Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2014-03-12

13-March-2014

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

[AT RISK] ~~bug 875750 – Implement <input type=”color”>: Android widget/color picker~~ <==backed out
[ON TRACK] bug 768667 – Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
[ON TRACK] bug 852608 – Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel=”search”>
[ON TRACK] bug 943475 – Predictive lookup for awesomebar entries
[ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
[ON TRACK] Background Thread Hang Reporting bug 932865
[ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et), bug 946204

Looking good, note *no* new locale support contrary to plan of record. Translations are complete just not productized. Fx30, Fx31 are chock full
Go/No Go for Synth APK Support for Apps, we’re making sure we feel good about going to beta: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fxmarketplaceGONOGO
We are going to do some guerilla sync testing now that clock skew issues shouldn’t be causing failures, stay tuned

See the list for nightly, we’re consolidating the Hub feaures, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap#Firefox_30_.28Nightly.29

Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web! [1] 25 years ago, the draft for the Web was completed, resulting later in browsers which became the killer app of the Internet [2] and Mozilla has been part of that story. [3]

Chrome Web Store will permit Themes, Extensions and Packaged Apps to be sold, and the latter two can be offered as free trial. [4] Meanwhile, Google’s new policy automatically disabling extensions downloaded from sources other than the Chrome Web Store [5] has been receiving some criticism [6] although unlikely to affect the policy to limit such extensions to dev and canary channel builds and enterprise users.

Google is expected to unveil plans for its wearable-centric platform and SDK later this month [7] aligned with it’s work with LG in this space. [8] Meanwhile, Chromecast sales crossed into the millions in the US [9] and will be expanding to more countries while the Chromecast SDK [10] has already been utilized to build some already popular apps [11] even as competition emerges. [12]

With only 4 weeks to go before 488 million [13] XP machines, or 30% of all computers on the Internet, lose support from Microsoft and infection rates expected at 66%, [14] 49% of computers in China are still using XP with many never having been updated. [15] The US advises consumers to not use Internet Explorer on Windows XP machines. [16] as IE versions on XP receive their final patches before April 15th. [17]

Heads down focused on Australis launch. Specifically a social sharing component not unlike Glow 1.0.
Beta launch plans: the tour moves to Beta and we’ll be doing outreach to the folks in our Beta channels (newsletter, snippets, etc) + press outreach.

Planning Meeting Details

Video/Teleconference Details – NEW