Firefox/Planning/2011-05-25

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays – 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde Conference Room
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox 3.6.x/3.5.x/4.0.x

• Triaging nominations for the next 3.6 update
• Snippets for 3.5 EOL will hopefully be live in the next week or so

Firefox 5 (Desktop)

• Firefox 5 is now in beta with >250k users

Firefox 6 (Desktop)

• Firefox 6 just migrated from mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora
  • Updates not happening yet, still shaking things out

• Websockets might ship with a prefix

Firefox 4.0.x (Mobile)

Firefox 5 (Mobile)

• Launched Firefox 5 Beta 2 last week
• Will need a Beta 3 for three important bug fixes (branching this Friday)
  • Looking to land an Android crasher that has baked on trunk for a few days
  • Planning to sim-build and sim-ship with Desktop beta 3

Firefox 6 (Mobile)

• Migrated from mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora
• Started the process of re-align timelines of features to Fx7

Firefox Sync

• Pushed discoverability feature into aurora.

Add-on Builder 0.9.5

• Freeze for last round of minor features is this Friday
• 0.9.6 will be the beta release
  • focus on hardening and polish
  • some changes may be required for compatibility with SDK final

Add-on SDK 1.0RC1

• freezes today
• much work landed, a few important items outstanding
• may be delayed a few days

Input 4.0

• ETA: Tomorrow
  • Fancier submission methods on mobile.
  • Device info per opinion for those searching under the Mobile product.

• Notes:
  • We released Input 3.5 last week
  • Working with Metrics on augmenting their analysis with Input data over every channel of the rapid release process
  • Some issues around the dashboard understanding the difference in UA with the new channels process. We’re working on bettering the instrumentation and expect an update when a solution is close to being ready. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us in #input in irc.mozilla.org.

Feedback Summary

Firefox 4 feedback

• PDFs don’t work Bug 613756, bug 642454, Bug 648511
• Extensions (mainly IDM and error messages)
• UI changes (Back/foward buttons, refresh buttons, status bar)
• Saving tabs (or loss thereof) see bug 658337

Beta feedback

• Problems with youtube usage in general
  • Unresponsive, slow
  • Not loading
  • Can’t use controls
  • Bug 659119
• Facebook games
  • Not loading ie: poker, cityville.
• Google docs
  • A couple of crashes when editing, intermittent – windows users only
  • Bug 659120
• Some extension issues being reported ie: toolbars.
  • Some feedback that add-on compatibility reporter is not compatible.
  • Lots of incompatible extensions
  • Bug 659176

• Problems we know about but are tracking
  • Netflix – bug 650141 (should be fixed)
  • Channel switcher – Bug 652016 and Bug 659178
  • PDFs – Bug 613756, bug 642454, Bug 648511
  • Apple.com – bug 657469

Press & Public Reactions

• Firefox 5 beta arrives for desktop and Android
• Firefox 5 beta lands right on schedule
• Rapid-release idea spreads to Firefox 5 beta
• What’s Inside Mozilla’s Firefox 5 Beta?
• Mozilla delivers Firefox 5 beta on schedule
• Firefox for Android beta adds ‘Do Not Track’

Questions and Concerns

• Will Add-on Builder sim-ship with Add-on SDK 1.0 and Firefox 5? No, it’ll be Beta because it’s one step behind SDK but it will be quite usable. SDK is a component of the Firefox 5 launch. Builder will be there to support it in a solid Beta form.

• Will Add-on SDK 1.0 support Mobile Firefox? No, that’s a priority for the second half of the year but SDK 1.0 is targeting Firefox 5 Desktop.

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