Firefox/Planning/2013-11-06

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 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

Firefox Metro

READ ONLY

• Team concluding Iteration #18 on Monday November 8.
• 17 out of 30 Aurora 28 blocking bugs resolved this iteration representing 53 points.
• Profile Sharing Feature - 18 out of 47 points completed - 29 remain for Iterations #19 and #20: View Bugs.
  • Uplift of Profile Sharing to Aurora 28 cannot be determined at this time. First round of QA will begin at the conclusion of Iteration #18.
• To date, 19 bugs in the Backlog are blocking uplift to Aurora 28: View Bugs.
• To date, 14 bugs remaining in Iteration #18 are blocking uplift to Aurora 28: View Bugs.

Full Query

ID	Summary	Priority	Status
801187	Change - Theme tab-modal prompts to look good in Metro	P1	VERIFIED
831910	Story - Use the Auto-Complete Screen	P1	RESOLVED
833192	Story - Hi DPI scaling for full HD screens of 12.5" or smaller	P1	RESOLVED
840855	Defect - Dialogs intermittently fail to accept touch input	P2	RESOLVED
849564	Change - Add a view-source option into the app bar menu	P2	VERIFIED
855434	Story - Non HTML5 specific form elements should work	P1	VERIFIED
886321	Story - APZC metrofx issue tracking	P1	RESOLVED
903426	[l10n] Change - In-content crash reporter prompt	P2	RESOLVED
910223	Story - Firefox Start Transition(s)	P1	VERIFIED
918203	Defect - Several seconds delay before adjusting when transitioning into filled view	P2	VERIFIED
919232	Defect - arrow keys not working in form autofill popup	P2	VERIFIED
922121	Defect - tap-drag on nav bar input invokes scroll of content	P2	RESOLVED
922851	Defect - Moving browser to larger secondary display results in clipping / mis-sizing	P2	RESOLVED
924894	Story - Split prefs files up for Metro and Desktop when running in the same profile	P2	VERIFIED
924911	Story - Profile switching main task: Change View on Desktop feature to be switch to Desktop feature	P2	VERIFIED
924914	Add "Relaunch in Windows 8 Touch (Metro)" feature to Desktop Firefox	P2	RESOLVED
924995	Story - Use same base app name so that it uses the same profile and more	P2	VERIFIED
925457	Defect - Tap that crosses boundary between text field and app bar pushes Firefox Start content up the screen rather than overlaying	P2	RESOLVED
926036	Defect - Long strings in about panel are cut instead of wrapping	P2	VERIFIED
927238	Defect - Dropdowns appear cut off and are not selectable with keyboard shortcuts and flash on/off	P2	VERIFIED
927239	Defect - Context menu items keep highlight after being selected	P2	VERIFIED
928201	Defect - Download app bar displays 'Run' for non-executable content	P2	VERIFIED
929256	Defect - Dragging form select scrolls content	P2	VERIFIED
931115	Defect - Cache dominant color data for start tiles	P2	RESOLVED
931846	Story - Change startup cache location for Metro Firefox	P2	RESOLVED
932664	Story - Link clicks and file activations should open in the currently opened browser no matter which environment	P2	VERIFIED
933580	Defect - Not switching to desktop if Adobe Reader set as default application	P2	VERIFIED
934496	Defect - Progress bar displays when a page starts loading in a background tab	P2	VERIFIED
934750	Defect - Regression: Cross-slide gesture on Start page not working	P2	RESOLVED
934762	Defect - Metro renders squished and mouse/touch events are offset in dual monitor setup when one is HighDPI	P2	RESOLVED
935554	Defect - Navbar displays when a page loads in a background tab	P2	VERIFIED

31 Total; 0 Open (0%); 13 Resolved (41.94%); 18 Verified (58.06%);

Firefox Mobile

Beta (128)

Fx26 (Ships 12/10)

• [ON TRACK] AMO discoverability
• [ON TRACK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for en-US, FR and es-ES
• [AT RISK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for en-GB and de (just en-GB is at risk)
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign <= top issue is getting good traction, bug 933323
• [ON TRACK] search provider management in settings menu
• [ON TRACK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued

Aurora (54)

• [ON TRACK] Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296
• [ON TRACK] Marketplace discoverability - simple UI polish
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475
• [ON TRACK] Developer improvements: IDE support bug 924961
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)

Nightly (129)

• bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile ignores <link rel="search">
• [PROPOSED] Dynamic snippets add-on
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Greek (el)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Punjabi (pa-IN)
• [PROPOSED] Developer improvements: Geckoview support for 2.3 -> 4.3 <== nightly only
• [PROPOSED] New Sync (PiCL MVP)

Developer Tools

• Outbound:
  • Re-introducing the devtools: scratchpad and style editor
    • Quote from HN: "Hey Firefox dev tools team: nice work. Keep it up! :)"Link
  • Aurora Hacks Post
    • Hacker News
• Development:
  • faster pretty-printing has landed and we're arranging uplifts.
  • many many leak fixes!
  • working on fixes for Brazil Device debugging, intermittent Jetpack failures
  • Add-on SDK 1.15 Beta 1 this week.

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

• Study: Vision Mobile's report on "How HTML Can Compete with Native" evaluates gaps between W3C recommendations and implementation in browsers. [1]

• Study: Pew's Internet & American Life Project examines how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives. [2] It breaks down reasons for non-usage into Relevance, Usability, Price and Lack of access.

Tencent

• China's Tencent with over 1B users is about to overtake Facebook. [3]. Tencent's mobile messaging app WeChat has over 200m users, up three times from 2012 year-ending levels of around 85m. Tencent is also preparing $200m to place on a bid for US-based SnapChat. [4]

Microsoft

• Microsoft is offering 11 goodies to developers who can demonstrate how they got 11% better page load performance in their organization’s home web page with Internet Explorer 11. [5]

Apple

• Apple's new OS X Mavericks is focused on helping OS X users be more efficiently. Positives include multi-monitor support and iCloud Keychain for security, and negatives include broken email capabilities. [6] However, it is free for all Mac users, reflecting commoditized state of operating systems besides Apple's upcoming strategies with hardware differentiation. [7]

Google

• Google's maps is evaluating integrating data about emotions, for example, places you've rated or people you hang out with, into an interactive visual presentation reflecting our real life connections and peek into the future and possibly travel there. [8]

Amazon

• Amazon is trying to get independent book stores to sell Kindles. [9] Retailers will have the option of receiving 10% of every Kindle book purchased on Kindle devices sold by the bookstore for the first two years after a customer buys a device.