Firefox/Planning/2011-08-31

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde 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

REMEMBER

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Market Insights

Desktop

• Chrome Dev builds now sync a users "Omnibox history" (i.e. all search and navigation requests and history) and Chromium builds show an option to sync "Foreign sessions" (i.e. tabs on other machines).

• Chrome Canary Builds show an option to "Enable automatic sign in for Google sites", although in testing, this isn't fully functional.

• MuteTab was released - an extension that allows you to quieten a specific tab. 

• Google is placing increasing emphasis on gaming for the Chrome platform beyond casual gaming. Google is the Premium Sponsor of New Game conference, and has been copromoting a number of games in the Chrome app store, and there have been discussions in the Chromium project about integrating the Joystick API.

• Fastsoft, a "world leader web acceleration", announced it will integrate mod_pagespeed, a web server module to take advantage of the SPDY protocol.

• A Beta of Windows 8 is expected at the BUILD conference, starting September 12th; it's likely that an IE10 beta will be released, at the very minimum, product features (beyond platform support) can be expected announced.

• Microsoft revealed it will be announcing a Windows 8 tablet running quad core ARM chips at BUILD.

• Although it's been expected for a long time due to various Windows 8 leaks, Microsoft confirmed (in passing) on an official blog that Windows 8 will have an app store.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• Opera reported record results, with most revenues coming from mobile operator deals

• Mobotap launched an iPhone version of the Dolphin browser with a similar look and feel, as well as key features

• Samsung presented 3 new Bada handsets and is preparing new Android device announcements tomorrow

• The first, 7-inch, Amazon tablet is rumoured to be shipping in October, followed by a 10-inch version early 2012

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

• Mozilla Brings the Best of Honeycomb to Firefox for Tablets
• Firefox to talk pretty to tablets, one day
• Mozilla Unveils Slick "Firefox For Tablets" Web Browser

• Why Firefox Could Own Browser-Based Gaming

• 5 awesome Mozilla Firefox secrets