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 == Gecko ==
-* Electrolysis {E10s)
+* Electrolysis (E10s)
 ** Windowed plugins mostly working (Windows and Linux)
 ** Windowless plugins working on Linux, to work on Windows soon. May have slow performance until work on asynchronous painting is done.
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 ** Have very hacky demos of multi-process browsing
 ** Working on getting Fennec working with multi-process browsing.
-* Joe and GFX?
+* GFX
+** Robert O'Callahan, Jeff Muizelaar and Bas Schouten have been iterating on an API and requirements for a [[Gecko:Layers|Layers API]], akin to Core Animation, that will enable easy hardware acceleration and certain types of animation. We welcome everyone's input.
+** Windows 7 support ({{bug|474052}}) has been coming along well. Aero Peek has landed in 3.6, but Jump Lists and download status in the Windows 7 task bar will have to wait for 3.7.
+** Bas Schouten has been tearing stuff up. In addition to contributing to the Layers API mentioned above, he came up with a proof-of-concept full-screen video implementation using OpenGL ({{bug|510057}}) and has been working on making our font rendering in Windows 7 significantly better by using DirectWrite ({{bug|517642}}).
 * [https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill CrashKill] meetings will continue.  We really dig into details of crashes and people seem to find the in-depth discussions on how to resolve a particular crash useful.
 * Blockers: