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9-January-2014

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2014-01-08

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop & Platform

Current Releases

  • Firefox 26 looks good, no major issues heard after the break.

Beta (27)

  • Firefox 27 Beta 4 for Desktop shipped yesterday (1/7)
  • Firefox 27 Beta 5 for Desktop will go-to-build tomorrow

Nightly (29)

  • Working on a plan for FFA-authenticated sync in FF29. sync-dev should have the biggest details.
    • Quick discussion about how/if we’re going to incorporate this into Australis onboarding experience. Contact your local PMM (lforrest?) or Product manager (Chad or Rob Lord) for more details.
    • Details are still being ironed out. Magic 8 ball says: Reply hazy, ask again (or try sync-dev or PMs as listed above).

Firefox Metro

  • Team working on Iteration #22 until Friday January 17.
  • 10 out of 49 points completed to date for Iteration #22.
  • 8 out of 29 bugs resolved to date for Iteration #21.
  • To date, 23 bugs are blocking our uplift to Beta 28 – View Bug List

ID Summary Status Assigned to Whiteboard
947078 Make the “Include URLs” option for the crash reporter into a checkbox instead of a toggle ASSIGNED ally [beta28] [feature] p=2
957008 Investigation – video position slider doesn’t work for HTML5 videos on Youtube ASSIGNED ally [beta28] [defect] p=2
950241 Takes two tries to start up Firefox in Touch mode ASSIGNED jmathies [leave-open][beta28] [defect] p=2
952989 Sliding in Windows Charm while OSK visible on top of Find App Bar will re-appear when selecting “Options” ASSIGNED jmathies [beta28] [defect] p=1
952993 Screen isn’t wrapping all the way to the top when using the OSK to search for next instance ASSIGNED jmathies [beta28] [defect] p=2
956286 nightly started from taskbar icon doesn’t get startup focus ASSIGNED jmathies [beta28] [defect] p=2
945438 Can’t select menu items with mouse in Google’s div-based select widgets ASSIGNED mbrubeck [beta28] [defect] p=3
952297 Left scroll arrow in the Metro tab strip is visible even when tab strip is not scrollable ASSIGNED mbrubeck [beta28] [defect] p=2
953430 taping on completed download button under about:start produces a blank app bar ASSIGNED mbrubeck [beta28] [defect] p=2
860081 Higher-resolution overlay button icons ASSIGNED mmaslaney [beta28] [feature] p=0
893856 Toast Notifications Image ASSIGNED mmaslaney [beta28] [feature] p=0
950174 Save form data and cookies in Metro session store ASSIGNED msamuel [beta28] [feature] p=5
941124 Recombine all prefs into one file, and implement pref namespaces for all but a whitelist of prefs ASSIGNED netzen [beta28] [feature] p=5
948778 Add vertical rule to tab strip to visually indicate a cut-off point ASSIGNED rsilveira [beta28] [feature] p=2
956741 Load first run on start page for the first 3 tabs ASSIGNED rsilveira [beta28] [feature] p=1
951635 Removing animations from tile swipes in snapped view ASSIGNED sfoster [beta28] [defect] p=1
957010 Investigation – LinkedIn “People You May Know” page does not work in Metro mode ASSIGNED sfoster [beta28] [defect] p=1
957011 Investigation – irrcloud.com not loading properly in win8 touch mode ASSIGNED sfoster [beta28] [defect] p=1
927402 Disabling telemetry through settings still shows “enabled” under about:telemetry ASSIGNED spohl.mozilla.bugs [beta28] [defect] p=2
951402 Infinite recursion and crash in nsSHEntry::GetAnyContentViewer(nsISHEntry**, nsIContentViewer**) in Metro Firefox ASSIGNED tabraldes [beta28] [defect] p=3
943069 Gmail composition text body slides up too far for editing RESOLVED jmathies [beta28] [defect] p=1
943071 Selection monocles aren’t positioned correctly after the browser shifts due to skb display RESOLVED jmathies [beta28] [defect] p=2
944215 OSK not appearing on the first tap under Navigation App Bar (also not dismissing) RESOLVED jmathies [beta28] [defect] p=1
952846 Don’t ship unused PDF.js files in metro installer RESOLVED mbrubeck [beta28] [defect] p=1
905621 Stylize the bad url error page RESOLVED mmaslaney [beta28] [defect] p=0
950917 Pinned tabs lost when going between desktop/win8 touch/desktop mode RESOLVED msamuel [beta28] [defect] p=2
950986 “Windows 8 Touch” (switch to Metro) not appearing in Australis menu panel or customization UI on a Windows 8 tablet RESOLVED msamuel [beta28] [defect] p=2
956368 [session store] Tab Groups lost after switching from desktop to Metro and back RESOLVED msamuel [beta28] [defect] p=2
953012 Opening a new tab using the overlay while a website is loading creates two about:start tabs RESOLVED rsilveira [beta28] [defect] p=1
948139 Add telemetry for switching from Metro to Desktop RESOLVED sfoster [beta28] [feature] p=1
952663 Create tests for expected tab strip behavior RESOLVED sfoster [beta28] [feature] p=1

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

We shipped a 26.0.1 to fix bug 951776 in order to remove graphical corruption when tapping Google search suggestion

General PSA, Two things we are looking into

Rating Dip

We have been investigating a ratings dip that appears to have started around Dec 10th 2013. Ratings dropped by hundredth to 4.39. We received about 42k new ratings in the past couple of weeks vs 10k last month of which only 65% (vs 71%) were 5 stars. The daily average rating for the past month has been fluctuating between 4.23 & 4.56 (vs 4.4 six months ago)Currently, we think this could be related to three main issues:
  1. a Google UX change in the Play Store and
  2. Slow performance on mid to low end devices.
  3. No Flash support on KitKat, http://snorp.net/2013/12/11/flash-on-kitkat.html and bug 935676

The first is not really in our control, but if we can feedback to Google, we probably should. #2 is within our control and we have been working on improving pageload performance. We need to make sure we include mid and low end devices when profiling/testing. Some of the data we have been gathering shows that regions, like Brazil, where we are growing, are the same regions where we are being rated poorly due to performance. Those regions also seem to be using mid to low end devices. The third we may have a solution for, glandium and snorp are investigating.

Crashes Trending up

.2, while 24 and 25 increased to around 1.5-1.6 and now with 26.0 shipped we’re almost getting up to 2.0 again
  1. Top crash is SQLite Database related. The”fix” is based on patches in bug 949639 and bug 949913. We are looking at these in Aurora right now and will uplift if possible
  2. Approval received which should help prior to next release bug 945327, bug 930735, bug 935831
  3. The remaining for Fx27 are pretty well balanced across components http://mzl.la/19QJn1Z 1video/audio, 1graphics:layers, 3 JavaScript Engine, 1DOM, 1Web Audio, 2ImageLib)

Beta (27)

Aurora (28)

Nightly (29)

Attempting to load balance to make this release more sane, we’re getting there and sync is part of that: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap#Firefox_29:_.28Nightly.29

Developer Tools

  • The tracing debugger has landed but is preffed off for the forseeable future. Toggle ‘devtools.debugger.tracer’ to check it out.
  • we now automagically pretty-print minified JS according to some sensible heuristics
  • the theme-apocalypse is still happening, things are getting flatter
  • Add-on Builder is now read-only
  • outbound will be slow until the end of the month

Feedback Summary

No updates. Getting back into the swing of things and working on Australis/Android reports.

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team

Mobile

  • Here is how the device landscape will look like in 2014, according to Gartner.
    • There will be 2.5 billion units shipped throughout the year of PCs, tablets and phones, which is 7.6% higher than 2013.
    • There will be 1.9 billion phones sold, 5 % more than last year.
    • Tablets are growing at a staggering 47% rate, but their number is smaller: 263 million will be shipped in 2014. ** PCs sales are only by very little larger than tablets and they are the only segment that is declining year-over-year (by 7%), with 277 million units forecasted. In 2015, tablets are expected to out sell PCs, with 324 million over 268 million.
    • In terms of operating systems, across all forms factors (PCs, tablets, phones), Android is on top, with 1.1 billion shipments, followed from a distance by Windows with 359 million, and iOS / Mac OS with 344 million. Chrome OS is on 5th place, with a forecasted 1.8 million device sales.
  • Before the holiday season Opera released version 2.0 of Coast, it’s iPad browser. The browser moves the location bar from its traditional place further down and centre of the page. Its start page interface is heavily customised for gesture interactions and allows an unlimited number of 3×3 grids of shortcuts, that can be modified with already opened tabs by swiping them from the edge of the page. Screenshots here.
  • Dolphin released a version of the browser with enhanced privacy controls called Dolphin Zero. They are putting a twist on “Do Not Track” by claiming to shred all user data that is stored while browsing.
  • Google announced the Open Automotive Alliance, an alliance of industry players that has the aim to bring Android to cars. Founding members include Audi, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai and Nvidia.
  • LG launched their first TV that runs WebOS. Minimum system requirements are a 2.2 GHz dual-core CPU and 1.5 GB of RAM. The device promises a more intuitive interface for easier control and a more pleasant experience.
  • South Korea and the European Union are starting to plan for the implementation of 5G networks. The Asian nation is planning to start testing a nationwide network in 2018 and have a commercial service in 2020. The European Commission is starting a 5G Public-Private Partnership at the beginning of 2014 with the charter of researching implementation of greater network speeds. The founding members of the association are Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Solutions and Networks, Orange. Also in Europe, a 5G Innovation Centre is planned with the help of the UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, and backed by industry players such as Telefonica, EE, Vodafone, Huawei, Samsung.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

  • Engagement Team work-week next week in Santa Cruz (Tue – Thur) — we will be offline, working hard planning how to help Firefox reach its 2014 goals
  • Brazil Desktop campaign turning on again now that the ‘airwaves’ have cleared after the holidays

Questions, Comments, FYI

  • FYI – Tree closure this weekend. Could take longer to get code landed / merged. bug 951731

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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