Firefox/Planning/2012-11-28

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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

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Add-on SDK

Release (1.11 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Stabilization (1.12 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Development (1.13 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Up 2% points in postivie sentiment over 16 at the same point in the release cycle. We had an initial rocky start, but things seem to be leveling out.

General Issues

• Font Issues - Windows users are reporting cleartype preferences are ignored bug 814101.
• TMP - SUMO article instructing users to try dev version. Complaints are going down, but more visibility would help.
• FCKEditor/site issues - User agent change.
• Cookie Exceptions not working in 17 - bug 814554
• Tab Utils - Broken. Author is working on an update.

Social API
Positive:

• I Like FaceBook, chating with friends
• Facebook masenger and I like fast speed in slow connection
• I can now chat on facebook with an "effect" that looks like anti-boss.

Negative

• Firefox just added the facebook capability, this make it so slow!
• The social API is confusing for me as an end-user and I cannot remove Facebook!

Market insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Amazon

• A New York lawyer is "investigating potential claims against Amazon.com for false advertising" regarding the marketing for the Amazon Silk browser shipped with the Kindle Fire series of tablets.

Google

• Google CEO Larry Page reportedly met with the US Federal Trade Commission to try to work out a negotiated settlement regarding a possible consent decree. The company has been accused of using its near-monopoly in search to unfairly support its other businesses.

Microsoft

• Microsoft announced that 40 million Windows 8 licenses had been sold
• The release preview version of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 was released, with DNT defaulted to "on".

Opera

• Opera's Dragonfly tool for web developers has a new Resource Inspector with a "new look and feel".

Security

• There is apparently a zero-day vulnerability in the latest version of Java that is being offered for sale in various criminal web forums. The seller says that "code execution is very reliable, worked on all 7 version [sic] I tested with Firefox and MSIE on Windows 7".

W3C

• The W3C Performance Group had a workshop and posted their current plans, which include further work on timing metrics, efficient script yielding, pre rendering, resource priorities, diagnostics interfaces, asynchronous assured communications from the browser to the server (advertising / analytics "beacons") and display performance.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

Africa

• Africa is source of innovation in the mobile industry due to under-developed infrastructure
• M-Pesa, which handles approx a third of Kenya's GDP, is the showcase of it
• it is a service that uses a SIM-based application, showing the network operators can still play a big role in shaping the market, alongside software vendors
• Other areas such as medical services and agriculture are benefiting from mobile
• Innovation from Africa finds it way to the developed markets

Nokia S40 series

• Nokia Asha series gets a Facebook hardware button
• integrated services on smart-light devices are likely to get more user engagement than on modern operating systems
• Nokia also integrating Slam, a Bluetooth content transfer feature, to cater to relative scarcity of bandwidth in emerging countries
• the S40 series platform has 675 million current users

Rich Communications Suite

• the Rich Communications Suite, under the Joyn brand, will launch nation-wide in Spain
• available through Android apps at first and early 2013 integrated in devices

Chinese hardware vendors

• the Indian government expected to announced whether it will open an investigation into Huawei and ZTE
• this follows a US Congressional report into network equipment of the 2 companies