Mobile/Roadmap

Last updated: 2013/05/21

Strategy: Four Pillars

Partnership opportunities

Pursuing opportunities that enable and support larger distributions of Firefox for Android.

Innovate to Differentiate

Focusing on innovations where we can truly excel and differentiate from the competition.

Developer Ecosystem

Supporting the larger Firefox ecosystem and better enabling the developer community on mobile projects.

State of Good Repair

Ensuring good code all around: paper cuts, user efficiencies, stability and performance.

Releases

Firefox 21: Foundations [Shipped]

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
• [ON TRACK] Amazon search url (updated)

Firefox 22: Simple Pleasures

Schedule

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

Features

• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovak
• State of good repair:
  • [ON TRACK] ANR Reporter - Not user facing
  • [ON TRACK] Refining Tab UI
  • [ON TRACK] Performance improvements - Including WebGL, texture streaming, async canvas updates

Firefox 23: Real Media

Schedule

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

Features

• [AT RISK] Dynamic URL bar
• [AT RISK] Firefox Health Report
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Turkish
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Hungarian
• [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, confirmed: preffed OFF
• [ON TRACK] L10N foundation improvements
• [ON TRACK] UI for changing search engine default
• [ON TRACK] RSS/Atom feed handling
• [ON TRACK] API: Payments

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] Web Audio API
• [PLANNED] API: Push notifications
• [PLANNED] SkiaGL improvement
• [PLANNED] Set Top Box optimization
• [PLANNED] Directional game console navigation
• [PLANNED] Quickshare
• [PROPOSED] Shumway: generic video player
  • Will create new project page with Mobile-specific work to be done when known
• [PROPOSED] Change default search engine for zh-CN

Firefox 25: Something for Everyone

Schedule

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

Features

• [PROPOSED] Privileged apps support
• [PROPOSED] Shumway - v2 branded players
  • Will create a project page for Mobile-specific work when known
• [PROPOSED] API: Cloud
• [PROPOSED] Solid developer environment
• [PROPOSED] API: Alarm
• [PLANNED] API: Web activities
• [PLANNED] API: Contacts
• [PLANNED] Dynamic Snippets
• [PROPOSED] About:home redesign

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)
• [PROPOSED] Shumway: other functionality
  • Will create a project page for Mobile-specific work when known

Waiting Room

Features

• Reflow on zoom (double tap) by default
• WebApp management
• Settings menu UI refresh
• Quick share
• Addition of search engines
• Location-based search engines
• Changing default search engines by locale
• Flavours/variants: Kinderfox, Silverfox, Corpfox, Devfox (as add-ons?)
• API: Gamepad
• API: Bluetooth
• PiCL v1
• Add-on management via distribution file
• Add-on management via locking to browser
• Mixed content

Design (UX)

Q1

• Changeable search engine default
• About:home redesign
• Reader improvements & enhancements
• Settings UI clean-up
• PiCL ("Profiles in the Cloud")
• Set Top Box optimization & directional navigation
• First-run UX
• Packaged and privileged apps UI
• WebRTC implementation guidance
• Shumway v1
• Reader integration into PiCL
• Send to device
• Profile support
• PDF.js support
• Permissions dialogue

Q2

• tbd

Q3

• tbd

Investigation (Engineering)

Q2

• PiCL
• Dynamic Snippets
• Shumway
• Directional game console navigation
• Performance
• L10N multi-locale build

Q3

• tbd

Q4

• tbd

Exploration (Product)

Q2

• Mobile wallet
• Gestures
• WebRTC

Q3

• Alternate browser configurations
• Ability to lock add-ons
• Benchmarking
• Developer support
• Form factor optimizations
• Multi-screen usage

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").

Archives

• Roadmap Archive

Reference

• [ON TRACK] - {{mok}}
• [PLANNED] - {{mplan}}
• [PROPOSED] - {{mprop}}
• [AT RISK] - {{mrisk}}