User:Dria/Fennec roadmap workspace

On deck

Note: The following projects are under investigation and not currently targeted for any active release. Further concepting, validation and experimentation are still required.

Engineering WIP, not yet targeted to a release

• P1 API: Push notifications
• P1 API: Contacts <== Disabled, will require permissions bump
• P1 Second screen: Chromecast support
• P1 Shumway
• P1 Dynamic snippets add-on
• P1 API: Web activities
• P2 Gecko Webview phase 1
• P3 Geolocation services inc opt-in menu item requiring permissions bump
• P3 Reflow on zoom (double tap) by default
• P1 Added locale: Indonesian (id)
• Added locale: Lithuanian (lt)
• Added locale: Hebrew (he) Dependent on RTL support
• Added locale: Arabic (ar) Dependent on RTL support

NEW FUNNEL: P1 ITEMS

• Service integration: My List
• Service integration: Downloads
• Screencasting: Project to second screen
• Quickshare: Multiple quickshare buttons
• Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• My List: Add other media types
• My List: Allow users to filter by media type
• My List: Allow users to create multiple lists
• M-commerce: Mobile wallet for form-filling
• Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data
• Tablet refresh: Rethink tab experience on tablet (UX to define)
• Async subframe scrolling (platform)
• Kid browsing
• My List: Enable offline access on this device
• Quickshare: Contexts
• Quickshare: Updating context defaults based on user habits
• My List: Sync read-state and location
• My List: Sync multiple lists when available
• Screencasting: Chromecast support
• Screencasting: Roku support
• Webapp discovery: Widget for promoting featured webapps from marketplace
• Webapp discovery: Better marketplace discovery and promotion
• My List: Auto-play video and audio lists
• My List: Sync offline access across devices
• Added locale: Canadian (en-CA)

NEW FUNNEL: P2 ITEMS

• General sharing improvments
• Service integration: Backup and restore
• Webapp integration: Include content from installed webapps in search results and awesomescreen
• Webapp integration: Register webapps for handling filetypes/actions
• Webapp integration: Enable webapp launching from about:home
• Webapp integration: Enable webapp launching from awesomescreen
• Webapp integration: Facility for webapp content discovery in about:home
• Webapp integration: Facility for including webapp content reminders in about:home
• Webapp integration: Facility for embedding content from webapps in about:home
• Webapp discovery: Suggest webapps based on local user history and other data
• Firefox flavour: Silverfox (needs creative brief and cupcake)
• New Sync (whatever the Identity team needs from us)
• DDG as a built-in search engine
• Ability for add-ons to customize sound effects
• Mobile/Projects/API: Alarm
• WebRTC implementation guidance
• Privileged apps support
• Directional game console navigation
• Set top box optimization

NEW FUNNEL: P3 ITEMS

• Multiple profile support
• Gestures
• API: Gamepad
• API: Bluetooth
• SNAV support
• Firefox flavour: Devfox (needs creative brief and cupcake)
• Firefox flavour: Firefox for Enterprise (needs creative brief and cupcake)
• Non-multilang build localizations
• EOL official Android 2.2 support
• Send to device
• Location-based search engines
• Data bandwidth monitoring
• Data bandwidth optimization (Necko)
• Support for hybrid devices
• About:home - Add-ons can add a page
• First-run UX improvements

LARGER PROJECTS

These needs to be broken down into subfeatures...

• Firefox flavour: Kinderfox
• Firefox Messaging (WebRTC stuff)
• Mobile banking/shopping enhancements (beyond form-fill, tablet focus to start)
• Geckoview productization plan
• "Firefox Hub" experiment (I think?...check w Ian)