Firefox/Goals/2013Q2

Firefox Desktop

Search Hijacking

• remove use of keyword.URL
• add prefs UI for selecting default engine
• prompt-on-engine-change dialog/notification

Performance

• Add-on manager startup
  • eliminate unnecessary main-thread I/O
  • investigate simplified storage back-end (SQLite->JSON)
• Thumbnail service
  • no main thread impact from thumbnailing
• New download back-end
  • landed and used by at least one consumer (no main thread I/O)
• New tab page
  • reduce impact on tab animation
• Password Manager
  • eliminate main-thread I/O
• localStorage
  • Eliminate all uses of localStorage in application code

Australis

Merged to mozilla-central for Firefox 24 (with intent to ride that train)

Profile Reset

Improve functionality and expose it more. (Gathering in bug 851364)

Permissions UI

Expose a lightweight UI (not about:permissions) for managing permissions you have granted to a site. (old mockup: http://cl.ly/image/3u3M2w3O3w1X)

Stability

• Develop and deploy a system to allow 3rd parties to submit encrypted/obfuscated symbols to Mozilla, and get popular addons and driver vendors to send us symbols.
• Develop reports to allow prioritization of potentially exploitable crashes.

Plugins

• Make plugin and plugin instance instantiation asynchronous
• Profile Flash IPC messages and rearrange event delivery to delay painting and networking events when synchronous events are pending.

Firefox Developer Tools

Add-on SDK

• UX work
• Places API
• Add-ons run with access to a DOM window

Script and Performance Tools

• Scratchpad remoted and integrated with the debugger.
• FPS monitor, frame boundaries in the profiler.
• tagStack, XHR breakpoints.

Content Tools

• Finish remoting the Inspector
• Plan and begin executing authoring strategy
  • (Which means: iterate on UX for in-browser authoring, better integrate Style Editing, prototype external editor integration)
• Provide metrics on Developer Tool usage through FHR probes

Firefox for Android

Profile Related Work

Various things that are based on profiles, while trying to avoid Sync/PiCL dependencies:

• Profile Reset
• Guest Mode (Switching to a temporary profile)
• Kid Mode (A profile with strong parental controls)
• Senior Mode (A profile with less options and designed pure ease-of-use)

Reader Enhancements

Reader is one of Firefox Android's most differentiating features. We have plans to add more to the core in Q2:

• Night Mode (ambient light based background toggle)
• Sans Serif/Serif font toggle
• Open into Reading List from home screen
• Add to Reading List from external apps (twitter)
• Text-to-Voice investigations (investigate the technology)
• Twitter card support for richer Reading List (investigate the design)

WebRT

• Packaged app support
• APK wrapper support (goal is to uplift to Marketplace)
• Turn off some browser-centric features while in App mode

Game/TV Form Factor

• Gamepad controller support
• TV layout support

User Efficency/Cleanup

• Hostname completion
• Keyboard shortcuts
• SNAV
• Quickly share using last "Share App" from menu
• Improve Settings UI
• Improve Session Restore

Firefox for Metro

• Feature-complete awesome/start screen
• Uplift from mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora

Community Development

• Make Mozillians a useful repository of information about core and new contributors, including all employees.
• Establish a roadmap for contributors so that they can view their progress on Mozillians and can see what the next "level up" is.
• Implement engineering contributor rewards program, including both recognition/badges and "stuff".
• Request from creative team: help provide art (art competition?) to support engineering badge recognition efforts .
• Automate, either through bugzilla-anthropology or Bugzilla proper, the awarding of many of the badges in the Engineering badging effort.
• Design and implement a set of metrics to measure Mozilla's support for volunteer engineering, and volunteer participation/effectiveness.
• Request for every team in engineering: describe what a "minimum viable contributor" is for participating on that team, including time commitments and resources required.
• Request from bugzilla team: automate regular data dumps of bugzilla data for researchers by 1-May