Firefox/Planning/2012-08-08

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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# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

• 14.0.2 JB respin went live in Google play yesterday afternoon PT
• 15.0 beta 4 is going to build today

Firefox Mobile

Release (14)

• 14.02 with JellyBean only crash fixes

Aurora (16)

• explicitly asking for testing on Reader Mode and Web Apps. Please, thank you.

Nightly (17)

• SafeBrowsing is fixed, we're going to test internally for a week before turning it on

Web Compat

• Many Google properties now sending us mobile content.
• Initial Webkit aliasing analysis complete. Summary post coming.

Add-on SDK

Release (1.9 -> Firefox 15, 16)

Stabilization (1.10 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Development (1.11 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Released 1.9 yesterday, working with IT to update Builder to latest version ( it has lagged 2 point releases behind due to resource & co-ordination issues )

Landing progress:

• loader is riding the trains on Fx 16.
• tracking bug: bug 731779
• current status: bug 756542 tracks work on make files to include the SDK modules in Firefox builds.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

• Google Doodle crash getting greater visibility. [1][2] [3]

UX & User Research

• [desktop]
  • [Australis]
    • continued iteration on customization mode interactions (Zhenshuo)
      • What happens when you left click in Customization page - video mockup of five alternatives [MOV]
      • Creating a user-feedback testing plan for the customization mode
    • exploring more feedback and affordances in the design prototype: https://people.mozilla.com/~bwinton/australis/customization/mac/ (bwinton)
      • try hovering over and left-clicking on a tool to add in the customization mode
  • [Social API] (Boriss)
    • minimum acceptable features have been modified slightly, landing in 17 rather than 16.
    • Priority 1 is getting chat landed, UX bugs on the table this week are mostly chat-related problems: overflow, popping in/out, error handling
    • Still some style tweaks needed, especially around chat windows
    • Flyover panels still iffy - it may be possible to implement them, but probably not exactly like mockups. Working with jwas & Shane this week
    • Working with Gavin to solidify notification channel appearance and UX
  • [hometab/newtab] Digitizing concept sketches this week, syncing up with sync and browserID on their status with eye to incorporating in design (Boriss)

• [dev tools] Starting work on "Timeline" tool (Brian Dils)

• [security/privacy] (Larissa)
  • working on "Security and Privacy in Firefox" (SPF) starter design frameworks/imperatives
    • slides: http://people.mozilla.com/~lco/ProjectSPF/Starter%20Frameworks%20and%20Principles%20v1.pdf
    • further reading if interested: https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Lco/FX-Privacy-and-Security-Design-I

• [metro] (yuan)
  • Designing animated tab indicators on Windows 8 UI animated walkthrough (keynote file)

• [android] (ibarlow)
  • Current design work happening on
    • bug 774479 - Feedback solicitation UI
    • bug 771380 - Title bar layout adjustments
    • Couple of web app bugs bug 771915 and bug 778914
    • Possible UI adjustments for ARMV6
    • bug 769683 - Strong first run / feature intro UI
  • Privacy review under way on offering search suggest in the awesomebar (you can see this in nighties) (madhava)
    • Privacy review bug here: bug 775087, [1-25 dev.apps.firefox thread here]

• [other/future]
  • the team had a first session on defining a set of Firefox design values; currently analyzing our first sets of ideas (madhava + whole team)
  • researching experience metrics we can use to assess design success (madhava)
    • this kind of thing - article on designstaff.org

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Apple

• Apple was granted 38 patents related to mobile applications, touch and gesture logic, and mobile wallets, compass calibration, and much more.
• It seems likely that Apple took advantage of the OS X Mountain Lion / Safari 6 launch to kill the Safari web browser for Windows

Google

• Google has improved the security in Chrome's handling of mixed scripting vulnerabilities. The changes will "minimize security dialog fatigue", improve resistance to clickjacking and silently block all mixed script conditions for HSTS-enabled sites.
• The Chrome release channel now includes support for the getUserMedia API. Google also released Sketchbots, a demo of the technology that (surprise!) works only with Chrome
• Extensions built for Chrome can now make use of keyboard shortcuts
• 90% of Chrome Canary/Dev/Beta users now have speculative resource prefetching enabled

Microsoft

• Microsoft sent Windows 8 off to manufacturers, just after learning that they would have to change the name of the "Metro" user interface due to a trademark conflict
• Some screenshots of IE10 for Windows Phone 8 have leaked out, showing a SmartScreen filter, customizable address bar, proxy-based data compression, and per-site cookie blocking
• When users of IE10 first start the browser, they will be able to change the default "Do Not Track" setting in a screen similar to the "browser choice" one Windows is required to display in Europe. This change confirms that Microsoft will go forward with its plans to have DNT enabled by default
• Intel's Ultrabook Symposium was last week, where the chip vendor announced that OEMs will be releasing 40+ Touchscreen Windows 8 Ultrabooks, with designs for another 100 in the pipeline. Prices will start at $699.

Opera

• Opera 12.50 will drop -o- prefix support for CSS transitions, animations, and transforms

W3C

• The W3C announced that Adobe, Google, and Microsoft have provided significant funds to "sponsor more complete W3C staff coverage to achieve Recommendation Status for HTML5 in 2014".

WebKit

• WebKit dropped the "-webkit-" prefix for the Vibration API
• Patrick Muller released weinre, a remote debugger for WebKit Inspector that works with mobile devices

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• Gingerbread still main Android version in market, Jelly Bean at 0.8%

• Developer policy on Android changed to reduce spam

• Privacy Policy field for apps introduced in Google Play Store

• Preloaded YouTube app removed from iOS 6

• Samsung maintains spot as top handset and smartphone vendor by shipments

• More than 200 million people are using Opera Mini and Mobile

• Dual-core processors to reach entry-level smartphone market early 2013

• Perception of privacy on mobile far from reality, according to University of California study

• iPads accounted for 73% of tablet sales in China in Q2

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

• No updates this week

Press

Firefox 14 Worthy Alternative to Safari

The Next Version Of HTTP Is Starting To Look Very SPDY