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===Apps===
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* Firefox Desktop 14 (Aurora) - landed  
* Firefox Desktop 14 (Aurora) - landed  
** Looking to perhaps back out this functionality - TBD Bug number
** Looking to perhaps back out this functionality - {{bug|750936}}
** Native Install
** Native Install
** Chromeless launch of apps
** Chromeless launch of apps

Revision as of 17:07, 2 May 2012

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Planning Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 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# 95312 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
  • Vidyo Room: Warp Core
  • Vidyo Guest URL
REMEMBER
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Actions from Last Week

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Kilimanjaro

Firefox Desktop

Release (3.6, 11, 10esr)

Beta (12)

Aurora (13)

Nightly (14)

Firefox Mobile

Services

Firefox Sync

Apps In the Cloud Server

Add-on SDK

Release (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)

  • All is well

Stabilization (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)

  • Released 1.7b2 last week no new beta this week
  • On track to release 15 May 2012

Development (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)

Identity

Apps

  • Firefox Desktop 14 (Aurora) - landed
    • Looking to perhaps back out this functionality - bug 750936
    • Native Install
    • Chromeless launch of apps
  • Firefox Desktop 15 (Nightly)
    • Working on fixing bugs - mostly fit and polish to fit Kilimanjaro requirements
    • Defining Hometab promotion of apps
    • Defining Newtab launchpad of apps
  • Firefox Mobile 15 (Nightly) - in progress
    • Work started in Fx14 continues in 15.
    • Proposed marketplace bundling with Fennec is an open issue. See bug 738545
  • Apps in the Cloud
    • AITC client continues
    • AITC Server - See status above in Services

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Mobile

UX & User Research

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Google

  • The Google Security team made a post describing ClusterFuzz, their cluster of machines that perform 50 million fuzz tests per day on the latest Chromium builds. The entire pipeline from managing test cases to verifying fixes is automated.
  • A new version of Google's Javascript engine, V8, features a new algorithm that selects between different optimization approaches, resulting in a 25% improvement in performance on SunSpider tests.
  • Google Drive launched, with some initial integration into ChromeOS and with much more planned. Initial integration arrived in the ChromeOS dev channel this week. Google applies all its search tools, including image recognition to data that is uploaded to Drive.

Microsoft

Opera

Privacy

  • Thomas Roessler of the W3C posted a good summary of the current state of the Do Not Track initiative at the W3C, European and US levels.

Research In Motion

  • RIM released their WebWorks SDK for Blackberry 10, which "allows web developers to create first class BlackBerry applications using familiar web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript".
  • Sencha performed an in-depth review of the HTML5 support on the latest version of the Blackberry playbook, characterizing its support as "excellent".

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.


  • Opera released stats on Opera Mini and Mobile user behaviour
  • Preliminary Q1 results place Samsung as top smartphone producer
  • Kindle Fire estimated to account for over 50% of US Android-based tablet market
  • Rumours about a Facebook phone allegedly produced by HTC surfaced again
  • First Intel phone features 1.6 GHz Atom Z2460 single core CPU, 400 MHz PowerVR SGX 540 GPU, 1 GB of RAM
  • HTC rumoured to be planning manufacture of own set of ARM-based chipsets
  • RIM unveiled developer alpha version of BB OS 10
  • Tizen version 1.0 was released in form of source code and SDK
  • Canonical rumoured to be planning Ubuntu-based mobile devices
  • Usage of TV white spectrum for wireless communications making progress in Cambridge, UK
  • The list of IP-related litigations between Apple and Samsung features 50 lawsuits in 10 countries

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Questions, Comments, FYI

Actions this week

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