Mobile/Roadmap

Last updated: 2013/04/16

Strategy: Four Pillars

Partnership opportunities

Work to make Firefox increasingly attractive for pre-installation and alternate distribution partners and channels.

Innovate to Differentiate

Build on our core strengths -- and ensure we have the necessary foundations in place -- to develop new consumer-led differentiators.

Developer Ecosystem

Support the larger Firefox ecosystem and create world-class developer tools and support.

State of Good Repair

Continually improve our existing code and user experience to the highest possible degree of polish and performance.

Q2 2013

Firefox 20: Private & Personal (shipped)

Schedule

• Shipped to GA on Apr 2, 2013

Features

• Per-tab private browsing
• ARMv6 expanded support: 600MHz, 384 MB, QVGA
• about:home pinning & unpinning
• Media decoding (H.264 on GB & HC)

Firefox 21: Foundations

Schedule

• Tracking Fx21
  • Nightly: Jan 7, 2013
  • Aurora: Feb 18, 2013
  • Beta: Apr 1, 2013
  • Release: May 14, 2013

Features

• [ON TRACK] Distribution files (theme, bookmarks, pinned sites)
• [ON TRACK] HTML5 compatibility roll-up
• [ON TRACK] New web content font

Firefox 22: Simple Pleasures

Schedule

• Tracking Fx22
  • Nightly: Feb 18, 2013
  • Aurora: Apr 1, 2013
  • Beta: May 13, 2013
  • Release: Jun 25, 2013

Features

• [AT RISK] Reflow on zoom (double tap) by default
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic URL bar
• [PLANNED] Added locale: Turkish
• [PLANNED] Added locales: Hungarian & Slovak
• State of good repair:
  • [PROPOSED] ANR
  • [PROPOSED] New tab UI

Q2 Design work

April

• Search engine changes
• about:home redesign
• Reader improvements & enhancements
• Settings UI clean-up
• PiCL ("Profiles in the Cloud")
• Set Top Box optimization & directional navigation

May

• First-run UX
• Packaged and privileged apps UI
• Mobile/Projects/WebRTC implementation guidance
• PiCL
• Shumway v1

June

• Reader integration into PiCL
• Send to device
• Profile support
• PDF.js support

Q2 Investigation/Exploration

• PiCL
• Dynamic Snippets
• Shumway
• Directional navigation
• Performance

Q3 2013

Firefox 23: Real Media

Schedule

• Tracking Fx23
  • Nightly: Apr 1, 2013
  • Aurora: May 13, 2013
  • Beta: Jun 24, 2013
  • Release: Aug 6, 2013

Features

• NFC bump for tab sharing
• WebRTC platform support, preffed off
• [PLANNED] Firefox Health Report
• [PLANNED] Changeable search engine default
• [PLANNED] Add/remove search engines
• [PLANNED] RSS/Atom feed handling
• [PLANNED] Set Top Box optimization
• [PLANNED] Directional game console navigation
• [PLANNED] Dynamic Snippets

Firefox 24: Embracing the Ecosystem

Schedule

• Tracking Fx24
  • Nightly: May 13, 2013
  • Aurora: Jun 24, 2013
  • Beta: Aug 5, 2013
  • Release: Sep 24, 2013

Features

• [PLANNED] Packaged apps support
• [PLANNED] APIs: Push, WebActivities, Contacts
• [PLANNED] SkiaGL improvement
• [PROPOSED] APIs: Payments, Alarm
• [PROPOSED] Location-based search engines
• [PROPOSED] Shumway: generic video player
• [PROPOSED] about:home redesign
• [PROPOSED] Reader mode improvements
• [PROPOSED] Profile support for alternate browser configurations
• [PROPOSED] Cloud API
• [PROPOSED] Change default search engine for zh-CN

Q3 Design work

July

• tbd

August

• tbd

September

• tbd

Q3 Investigation/Exploration

• Alternate browser configurations
• Ability to lock add-ons
• Benchmarking
• Multi-screen usage
• L10N multi-locale build

Q4 2013

Firefox 25: TBD

Schedule

• Tracking Fx25
  • Nightly: Jun 24, 2013
  • Aurora: Aug 5, 2013
  • Beta: Sep 23, 2013
  • Release: Nov 5, 2013

Features

• [PROPOSED] Priveleged apps support
• [PROPOSED] L10N multi-locale build
• [PROPOSED] Shumway v2

Firefox 26: TBD

Schedule

• Tracking Fx26
  • Nightly: Aug 5, 2013
  • Aurora: Sep 23, 2013
  • Beta: Nov 4, 2013
  • Release: Dec 18, 2013

Features

• [PROPOSED] Spatial Navigation (SNAV)
• [PROPOSED] Data bandwidth optimization (Necko)

Q4 Design work

October

• tbd

November

• tbd

December

• tbd

Q4 Investigation/Exploration

• TBD

About this roadmap

This is the current working roadmap for Firefox for Android. It is a living document and will be updated regularly (at least monthly, and likely more often than that). If you have any questions about anything here, please contact Karen Rudnitski ("kar" in IRC) or Deb Richardson ("dria").

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