) goes Not Responding for a few seconds.”
      • New malware? Quite a few busted search/redirected pages/fake ad-links in content complaints.
  • Aurora snippet survey only has 50 responses, 4.2 stars but that’s hazy.
    • No mention of cookie-related issues but there’s very little actual commentary, a few feature requests.

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Mobile

  • Intel has showed its support for the acquisition of US carrier Sprint by SoftBank, a Japanese network operator. The move comes as the Dish Network, a TV and satellite service provider, has also entered a bid. Sprint is the third largest US mobile broadband provider, with 12% of the market. SoftBank is one of the backers of Tizen.
  • Samsung is preparing to launch a water- and dustproof version of the Galaxy S 4, which would be called the Galaxy S 4 Active. Similar are rumored to be in the plans for some of the tablet and of the Note line devices.
  • Google has explicitly banned the update of apps through means outside of the Play Store, if they had been installed through it. This has been interpreted short – term to be a measure to affect the Facebook app, which had been doing so.
  • Q1 smartphone shipment numbers are out. Samsung sold most devices (70.7 million), with 32.7% of the market, according to IDC. It is followed by Apple (37.4 million) with 17.3% and LG (10.3 million) with 4.8%. The last 3 in the top 5 are the Chine OEMs, Huawei and ZTE, with 4.6%, and 4.2%, respectively. In the overall phone segment, Samsung is also number 1, with 115 million and 27.5% of the market, followed by Nokia with 61.9 million and 14.8%. Apple is on 3rd place with 8.9% and LG is fourth with 3.7%.
  • Opera released stats about its Indian user base: top domains visited are for social networking, search and cricket. 21% of the traffic is for Facebook, followed by Google at 5.8% and ESPNcricinfo at 1.7%. Almost 50% of the top 100 domains visited are related to news and information, search, price comparison and e-commerce. 9 out of the top 10 Android handsets used are from Samsung, followed by Sony and Micromax. Each of the top 10 Android devices cost less than 186 USD except the last one, the Galaxy S 2, which ranks last. The typical profile of an Opera Mini Android user in India is between 18 to 24 years old, lives in an urban area, attends college or works as a full-time employee and surfs the Web at least 1 hour every day. Opera is the top used mobile browser in India according to StatsCounter.
  • Microsoft released an app and marketing campaign to entice users to switch from Android to Windows Phone. The app lets the user check whether her apps are available in the WP store and recommends similar ones if they are not.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Another Badge Unlocked — 15 Million Facebook Fans (Who Are Mostly Young Dudes)

  • This week, Mozilla Firefox reached 15 million Facebook fans! Congrats to everyone who helped make this happen over the years

  • The stronger we can make our “owned channels” like this, the more power we’ll have to spread the word about our mission and products
  • The UX, Web and Product teams are working on a in-product Australis onboarding experience with the aim to help users learn about the new design by interacting directly with it via the web

  • What do I mean? Imagine hovering over a graphic on a web page and then seeing the Awesome Bar light up.
  • This is a best practice in software since it’s an extremely effective way to share product changes with users.
  • See a rough concept in action here http://people.mozilla.com/~csonne/firstrunv2.mov

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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24-April-2013

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2013-04-24

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Beta (21)

  • We Shipped FF21.0b3 last week

  • FF 21.0b4 went to build yesterday, planned to release before Friday.

Firefox Metro

Metro Highlights

  • Iteration #5 – Completed

    • Team completed 75 story points across 25 features – a 19% increase in performance from the previous iteration.

    • Team established a new average velocity rate of 47 story points per iteration – a 17% increase in performance from the previous iteration.
    • Overall performance gain in story points and velocity resulted in a new production forecast release of December 23, 2013 – a reduction of 3 iterations from the previous release update.
    • Product Manager review of V1 Release List resulted in the removal of 9 Feature Stories to V2.
  • Iteration #6 – Current
    • 4 resolved stories awaiting verification testing.

    • 4 Sync related feature stories were reopened following testing.
    • Product Manager is reviewing the Story Backlog and reprioritizing feature stories for the upcoming Iteration #7.
    • Status reports, starting with Iteration #6, will now present three release forecast scenarios: Worst, Expected and Best case.

Iteration Performance Summary

  • Total Work: 109 total story points – 27 bugs.

    • 16 feature stories.

    • 9 defect stories.
    • 2 change stories.
  • Completed Work: 36 story points closed – 14 bugs – 33% complete.

    • 5 feature stories.

    • 8 defect stories.
    • 1 change story.
  • Remaining Work: 73 story points remaining – 13 bugs – 67% open.

    • 11 feature stories.

    • 1 defect stories.
    • 1 change story.

Iteration Work Details

ID Summary Priority Status
851900 Defect – Select popups have ugly gap in item highlight P1 ASSIGNED
855578 Change – Leaving website error message should appear modal P1 ASSIGNED
835623 Story – Combine page contextual items (URL bar, bookmark star, etc.) into single app bar P2 ASSIGNED
850737 Story – Smoothly scroll the Firefox Start screen P2 ASSIGNED
833182 Story – Updating Firefox P2 ASSIGNED
849395 Story – Allow updates via about flyout P2 ASSIGNED
831916 Story – Hide and delete tiles in Bookmarks and History tile groups P2 ASSIGNED
831918 Story – Pin, Unpin, Hide, and Restore a Top Site P2 ASSIGNED
831934 Story – Access the Context App Bar for interacting with Firefox Start tiles P2 ASSIGNED
838497 Backlog – Outstanding Design Assets P2 ASSIGNED
833130 Story – Sync passwords P2 REOPENED
833131 Story – Sync bookmarks P2 REOPENED
833132 Story – Sync history P2 REOPENED
833133 Story – Sync tabs P2 REOPENED
852090 Story – Write selection tests P2 RESOLVED
854070 Defect – Caret selection initiated from the end of a text input is buggy P1 VERIFIED
859447 Defect – Nothing happens when I tap the settings icon in the page info bar P1 VERIFIED
862025 Defect – Dragging a text input selection monocle downward can cause selection to reverse P1 VERIFIED
862054 Defect – caret selection via touch not working, no grippers appear (elementFromPoint doesn’t take clientX/clientY from sub frame events.) P1 VERIFIED
854077 Change – Use radio buttons for “Do Not Track” options and add a neutral option P1 VERIFIED
852805 Defect – Adding “Enter” shortcut while using search (CTRL + F) P1 VERIFIED
855581 Defect – New tab created if you receive “Leave Page” error and only a single tab is present P1 VERIFIED
855587 Defect – Predefined bookmarks should be to final URL and not to a page that will redirect P1 VERIFIED
863060 Defect – Deleting all characters in “find in page” text box results in strange behavior P1 VERIFIED
831894 Story – Put Firefox into Snapped View P2 VERIFIED
831919 Story – Use Firefox Start in snapped view P2 VERIFIED
833200 Story – Use the auto-complete screen in snapped view P2 VERIFIED
860994 Story – Fixup intermittent context menu failing tests P2 VERIFIED

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

Fx for android is now available on the Yandex Store
Install the Yandex store APK on your Android device to browse and select Firefox for Android http://m.store.yandex.com. As of Tuesday AM, we had 180 downloads and 80 active installs.
UI Hackathon
First try of a focused sprint on front-end bugs. This one is focused on UI paper cuts. Current bug list. Starts today and ends on Friday. All are invited to pitch in!

Beta (21)

Aurora (22)

Nightly (23)

Services

Firefox Health Report

  • Continuing on track for Fx21

  • Work continues on performance improvements and general resiliency

Product Announcements

  • No significant updates this week

Developer Tools

  • no audible, but sourcemaps landed and our long Per-window Private Browsing nightmare is over.

Games Platform Update

  • Epic Demo at GDC was a success with more than 170 stories written world wide and over a quarter million hits. BD team reports that conversations are going much better as a result.

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsyogXtyU9o

    • Epic is currently planning to release the demo end of the month.
    • I’m working with PR to figure out the best way to help on that from our end.
    • Mozilla’s logo will be front and center.
  • Other important game related web news, Unity is dropping flash as a port target.
  • Games platform team is now focused on polish, shipping outstanding features, and making it all work on mobile.
    • Currently feedback is that Firefox Android Nightly has the best WebGL performance on the market, this is from a few key developers and I have not confirmed this directly yet.
  • We are in the process of finalizing WebAudio and will be landing elements over 22-25
    • I hope to get it done by the end of 24 to make it into version 1.2 of FirefoxOS

    • It’s a big one so we are making it easier to track with the following wiki page.
    • The spec is build out of nodes that can be done in parallel so we are looking for more engineers to help us accelerate it.
  • ASM.js support is also a priority to land in FirefoxOS and we are working hard to get that ready for 1.2 of FirefoxOS.
    • We have two test projects that are in alpha state and fully playable and everyone is focused on making those work on as low a device as possible.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Preparing to Release User Sentiment Report for Firefox 20 next week. Watch for it in your inbox soon!

Mobile

Monitoring feedback, watching for Yandex store feedback but that is on the back burner. No updates today.

User Experience (Research & Design)

No audible this week – but enjoy:

  • [desktop]

    • [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Blake)

    • [Social API] (Boriss)
      • Mocking up parts needed to open bugs: nub “overflow” mode, icon states in active/inactive menus

      • Following up work on menu states, particularly for single-provider vs multiple-provider
      • Continuing sketches on Share and next steps
  • [metro] (yuan)

    • Presented “Firefox for Windows 8: the present and the future” on UX Summit PDF Slides

    • Landed the on-screen “Back” and “Plus” buttons for full-screen navigation! bug 836791. Top sites tiles are bigger and colorful now (thanks Frank and Ally.)
    • Agreed upon how to quick exit Auto-complete screen Sketches for current direction Notes

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Google

  • Now that Google has forked WebKit to create its own browser engine, Blink, work is commencing on many new platform technologies, including animated WebP images, CSS blending for elements and backgrounds, the picture element, vibration API, web MIDI API, object-fit and object-position, equivalents to mozInnerScreenX and Y, a device motion API, lazy-block layout, final portions of the pointer/hover media queries, DOM3 mouse enter and mouse leave events, CSS exclusions, and more. Opera is also contributing code for improved multicol support

Microsoft

HTML5

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

  • Badge Unlocked — 25 Million Direct Relationships Achieved

The Community Engagement team just past the 25 MILLION mark on the amount of direct relationships established with our user base — Congrats!
That includes anyone who has chosen to follow up through the following means: email, social media, affiliates, and more
Having direct relationships is extremely valuable as it gives us a means to speak directly to users – this is absolutely essential when we want to get out the word on new features (like private browsing, below) or launch new products like Firefox OS

  • Moved and Improved – Private Browsing Campaign Results

Reminder: We launched a outreach campaign to existing users to help launch our improved Private Browsing changes with the Firefox 20 launch
Results: That campaign ended up prompting over 400K users to take action and learn more about these changes, and overall performed within the “average” range, which is expected for very specific feature related communications like this

Questions, Comments, FYI

FYI, all.html is smaller as of today (Axel)

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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17-April-2013

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2013-04-17

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Actions from Last Week

  • Unlikely, since last week’s meeting was cancelled!

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Beta (21)

  • 21.0b3 went to build yesterday, last beta for taking speculative fixes goes to build Tues April 23rd in the morning

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

We re-spun 20.0.1 to remove MP banner and was able to include a couple of good stability improvements:bug 858561, bug 859425

Beta (21)

Nightly (23)

  • We busted our updater for Nightly but it is fixed now bug 860454 the good news is that we were able to test out Product Announcements to that channel. Noted Ben’s note about about pinging RelEng next time to help avoid stranding folks

  • \o/ About:Home content is now displaying correctly thanks to bug 838793
  • WebRTC is building by default bug 835716 – Enable building of WebRTC on Android by default
  • A large chunk if New Layout and Styles was pushed bug 823644
  • Domain Auto-Complete also landed bug 858340
  • Good progress on SkiaGL
  • Happy Reader-Mode changes: bug 814587, bug 784387, bug 857989
  • A bunch more reflow-on-zoom improvements landed:bug 803719,bug 836565,bug 800805
  • Good stability wins: bug 859100, bug 859031
Big <3 to constributors
  • capella fixed bug 848267 – Awesomebar loses correct tab selection

  • Justin Busby fixed bug 755240 – Scrolling axis lock is unbreakable (his first patch!!!)
  • David Hsu fixed bug 861205 – Add a fuzzyEquals helper to browser.js (also his first patch!!!)

Services

Firefox Health Report

  • Working well on Beta, the board remains green for shipping in 21

  • Web-served report will get a small set of fixes prior to ship, talk to mconnor or lco with any requests _today_

Product Announcements / Home Page Snippets (Android)

  • Initial requirements gathering and planning happening, see rnewman/kar for details.

Developer Tools

  • work continues on the network monitor bug backlog

  • msucan landed the browser console and is refining it to make it more useful
  • scratchpad is getting integrated with the debugger
  • Jetpack is closing out a bunch of PWPB work and may politely request Beta uplift for a small patch today

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Firefox 20 General 4.1/5 stars

TLDR: Most users are quite happy with FF 20. There are intermittent reports of slowness, perf, and addon issues.

Positive:

  • No other browser this week has allowed me to log in to my college campus so I could work online to complete my assignments other than Firefox.Firefox is the ONLY BROWSER That Works for me!! :) Thank you..

  • It’s simplicity – no distractions or flashy messages on the front page, and it’s so easy and fast to use
  • I like it better than google. It seems faster and lists places to go on the bottom that I don’t have to type them in. Keep up the good work.
  • i don’t know much about computers but i have been using Firefox for at least six years and find it to be the best for me, its fast and easy to use and for me its just right/ thank you Firefox

Negative:

  • takes lot of RAM. I expect FF to load pretty fast with a very low mem requirements.

  • I like every thing about Firefox except crashes a lot. I like the new features, I can tell it is getting faster and the crashes seem to happen less.

Private browsing: 4.0/5 stars

TLDR: Used regularly 58% of the time, rarely/never 42% of the time. Still a lot of confusion over what it does but almost everyone says positive things.

Positives:

  • I used Chrome for private navigation and Firefox for day to day stuff.

  • Finally i will be able to dump Chrome for good! Hoorray!
  • I like that that now the private browsing function opens up another window leaving the original in tact. In general it looks and feels great, not sure really how helpful i can be.
  • LOVE THIS FEATURE

Some (minor) pushback:

  • You have changed things at the bottom of tools, and over in File you put in a New Private Window. I liked tools just the way it was and did not know that you were going to make this drastic change. I have been trying to back to version 18 or 19 to get tools back the way it was. I would be happy if you could put me back to tools the way it was. Enough said……….

  • I am still on the fence about the changes to “Private browsing”. I think I might have preferred the all or none approach before. I don’t understand the reason for the change, but can live with it.

Download Manager: 3.8/5 stars

TLDR: Mostly positive. The negatives are from users that either didn’t see a reason to change the feature or just have suggestions for improving the Download Manager.

Postive:

  • I like it, because it makes it easier than having a separate window just for downloads.

  • Its much easier to use…thank you
  • its about time you guys changed it. the new one is absolutely brilliant!
  • Keep on doing what you’re doing. If I can understand it, anybody can. Thx Firefox ;-)


Negative:

  • I didn’t see anything wrong with the way it was.

  • Did it NEED to be changed?
  • May just have to get used to it. Old ways sometimes die hard :)


Feature Suggestions:

  • There needs to be a button to quickly clear the recently downloaded files, not just through the “Show all downloads” window.

  • I’d like it more if you added a pause/resume button to the left of the open containing folder button
  • It only shows bar & remaining, I will very much love it if it will show the download speed in first click.

Mobile

No Updates. Feedback is all green with no major issues.

User Experience (Design & Research)

  • UX was on an offsite last week

  • no update this week – more next week!

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Canonical

Google

RockMelt

Microsoft

  • Microsoft released another attack in its “Scroogled” campaign, describing how the Google Play store passes users’ personal information to app developers.

Mobile

  • Chrome Beta for Android was updated to feature fullscreen support, a view of the user’s search terms in the Omnibox (location bar) and information with regards to how much data was saved through the data compression feature. Chrome for iOS was also updated with support for printing.
  • At the end of 2013 there will be 1.58 billion smartphones in use worldwide, according to The Yankee Group. Of those, 833 million will run Android, 357 million iOS, 158 million will be Blackberrys, 137 million will be on Symbian, 76 million on Windows Phone, and 20 million on other OSs.
  • Eric Schmidt quotes at Dive into Mobile:

    • On Android: “320 operators, 160 countries, 700,000 apps in the Play Store and 1.5 million activations of Android every day. We’ll cross a billion towards the end of the year. Android is the primary vehicle of smartphones – we’ll quickly get to the $100 price point, which is the key for the next five billion people looking to get connected.”

    • On local content: “In the developing world, we’re getting products launched with pre – loaded content in native languages.”
  • Hon Hai, the parent of Foxconn, who produces more than 40% of the world’s consumer electronics and a significant share of smartphones, has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft to address infringement issues created by Google’s Android and Chrome operating systems. The manufacturer will pay royalties for those OEM clients that have not signed a deal with Microsoft. The Redmond company already has agreements with most of the big handset vendors, such as Samsung, HTC and LG.
  • Amazon will be expanding the availability of its Android app store to nearly 200 countries, from the 7 where it was previously active. In the past the extension of the app store in new countries preceded launches of Kindle tablets.
  • The most lucrative app monetization method is represented by royalties from preloading of the app (with average revenue of $4,385 / app / month), followed by licensing fees from distributors, commissioned apps and subscriptions. Advertising and pay per download feature the lowest in Vision Mobile’s developer survey on app economics. Among operating systems, iOS continues to lead the chart as most lucrative platform (average revenue of $1,880 / app / month), followed by Windows Phone and Android.
  • In the US, 4G and no – contract plans are fastest – rising motivators for purchase of a smartphone, according to a study by Google and Compete. 1 in 3 people select a phone first, then a carrier and 66% consider 2 or more phone models. 47% of purchasers look at 2 or more carriers (a 193% increase Year – over – Year) and 1 in 3 purchasers have switched carriers.
  • Microsoft, Nokia, and a number of top developers have filed a formal complaint to the European Union against Google’s use of its apps in Android. The accusation is of using Android ” as a deceptive way to build advantages for key Google apps in 70 percent of the smartphones shipped today”. This comes at a time when the European Union is in the final stages of an inquiry into the search offering of the company.
  • New version distribution numbers for Android put Gingerbread at 39.8%, Ice Cream Sandwich at 29.3% and Jelly Bean at 25%. The next version of Android, Key Lime Pie, is expected to be unveiled at Google I/O in May.
  • Today, an average US consumer spends 2 hours and 38 min a day on a phone or tablet, according to Flurry Analytics. 80% of the time is spent on apps and 20% (31 minutes) is spent on the Web. Games are the largest category in terms of time spent (32%), followed by Facebook with 18%. On iOS, the browser, Safari, comes on the third place, with 12%.
  • The Google Play Store was re – designed to optimize for discovery of entertainment content.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

  • We’re currently wrapping up the Firefox Desktop Q2 & Q3 go to market plans – will share wider starting next week

  • In honor of Poetry Month our social media channels asked our followers for Firefox inspired poems. Some top picks:




Questions, Comments, FYI

  • FYI tree closure Sunday ~1000-1400 PT for SCL3 firewall work bug 862956

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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10-April-2013

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2013-04-10

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Current Releases

Beta (21)

  • FF21.0b2 for Desktop was released yesterday

    • Support for Social multi provider – (Mixi, Cliqz, MSN Now)
  • FF21.0b2 for mobile is with QA and will be released before end of week

Aurora (22)

  • FF22.0a2 – Updates were unthrottled last Friday, looks good

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Firefox 20 General 4.1/5 stars

TLDR: Most users are quite happy with FF 20. There are intermittent reports of slowness, perf, and addon issues.

Positive:

  • No other browser this week has allowed me to log in to my college campus so I could work online to complete my assignments other than Firefox.Firefox is the ONLY BROWSER That Works for me!! :) Thank you..

  • It’s simplicity – no distractions or flashy messages on the front page, and it’s so easy and fast to use
  • I like it better than google. It seems faster and lists places to go on the bottom that I don’t have to type them in. Keep up the good work.
  • i don’t know much about computers but i have been using Firefox for at least six years and find it to be the best for me, its fast and easy to use and for me its just right/ thank you Firefox

Negative:

  • takes lot of RAM. I expect FF to load pretty fast with a very low mem requirements.

  • I like every thing about Firefox except crashes a lot. I like the new features, I can tell it is getting faster and the crashes seem to happen less.

Private browsing: 4.0/5 stars

TLDR: Used regularly 58% of the time, rarely/never 42% of the time. Still a lot of confusion over what it does but almost everyone says positive things.

Positives:

  • I used Chrome for private navigation and Firefox for day to day stuff.

  • Finally i will be able to dump Chrome for good! Hoorray!
  • I like that that now the private browsing function opens up another window leaving the original in tact. In general it looks and feels great, not sure really how helpful i can be.
  • LOVE THIS FEATURE

Some (minor) pushback:

  • You have changed things at the bottom of tools, and over in File you put in a New Private Window. I liked tools just the way it was and did not know that you were going to make this drastic change. I have been trying to back to version 18 or 19 to get tools back the way it was. I would be happy if you could put me back to tools the way it was. Enough said……….

  • I am still on the fence about the changes to “Private browsing”. I think I might have preferred the all or none approach before. I don’t understand the reason for the change, but can live with it.

Download Manager: 3.8/5 stars

TLDR: Mostly positive. The negatives are from users that either didn’t see a reason to change the feature or just have suggestions for improving the Download Manager.

Postive:

  • I like it, because it makes it easier than having a separate window just for downloads.

  • Its much easier to use…thank you
  • its about time you guys changed it. the new one is absolutely brilliant!
  • Keep on doing what you’re doing. If I can understand it, anybody can. Thx Firefox ;-)


Negative:

  • I didn’t see anything wrong with the way it was.

  • Did it NEED to be changed?
  • May just have to get used to it. Old ways sometimes die hard :)


Feature Suggestions:

  • There needs to be a button to quickly clear the recently downloaded files, not just through the “Show all downloads” window.

  • I’d like it more if you added a pause/resume button to the left of the open containing folder button
  • It only shows bar & remaining, I will very much love it if it will show the download speed in first click.

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Google

  • Google forked WebKit creating a new engine called Blink. While Google is able to remove “7 build systems, more than 7,000 files and 4.5 million lines”, the WebKit community is also cleaning house.

  • Chrome 27 Beta was released. Web content appears 5% faster, the Chromium team now uses benchmarks from webpagetest.org in their testing, a “simple, elegant user interface” for month, week, and date <input> types, live, low-latency audio support for the Web Audio API, the Sync FileSystem API for Chrome Apps, and other improvements.
  • Chrome now has a regularly-updated, detailed, feature dashboard for web platform work.
  • Chrome for Android now syncs passwords and autofill entries for logged-in users.
  • In likely effort to better support emerging markets with poorer bandwidth, select videos on YouTube are now available at a 144p pixel video resolution

Microsoft

  • Microsoft released [www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238278/Microsoft_takes_new_Scroogled_shot_at_Google another attack] in its “Scroogled” campaign, describing how the Google Play store passes users’ personal information to app developers.

Mobile

  • Facebook Home was released.

    • An app that extends into a whole phone experience, similar to a launcher, but with deep social integration, the product will be pre – installed on the HTC First.

    • It is available to install on a limited number of high – end devices (HTC One X, Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Galaxy Note II).
    • Analysts estimate that Facebook Home is available to 10 – 15% of the current Android install base and with added support for Android 4 and later it can have an addressable base of over 50% of Android. Facebook’s current mobile user base was 29% on iOS and 38% on Android in December 2012, so analysts estimate that Home will be available to 20 – 25% of the current Facebook mobile user base and assuming Android v4 support it could reach 45 – 50%.
  • Microsoft, Nokia, and a number of top developers have filed a formal complaint to the European Union against Google’s use of its apps in Android. The accusation is of using Android ” as a deceptive way to build advantages for key Google apps in 70 percent of the smartphones shipped today”. This comes at a time when the European Union is in the final stages of an inquiry into the search offering of the company.
  • New version distribution numbers for Android put Gingerbread at 39.8%, Ice Cream Sandwich at 29.3% and Jelly Bean at 25%. The next version of Android, Key Lime Pie, is expected to be unveiled at Google I/O in May.
  • Today, an average US consumer spends 2 hours and 38 min a day on a phone or tablet, according to Flurry Analytics. 80% of the time is spent on apps and 20% (31 minutes) is spent on the Web. Games are the largest category in terms of time spent (32%), followed by Facebook with 18%. On iOS, the browser, Safari, comes on the third place, with 12%.
  • The Google Play Store was re – designed to optimize for discovery of entertainment content.

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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3-April-2013

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2013-04-03

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Current Releases

Beta (21)

Aurora (22)

  • FF22.0a2 will be enabled before the end of the week

Nightly (23)

  • Nightly is now FF23 as of 4/1

Firefox Metro

Iteration Summary

  • Total Work:

    • 5 existing feature changes.

    • 14 existing feature defects.
    • 9 new features.
  • Completed Work: 15%

    • 2 existing feature change.

    • 1 existing feature defects.
    • 3 new features
  • Remaining Work: 85%

    • 3 existing feature changes.

    • 13 existing feature defects.
    • 6 new features.

Work Details

ID WORK STATUS
831918 Story – Pin, Unpin, Hide, and Restore a Top Site ASSIGNED
833182 Story – Updating Firefox ASSIGNED
836791 Story – Junior-style back and new tab overlay buttons ASSIGNED
841228 Defect – Hover state on buttons (like the bookmark star) persists after you tap the button ASSIGNED
842639 Story – watch and listen to video and audio ASSIGNED
845484 Story – Choose types of private data to clear in the options flyout RESOLVED-FIXED
846275 Defect – On first install win8 prompt does not have firefox listed ASSIGNED
846422 Change – Context menu overlays flyouts RESOLVED-FIXED
848155 Change – Add Colored Bar with Text to Bottom of Topsites Thumbnails ASSIGNED
848594 Story – Dragging the starting selection monocle to the left in a scrollable text input with selection doesn’t work RESOLVED-VERIFIED
850413 Story – Repositioning content for skb display ASSIGNED
850673 Defect – Double clicking Next in Find bar selects and displays grippers for next selectable instance RESOLVED-FIXED
850737 Story – Smoothly scroll the Firefox Start screen ASSIGNED
851592 Change – allow user to touch empty space in Firefox Start screen to dismiss url info bar ASSIGNED
852014 Defect – Issues downloading and installing msi ASSIGNED
852805 Defect – Adding “Enter” shortcut while using search (CTRL + F) ASSIGNED
854072 Defect – Press and hold on empty space brings up nonsensical context menu options ASSIGNED
854269 Defect – “Pin” still selected when pressing “Back” or “Forward” buttons ASSIGNED
854271 Defect: about: image does not display and link 404s ASSIGNED
854274 Defect – Showing the “Tab Dock” when creating new tabs using “+” button ASSIGNED
854881 Change – Remove Master Password Support RESOLVED-FIXED
855090 Story – Move mochitests into a sub dir under browser/metro/base/tests RESOLVED-FIXED
855417 Defect – Tap on an empty text input places caret selection monocle at the top of the screen ASSIGNED
855578 Change – Leaving website error message should appear modal ASSIGNED
855581 Defect – New tab created if you receive “Leave Page” error and only a single tab is present ASSIGNED
855590 Defect – Start page does not refresh app bar Star button state ASSIGNED
855677 Defect – “Undefined” displayed instead of “New Tab” in tab title when restarting with show tabs from last time RESOLVED-FIXED
856202 Defect – can’t download nightly full installer ASSIGNED

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

Beta (21)

Fx21 Beta 1 is currently being qualified: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/21/Beta/1

  • Web Content Fonts

  • Continued support for Distribution Files (themes, bookmarks, pinned sites)
  • Incremental HTML5 compat improvements

Aurora (22)

  • Dynamic Toolbar <== continuing to land improvements

  • NFC Support
  • Continued Improvements to UI
  • Packaged Apps Support <== focus is getting this to a testable state

Nightly (23)

  • Moar HTML5 APIs (Web Audio): Web Audio was enabled on Nightlies. This bumps our HTML5 score to 431

  • JavaScript Support: OdinMonkey support landed in our x86 Nightly and should also land soon in our ARM Nightlies. IonMonkey support landed for ARMv6 and was enabled in bug 855839 and should be in the april 03 nightly

Services

Firefox Health Report

  • FHR is now live with the initial user-facing report on Nightly and Aurora, and will be in Beta later this week

  • Work continuing on finding and addressing perf concerns on desktop
  • Android planning and initial exploration is underway

Product Announcements

  • No updates, but should have something to talk about next week.

Developer Tools

  • oh wait, you were expecting Jetpack news? Well this space will continue do that and also bring you tasty tidbits from the *rest* of the devtools team.

  • tracking a single bug in Jetpack for Aurora uplift: bug 816257
  • network monitor is on track to land for Fx23, in review now. bug 855544
  • Q2 Add-ons UX work has started, slated to start landing in FX24 tracking bug planning notes

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Snippets Surveys – We are working with Winston and Mike Kelly to push the snippets surveys for FF 20. They should provide early feedback prior to the full unthrottle. FF 20 Beta had a 4.0+ overall rating, so we expect to see similar results in release. Full report should be available next week.

Emerging Issues

  • Address bar non-responsive – We are tracking an issue reported on SUMO that was not present in the Beta cycle. Seems to be related to roaming profiles on Win Server environments bug 857672

Mobile

The big negative feedback topic for Firefox 20 is the removal of the Quit option (SUMO Article on removing Quit). This was an expected backlash, so we aren’t too worried about it right now.

A few complaints around website rendering, but we have not been able to reproduce. Keeping an eye on that.

Users love the ability to edit their top sites (some coming back to edit their reviews from previous versions) and private browsing, but both features need more visibility.

“Smooth and fast Since the new update Firefox has improved greatly, buttery smooth, this became my default browser. Keep up this good work”

User Experience (Design & Research)

  • [desktop]

    • [General]

    • [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Blake)
      • Supporting implementation — reminder to use the UX Branch to follow along with implementation – get it here
    • [Social API] (Boriss)
      • Doing UI-reviews on bugs that landed last week, making followup mockups as needed

      • Working on remaining wireframes & mockups for future use cases
    • [newtab2] (Boriss)
  • [Firefox Health Report] (Larissa)

    • Firefox Health Report is landing in Beta on Thursday (4/4)!

    • To try it out, go to Help > Health Report
    • Please help us file bugs! FHR bugs
  • [metro] (yuan)

    • A SUMO article about “installing and launch Metro Firefox Nightly. Awaiting for final reviews: link

    • Increase visibility: a solution of accessing “Firefox Nightly” faster under a zoomed-out view of “Apps”: bug 855532
    • Reported bugs about incorrect UI behaviors. To be fixed in Iteration 6.*** bug 857320 – “Pin to start” flyout should be positioned on top of the command
      • bug 856119 – Defect – Web content covered by the tab strip should not be active
  • [android] (ibarlow, zhenshuo)

  • [Behavioral Segmentation Study] (Bill, Lindsay)

    • Quantitative research analysis has wrapped up.

    • We have begun presenting findings to smaller groups, including the main Firefox stakeholders and the UX teams.
    • We are planning on presenting to the larger organization in the coming month.
    • Zhenshuo Fang is designing a set of cards and stickers, summarizing and representing each user type.
  • [Worldwide Firefox Desktop Research]

    • We are finalizing the list of emerging markets in Asia to study for 2013.

    • We are planning on sending out RFPs to potential partner firms to manage research logistics.
  • [other/future]

    • All Mozilla UXers at a UX Summit next week, so stock up now

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Google

Microsoft

  • Microsoft updated their modern.ie website, allowing Mac developers to download Windows 8 / MSIE 10 Parallels virtual machines, and updated their web page scan utility to look for interoperability / compatibility issues. Modern.ie is now also downloadable as a node.js application to run behind firewalls.

Opera

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

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
Retrieved from “?title=Firefox/Planning/2013-04-03&oldid=643769“

28-March-2013

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2013-03-27

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

  • 20.0b7 released yesterday

  • 20.0 RC is built & with QA

Beta (20)

Firefox Metro

Iteration Summary

  • Total Iteration Work:

    • 3 existing feature changes.

    • 7 existing feature defects.
    • 9 new features.
  • Currently Completed: 65%

    • 2 existing feature change.

    • 7 existing feature defects.
    • 5 new features
  • Remaining Work: 35%

    • 1 existing feature changes.

    • 0 existing feature defects.
    • 4 new features.

Work Details

View in Bugzilla

ID WORK STATUS
848155 Change – Add Colored Bar with Text to Bottom of Topsites Thumbnails INCOMPLETE – Iteration #5 Carry Over
846365 Change – New window opens in desktop Firefox when closing Metro Firefox RESOLVED/FIXED
844954 Defect – Devices that only support DX9 fail to startup in Metro mode RESOLVED/FIXED
851388 Story – Add support for caret selection via touch RESOLVED/FIXED
836791 Story – Junior-style back and new tab overlay buttons INCOMPLETE – Iteration #5 Carry Over
831918 Story – Pin, Unpin, Hide, and Restore a Top Site INCOMPLETE – Iteration #5 Carry Over
850737 Story – Smoothly scroll the Firefox Start screen INCOMPLETE – Iteration #5 Carry Over
831609 Defect – Don’t open the home page when launching Metro Firefox for protocol activation, search activation, file activation, and secondary tiles. RESOLVED/VERIFIED
850398 Defect – popup notification info bar shows again if “Never For This Site” is selected RESOLVED/VERIFIED
849342 Defect – Remember passwords preference does not take effect some times RESOLVED/VERIFIED
831614 Story – Set up Sync for both Firefoxes in desktop Firefox RESOLVED/FIXED
849608 Change – Auto close about, settings, and sync flyout panels on snap view RESOLVED/VERIFIED
849699 Defect – Cannot Select Email/Password Text Boxes on Twitter RESOLVED/VERIFIED
849604 Defect – Settings list is not populated if opened when program starts RESOLVED/VERIFIED
849607 Defect – Sharing in start screen AND if page has no title, should indicate nothing to share instead of error RESOLVED/VERIFIED
845155 Story – NewUI – Location Permission info app bar RESOLVED/VERIFIED
831923 Story – Use the Firefox Start Top Sites tile group in full screen view RESOLVED/VERIFIED
850415 Story – Locate downloaded or saved files using Windows Search RESOLVED/FIXED
845484 Story – Choose types of private data to clear in the options flyout INCOMPLETE – Iteration #5 Carry Over

Iteration Burn Down Chart

media:IT4_BurnDown_03-27.jpg

Firefox Mobile

  • Not shipping 20.0b7 since we’re respinning for bug 854340 so we’ll ship a 20.0b8 mobile-only before end of week

Services

Firefox Health Report

  • Go to beta sign-off later today for desktop Fx21

  • Targeting Fx23 for Android
  • Full user-facing FHR should be live on all branches next week

Product Announcements

  • No updates.

Add-on SDK

Release (1.13.2 -> Firefox 19, 20)

Stabilization (1.14 -> Firefox 20, 21)

Development (Firefox 22)

  • no audible this week

  • shipped 1.14 yesterday, last version to include SDK apis!
  • next new functionality comes in Firefox 22.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Sentiment Report 19 went out last week. We’ve already received a ton of great feedback. If you have anything else, we’d love to hear about it.</br>

Beta feedback for Per Window Private Browsing and the new Download Manager look good. Both have roughly 4 star ratings. We will be running these studies again in Release shortly after launch. We should be able to use this information to create correlations in the future.

Mobile

No Updates

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

  • Overview of plans for the release next week

Questions, Comments, FYI

  • (catlee) funnelcake for new stub installer on beta: are we still running the experiment? any results to share?

    • experiment wrapped on on march 25th as planned

    • preliminary results show that it is no worse than regular full installer

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
Retrieved from “?title=Firefox/Planning/2013-03-27&oldid=641975“

21-March-2013

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2013-03-20

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Beta (20)

  • Fifth week beta has gone to build

  • Looking good for release – biggest issue(s) are with Win 7 update and D2D, QA is doing testing

Firefox Metro

Iteration Summary

  • Total Iteration Work:

    • 3 existing feature changes.

    • 7 existing feature defects.
    • 8 new features.
  • Currently Completed:

    • 1 existing feature change.

    • 6 existing feature defects.
    • 3 new features
  • Remaining Work:

    • 2 existing feature changes.

    • 1 existing feature defects.
    • 5 new features.

Work Details

View in Bugzilla

ID WORK STATUS
848155 Change – Add Colored Bar with Text to Bottom of Topsites Thumbnails ASSIGNED
846365 Change – New window opens in desktop Firefox when closing Metro Firefox ASSIGNED
844954 Defect – Devices that only support DX9 fail to startup in Metro mode ASSIGNED
851388 Story – Add support for caret selection via touch ASSIGNED
831610 Story – Import browsing data from IE and Chrome ASSIGNED
836791 Story – Junior-style back and new tab overlay buttons ASSIGNED
831918 Story – Pin, Unpin, Hide, and Restore a Top Site ASSIGNED
850737 Story – Smoothly scroll the Firefox Start screen ASSIGNED
831609 Defect – Don’t open the home page when launching Metro Firefox for protocol activation, search activation, file activation, and secondary tiles. RESOLVED
850398 Defect – popup notification info bar shows again if “Never For This Site” is selected RESOLVED
849342 Defect – Remember passwords preference does not take effect some times RESOLVED
831614 Story – Set up Sync for both Firefoxes in desktop Firefox RESOLVED
849608 Change – Auto close about, settings, and sync flyout panels on snap view VERIFIED
849699 Defect – Cannot Select Email/Password Text Boxes on Twitter VERIFIED
849604 Defect – Settings list is not populated if opened when program starts VERIFIED
849607 Defect – Sharing in start screen AND if page has no title, should indicate nothing to share instead of error VERIFIED
845155 Story – NewUI – Location Permission info app bar VERIFIED
831923 Story – Use the Firefox Start Top Sites tile group in full screen view VERIFIED

Iteration Burn Down Chart

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

Planning for Q2 and Beyond is Underway

Beta (20)

  • Thank you Necko team for helping us get this fix ready in time for Beta Uplift: Bug 832942 – Searches to Google.com over SSL cause OOM error page on ARMv6 builds

  • We also backed out the mini-app mode button for Samsung tablets until we have more feedback that the feature yields acceptable behavior for users bug 842911
  • A fix for was also uplifted bug 827208 – Tabs tray button hit area is too wide
  • We shipped Beta 5 to Google Play Last week (version bump due to chem spill): https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/20/Beta/5
  • Beta 6 qualification will be underway once we have a build avail: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/20/Beta/6

Aurora (21)

Nightly (22)

  • Two HTML5 features landed: HTML5 <input type=”range”> and Web Notifications. We got a bump on html5test.com for the range control, but the notifications are blocked on bad testing code. David Baron has a pull request to fix html5test.

  • Blue Tooth Support Landed thanks to a contributor at Plantronics
  • We are working on fixing webapps in nightly bug 844895
  • Dynamic Toolbar is now enabled by default; we are evaluating to be sure it’s good before the merge to Aurora on 04/01
  • Check out the nightly Twitter Account for up-to-the-minute status on all of the fabulous: https://twitter.com/FennecNightly/

Add-on SDK

Release (1.13.2 -> Firefox 19, 20)

Stabilization (1.14 -> Firefox 20, 21)

Development (Firefox 22)

User Experience (Research and Design)

Sorry! No update ready at press time. Will add later.

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

  • Coming later today

Mobile

  • Google is rumoured to be unifying its communications services. Voice and messaging products like GChat, Google Voice, Talk, might be integrated into a Babber name. The announcement is expected to be made at Google I/O in May.
  • Samsung revealed the new Galaxy S4, expected in market in Q2. Most differentiating feature is the capability to sense so – called “air gestures”, which are made by hovering the finger above the screen, rather than touching it. Also of interest the eye tracking capability. Other specs include a 5 – inch screen, a faster processor (1.9 GHz quad – core or 1.6 GHz octa – core) in variants of the Qualcomm Snapdragon and the Samsung Exynos series, a bigger camera (13 MP).
  • Google removed AdBlock Plus from the Google Play Store. The developer still has the app available on its website and will add it to alternative stores. Existing users can continue to use the service, but will not receive updates from the Android store.
  • IM app Cubie shares how they got to be featured in the Google Play Store. “When Google contacted them, they had already satisfied three of Google’s top four criteria: an app that competes globally, a high consistent star rating, favorable user comments, and design criteria. For the final aspect, Cubie had to adapt to Google’s requested design restrictions before being let on the featured section of the Play store.” “Before we got on Google Play, our total downloads across iOS and Android were averaging between 15,000 to 20,000 downloads per day. After being featured on Google Play, we were getting over 50,000 downloads per day on Android alone.”
  • Amazon to start carrier billing partnership with Bango this year, signaling more interest from the company in the phone segment, as carrier connectivity is not as prevalent on tablets. Rumours are around more push for the Amazon Android app store and a possible Amazon phone.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

  • Working on a Private Browsing move communication plan

  • Engagement team in midst of Q2/Q3 program planning
  • Social API multi-provider landing in Firefox 21 – soft launch to test the API

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
Retrieved from “?title=Firefox/Planning/2013-03-20&oldid=639566“

14-March-2013

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2013-03-13

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Current Releases

  • 19.0.2 was released across all three platforms last Thursday within 24 hours of the Pwn2Own exploit being announced

  • On Monday 3/18, we’re going to be CTPing unsupported versions of Flash 11.0-11.2 (bug 850734)
  • CTPing of the latest vulnerable Silverlight and Adobe Reader versions is on its way as well

Beta (20)

  • FF20.0b5 (the beta for our fourth week) will be going to build today, released before the end of the week

  • Stub installer experiment will be running for 2 days, twice over the next ~1wk

Aurora (21)

  • FHR is now enabled on Aurora, in case this wasn’t called out in this meeting yet

Firefox Metro

Forecast Production Schedule

  • With the completion of Iteration #3 we have been able to develop an initial production forecast – the Expected Scenario.

  • The forecast is based only on data from the previous three iterations.
  • At the conclusion of each iteration, the production forecast will be updated to reflect the current state of the project.
  • At the conclusion of Iteration #6 there will be enough data to develop the Best Case and Worst Case development scenarios.
  • Current total project story points: 824

  • Project story points completed to date: 95
  • Current Team Velocity: 32
  • Forecasted number of story points remaining to complete the project: 729
  • Forecasted number of iterations remaining to complete the project: 24
  • Forecasted date for completion of development: May 14, 2014

Overall Project Performance

  • From Iterations #1 – #3:

    • Total Points Completed: 95

    • Total Stories Closed: 21
    • Team Point Velocity: 32 per iteration
    • Average Story Closure Rate: 7 per iteration
    • Average Point Closure Rate: 33% per iteration
    • Scope Change (Defects and Changes): TBD points over 20 stories
  • Story Backlog: 58 stories ready for upcoming iterations.

  • Legacy Backlog: 3 stories remaining for QA testing.
  • On Hold Backlog: 13 stories remaining for Product Manager clarification before being moved into Story Backlog.
  • Planning Backlog: 0 stories for Team to review, relate to work items and assign point values.

Current Iteration Performance

  • Total value of iteration story points committed to: 69

  • Total value of iteration story points completed: 33
  • Completion Rate = 47%
  • Total number of iteration stories committed to: 14

  • Total number of iteration stories completed: 10
  • Completion Rate = 71%
  • Number of new Change Stories: 9 points over 3 stories

  • Number of new Defect Stories: 13 points over 6 stories
  • Iteration Velocity: 33

Iteration Performance History

Iteration #1
  • Iteration Points

    • Committed = 102

    • Completed = 30
    • Completion Rate = 29%
  • Iteration Stories
    • Committed = 13

    • Completed = 5
    • Completion Rate = 38%
  • Scope Change
    • New Defects Generated = 0

    • New Changes Generated = 3 points over 1 story
Iteration #2
  • Iteration Points

    • Committed = 110

    • Completed = 32
    • Completion Rate = 29%
  • Iteration Stories
    • Committed = 14

    • Completed = 6
    • Completion Rate = 42%
  • Scope Change
    • New Defects Generated = 4 points over 2 stories

    • New Changes Generated = 10 points over 4 stories

Upcoming Iteration

Firefox Mobile

Beta (20)

Aurora (21)

  • Recent uplift requests with patches ready to go include:

    • bug 823285 – Private browsing downloads not cleared from Android notification bar

    • bug 847849 – Hostname in site settings dialog is misaligned

Nightly (22)

Help wanted: take nightly for a spin and file bug/issues you find, we want this enhancement to be great!

Services

Firefox Health Report

Product Announcements

  • No updates.

Add-on SDK

Release (1.13.2 -> Firefox 19, 20)

Stabilization (1.14 -> Firefox 20, 21)

Development (Firefox 22)

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Feedback: Feedback for 19 is stable. At this point we have no major fires. We are preparing for latest CTP blocks, but are not expecting any issues.
Sentiment Report: We are working on the Firefox 19 Sentiment Report this week. It should be available Friday.

Mobile

Ditto

User Experience (Design & Research)

  • [desktop]

    • [General]

    • [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Blake)
      • reminder to use the UX Branch to follow along with implementation – get it here
    • [Social API] (Boriss)
    • [newtab2] (Boriss, Blake)
      • Finalizing v1 desktop design doc this week and finishing the prototype for testing

      • Digitizing settings panel for implementation** Updating design document to include settings panel, first/experienced/new user design, updates for in-content design
    • [GuM/webRTC] (Boriss)
      • Tracking bugs revealed by first nightly landing, making mockups as needed

      • Sketching how camera button in toolbar supports social panels (future)
  • [android] (ibarlow)

    • Dynamic Toolbar (AKA toolbar scrolls off the top) is landed (bug 716403 and is about to be turned on in Nightly (bug 846772). Please try it and get back to us with your thoughts — there are still some rough edges to sand down.

    • Last week
      • Work Week, lots of planning

      • Some little (but awesome) UI polish bugs in progress
    • This week
      • UX planning and prioritizing

      • FirstRun UX
      • New about:home/awesomebar
      • New Settings IA

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Google

Microsoft

Tizen

WebKit

Security

Mobile

  • Andy Rubin is stepping down from leading Android. Sundar Pichai will take over, alongside running Chrome and Apps at Google.

  • Opera put the beta for its Webkit – based version in the Google Play Store. It has a 3.9 / 5 star rating and under Opera Mobile (4.5 stars). Features promoted in the first – run experience are: off – road mode (switcher to proxy browsing), Speed Dial and Discover (content recommendation engine). The overall performance is good and smooth. The Discover feature gathers news based on location, the default one was the United States, even though I wasn’t in the US when I installed it. The Settings menu is in the upper right corner and has a counter for data savings when enabling Off – Road Mode, in Bytes and %s.
  • Opera re – organized its advertisement business into one subsidiary called Opera Mediaworks. The re-organization will allow easier evaluation of the company, making potential acquisition talks easier. This comes one month after its founder sold shares to reduce its stake to only 5.18%.
  • Chrome Beta for Android includes an experimental feature for proxy – browsing. Google claims it reduces data usage by 50%.
  • New Android version distribution numbers: Gingerbread (more than 2 years old) at over 40% of the market, followed by ICS (more than 1 year old) at 29% and Jelly Bean (15%). A new version of Android expected at Google I/O in May.
  • Specs of a rumoured new Facebook phone produced by HTC surfaced. It’s a mid – range device, with dual – core 1.5 GHZ Qualcomm processor, 1 GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, running on Jelly Bean. Launch is expected this spring for the US.
  • Apple share in India spikes because of a new distribution model they employed. Instead of relying on own retail stores or carrier distribution they worked with small retail places and creating amortized payment plans to incentivize acquisition.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Actions this week

Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Planning/2013-03-13“

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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