Firefox/Planning/2012-06-06

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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# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Warp Core
• Vidyo Guest URL

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Add-on SDK

Release (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)

Stabilization (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)

Development (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)

Apps

• Firefox Desktop 14 (Beta) - landed
  • Functionality was backed out - bug 750936
  • Native Install
  • Chromeless launch of apps

• Firefox Desktop 15 (Aurora)
  • Features: Support of native installation and and chromeless launch of apps for Win and Mac OS

• Firefox Desktop 16 (Nightly)
  • Fit and polish for K9o requirements

• Firefox Mobile 15 (Nightly) - in progress
  • Features: Native Install and chromeless window launch
  • Proposed marketplace bundling with Fennec is an open issue. See bug 738545

• Apps in the Cloud
  • AITC client for desktop landed for FF15

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Apple

• Apple was granted 22 patents covering everything from industrial design to a futuristic 3D Apple TV remote and even a way that Apple envisions of harnessing power through electromagnetic induction to help extend battery life on iOS devices.

Microsoft

• The 6th Platform Preview for IE10 now includes the latest preview update for IE10. It includes an embedded Adobe Flash Player, which has been improved to support touch gestures. It is also integrated with the Process Lifetime Manager to better improve battery life in the Metro environment. Flash will also be bundled with the operating system and will receive improvements through Windows Update.
• The new release preview also sends a Do Not Track header by default, the first web browser to do so.
• IE10 now supports unprefixed versions of CSS transitions, transforms, animations, gradients, and CSS Fonts’ font-feature-settings property, as well as platform APIs such as the Indexed Database API (IndexedDB) and requestAnimationFrame().
• IE10 will also no longer support IE4's visual filters and transitions for anything other than intranet sites
• Interesting, Microsoft is going to great lengths to force adoption of the Metro-style interface, even to the point of emoving all code from Windows 8 referencing the Start button/menu to prevent third-party developers from creating a workaround allowing people to continue using it
• Microsoft's Bing Mobile team released On-Ex, an Android application that is a sort of "if this then that" for mobile phones. Powered by Javascript, it offers some interesting API calls -- modeOfTransport returns whether the user is walking, running or driving.
• Analysts are estimating that new Windows RT tablets will be in the $500-$700 price range, which raises concerns for their viability

Google

• Fully hardware-accelerated CSS filters are available in Chrome/Chromium version 19 and newer
• The press are heralding the upcoming Chrome version 21 as being optimized for web-based gaming

Security

• Facebook is trying to stop a browser plugin-based worm that uses the Crossrider cross-platform plugin creation tool.

Tizen

• A Tizen developer ran the RingMark test on Tizen, Android, and iPhone smartphones. Tizen was the clear leader with 141 passed Ring 1 tests.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

• Finalizing materials for releases later this week; getting started on the next round of releases.