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Firefox Platform 2015 Roadmap |
| Owner: Martin Best |
Updated: 2015-10-27 |
| This roadmap outlines the current direction for Firefox Platform development through 2015. The following document is subject to change at anytime. It is also not a commitment to ship a features but rather an intent to implement and land them on by default in the nightly version of Firefox unless otherwise stated. |
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Definition of Done: All listed features are present in our nightly version of Firefox. The features must then go through the standard quality assurance process before appearing in a release channel.
Accessibility
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- FFOS Lightsaber v1.0 engineering support
- Enable marionette a11y checks in Gaia Integration tests.
- Ensure iOS is VoiceOver ready.
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
- Enable marionette a11y checks in Gaia Integration tests.
- Accessibility Dev Tool (prototype)
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
- Webspeech TTS hookup on Windows
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
- Accessibility support for E10s. (targeting Gecko 44 TBD)
- Ship Accessibility Dev Tool
- Web Facing Accessibility API (full proposal)
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[everything below not finalized]
- Webspeech TTS hookup on Windows
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
- Accessibility support for E10s. (targeting Gecko 42 TBD)
- FFOS Lightsaber v1.0 engineering support
- Enable marionette a11y checks in Gaia Integration tests.
- Accessibility Dev Tool
- Create accessibility inspection Developer Tool addon.
- Webspeech TTS hookup on Windows
- Ensure iOS is VoiceOver ready.
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
- Accessibility Metrics
- Accessibility Training Materials
- Web Facing Accessibility API
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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DOM
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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- Service Workers behind a pref
- IndexedDB in Workers
- Picture Tag
- requestSync (FxOS-only precursor to BackgroundSync)
- e10s (drag-and-drop, clipboard, leak detection and reporting)
- BroadcastChannel
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- Web Manifest
- Screen Orientation API (almost complete)
- Notification API in Workers
- Infrastructure for tab muting
- Fetch API
- Cache API
- MessagePort in Workers
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
- WebMIDI (preliminary; likely not fully shipping on any platform until Q4 at earliest)
- WebGL in Workers
- Pre-rendering API
- Shadow DOM (pending outcome of W3C WebApps WG F2F April 24)
- Custom Elements (pending outcome of W3C WebApps WG F2F April 24)
- Service Workers
- Web Push
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
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- Service Workers behind a pref
- IndexedDB in Workers
- Picture Tag
- requestSync (FxOS-only precursor to BackgroundSync)
- e10s (drag-and-drop, clipboard, leak detection and reporting)
- BroadcastChannel
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
- Pre-rendering API
- Shadow DOM (pending outcome of W3C WebApps WG F2F April 24)
- Custom Elements (pending outcome of W3C WebApps WG F2F April 24)
- Web Manifest
- WebGL in Workers
- Firefox OS application security model work
- Screen Orientation API
- WebMIDI
- Notification API in Workers
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
- BackgroundSync
- Web Push
- Media Controls API
- localStorage + Quota Manager
- Image Resizing API
- FileSystem API
- Web Share primitive (towards Web Activities standardization)
- finish remaining WebIDL conversions
- JS-implemented plugins
- IndexedDB data change observer events
- Device Orientation Locking (any spec work; others doing implementation)
- MessagePort
- Remove appcache
- Directory upload
- DOM bits of Object.observe
- Get rid of DOM child array
- Web Audio in Workers
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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e10s
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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- Milestone 4 completed in Gecko 38 (buglist)
- Milestone 5 completed in Gecko 38 (buglist)
- CPOW mitigation tools
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- Milestone 6 completed (buglist)
- Milestone 7 completed (buglist)
- Default in Nightly 42
- Opt-in in Aurora 41
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
- Milestone 8 completed (buglist)
- Addons: new extension api made available
- Removal of CPOW use from browser code
- Default in Aurora 42
- Opt-in in Beta 42
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
- Milestone 9 completed
- Default in Release 43
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
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- Milestone 4 completed in Gecko 38 (buglist)
- Milestone 5 completed in Gecko 38 (buglist)
- CPOW mitigation tools
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q1 ------
- Milestone 6 (buglist)
- Rollout to Aurora 40
- Milestone 7 completed (buglist)
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q2 ------
- Milestone 8 completed (buglist)
- Rollout to Beta 41
- Addon migration tools
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
- Rollout to Release
- milestone completion placeholder - additional milestones may be defined later in the year for winding the e10s project down.
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
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Graphics
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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- (Q1 unchanged from the original plans)
- FirefoxOS GFX Device Support
- OMTC - Off Main Thread Compositing Windows
- e10s - Ship Electrolysis
- Project Silk
- Graphics - FirefoxOS Critical Memory Usage Reduction
- WebGL 2 Demo
- WebGL Desktop Performance
- Desktop OOM driver related issues
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- WebWorkers WebGL support (added in April)
- Runtime HW testing (added in May, pushed some items down)
- Compositor success detection (to combine with video success detection)
- Additional telemetry for startup testing
- Crash detection and recovery during startup testing
- Tiling on Desktop - Removed in April. Currently not deemed as required for APZ and scrolling performance, so the priority dropped.
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
- APZ Fennec parity (added in June) - enable in 43, but do a double nightly, ride 44 train
- Desktop Scrolling Performance (postponed from Q2 in May)
- Overscroll Improvements - removed - no further work required
- Expose the graphics card details
- Update to the latest ANGLE (with initial WebGL2 support)
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
- APZ on Desktop - enabled in 42, do multiple nightlies only, ride 44 or 45 train, but only under E10S
- WebGL2 on par (target 46; goal added in June)
- WebGL Mobile Performance
- WebGL Performance Parity on Desktop - investigation stage
- Update to the latest Skia
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
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- FirefoxOS GFX Device Support
- OMTC - Off Main Thread Compositing Windows
- e10s - Ship Electrolysis
- Project Silk
- Graphics - FirefoxOS Critical Memory Usage Reduction
- WebGL 2 Demo
- WebGL Desktop Performance
- Desktop OOM driver related issues
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
- APZ on Desktop
- Tiling on Desktop
- Desktop Scrolling Performance
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
- APZ - "fake overscroll"
- APZ - OOP iframe support
- Zooming-in Improvements
- Overscroll Improvements
- Expose the graphics card details
- WebGL Mobile Performance
- WebGL Performance Parity on Desktop
- APZ - "fake scroll" - removed - priority lowered
- APZ - OOP iframe support - removed - priority lowered
- Zooming-in Improvements - removed - the ask is not there anymore
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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JavaScript
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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- Parsing and Caching Optimization Shumway
- ARM Mobile Opts - Support demo
- Detailed GC jank Telemetry
- ES6 Classes
- SAB demo
- SIMD.js demos
- ARM 64 baseline on Intel
- CGC Target release
- JIT Frame for Profiler JIT Coach plumbing
- Experimental SIMD.js for ASM.js on x86 only (Intel demo)
- ES6 Generators JITted
- ES6 Symbols
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- SIMD.js on ION Intel
- GC/CC scheduling improvements
- Shared Array Buffer v1
- Research PGO
- Enable the backtracking allocator for all Ion code
- Improve web framework (Shumway/Ember/Angular) performance
- ES6 let and const
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
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- Parsing and Caching Optimization Shumway
- ARM Mobile Opts - Support demo
- Detailed GC jank Telemetry
- ES6 Classes
- SAB demo
- SIMD.js demos
- ARM 64 baseline on Intel
- CGC Target release
- JIT Frame for Profiler JIT Coach plumbing
- Experimental SIMD.js for ASM.js on x86 only (Intel demo)
- ES6 Generators JITted
- ES6 Symbols
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
- SIMD.js on ION Intel
- GC/CC scheduling improvements
- Shared Array Buffer v1
- Research PGO
- Enable the backtracking allocator for all Ion code
- Improve web framework (Shumway/Ember/Angular) performance
- ES6 let and const
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
- JS team reduce jank (GC tuning)
- SIMD.js on ION ARM
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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Layout
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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- Enable OMT Animations on all OMTC platforms
- -webkit CSS compatibility for fix-list sites
- Vertical Text (basic text, form controls)
- CSS Font Loading
- CSS Object fit and position
- CSS display:contents
- CSS scroll snapping
- CSS Ruby
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- Images downscale during decode for JPEG (bug 1045929)
- Web Animation API
- HTML5 <canvas> improvements
- e10s Layout Support
- Vertical Text (tables)
- CSS 3D Transforms ( DEAA & VR requirements )
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
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- Enable OMT Animations on all OMTC platforms
- -webkit CSS compatibility for fix-list sites
- Vertical Text (basic text, form controls)
- CSS Font Loading
- CSS Object fit and position
- CSS display:contents
- CSS scroll snapping
- CSS Ruby
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
- Images downscale during decode for APZC platforms
- Web Animation API
- HTML5 <canvas> improvements
- e10s Layout Support
- Vertical Text (tables)
- CSS 3D Transforms ( DEAA & VR requirements )
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
- CSS Images (media-fragments)
- CSS Shapes (shape-outside for floats)
- CSS Box Alignment (for block layout)
- CSS Grid
- CSS 3D Transforms ( plane splitting)
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
------ Items above planned to be done before end 2015 but may get reprioritized ------
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Media
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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- MSE - Media Source Extensions (release Windows Vista and later/YouTube only)
- EME - Encrypted Media Extensions (beta 38 Windows Vista and later)
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- MSE (release Mac OSX/YouTube only)
- EME (release Windows Vista and later)
- Video quality and performance improvements
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
- MSE - remove whitelist in Firefox 42
- MSE - support in Android and Firefox OS
- EME - used on a major web site
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
- MP4 demuxer written in Rust
- JS decoders
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
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- MSE - Media Source Extensions (release Windows Vista and later/YouTube only)
- EME - Encrypted Media Extensions (beta 38 Windows Vista and later)
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
- MSE (release Mac OSX/YouTube only)
- EME (release Windows Vista and later)
- Video quality, performance and memory consumption (incl 4k2k video)
- Web Audio improvements (see WebRTC / WebAudio below)
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
- MSE improvements
- EME continued development / other platforms
- MP4 demuxer written in Rust
- Daala / JS codecs
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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Mobile Platform
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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- Enhance Page Load Performance
- Platform-independent MP3 parser, platform-dependent decoders
- Ensure all crash reports are going to Socorro
- OpenH264 on Android
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- Platform-independent MP3 parser, platform-dependent decoders
- Enhanced startup and pageload performance
- Block autoplay videos via script access
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
- APZ Gecko on Android
- Enhance Page Load Performance
- Reduce start up time
- Allow multiple Gecko windows via multiple GeckoView instances
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
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- Enhance Page Load Performance
- Platform-independent MP3 parser, platform-dependent decoders
- Ensure all crash reports are going to Socorro
- OpenH264 on Android
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
- Standalone WebRTC library usable by third parties Loop client prototype for major platforms (iOS, Android, Windows)
- Pre-Rendering Web Pages
- Background Hang Reporting (BHR) working with E10S
- Enhance screen mirroring performance
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
- Allow multiple Gecko windows via multiple GeckoView instances
- Download locales on-demand in split APK (snorp, esawin)
- Download fonts on-demand in split APK
- Improve Power Effeciency
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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Networking
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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- HTTP/2 ships preffed on (currently scheduled for Gecko 35)
- Network Predictor landed & enabled on m-c (bug 1009122)
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- Necko bits needed for Smart Data Management (split "System" data into browser, apps, etc): (bug 1070944)
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
- Framework for caching alternate representations of web data (bug 1177572)
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
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- HTTP/2 ships preffed on (currently scheduled for Gecko 35)
- Network Predictor landed & enabled on m-c (bug 1009122)
- Idle mode for networking (optimize radio power use): (bug 1085760)
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
- Necko bits needed for Smart Data Management (split "System" data into browser, apps, etc): (bug 1070944)
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
- Network predictor: prefetch resources into HTTP cache if they are very likely to be used.
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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PKI
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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- OneCRL - certificate revocation list push mechanism.
- Final round of 1024-bit root removals.
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- OCSP disabled for DV validations on Android.
- Support skipping OCSP for short-lived certificates.
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
- Certificate transparency (behind a pref).
- Support the OCSP must-staple extension.
- Enable skipping OCSP validation for short-lived certificates.
- Support for CA-provided Intermediate certificate info in SalesForce.
- OneCRL: support blocking by subject and public key.
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
- Add a mechanism to push security policy state updates.
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
- TLS 1.3
- Certificate chain collection from browsers
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- WebCrypto
- OneCRL
- Phase 1 of CA program migration to SalesForce
- SHA-1 warnings
- Name constraints on root CAs
- OneCRL based on (subject, public key)
- Certificate observatory
- Finish removal of 1024-bit roots
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Sandboxing
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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- EME/CDM sandboxing for Windows 7+
- e10s sandboxing for Windows (Low Integrity)
- e10s sandboxing for Windows (Alternate Desktop)
- e10s sandboxing for OS X (Minimal implementation)
- e10s sandboxing for Linux (Minimal implementation)
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- EME/CDM sandboxing for Windows XP and Vista
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
- EME/CDM sandboxing for OS X
- EME/CDM sandboxing for Linux
- e10s sandboxing for Windows (Low Integrity)
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
- e10s sandboxing for Windows (Alternate Desktop)
- e10s sandboxing for OS X (Minimal implementation)
- e10s sandboxing for Linux (Minimal implementation)
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- EME/CDM sandboxing for Windows 7+
- e10s sandboxing for OS X
- e10s sandboxing for Linux
- e10s sandboxing for Windows
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
- EME/CDM sandboxing for Windows XP and Vista
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
- EME/CDM sandboxing for OS X
- EME/CDM sandboxing for Linux
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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Security
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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- Security hooks revamp completed for Gecko internals.
- Add on signing support available.
- UX design for insecure password warning in Dev Edition/Dev Tools - bug 1135766
- Security for DevTools: Prototype CSP (content-security policy) analysis in Dev Edition/Dev Tools - bug 1129999
- SafeBrowsing Re-enable remote lookups for application reputation - bug 10900754
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- Security for DevTools: CSP (content-security policy) analysis in Dev Edition/Dev Tools - bug 1129999.
- CSP upgrade-insecure-requests - bug 1139297.
- Support detecting potentially unwanted software in SafeBrowsing - bug 1147212.
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
- SRI (Sub-resource integrity) for 3rd party scripts and styles - bug 992096.
- Evolving Referrer Policy - Implement referrer attribute for navigation and embedding elements - bug 999754 and allow dynamic changes of referrer policies bug 1174915.
- Containers for isolated non-private browsing sessions.
- Use a lock with a strikethrough for HTTP pages that have Password Fields in the Control Center - bug 1179961.
- Tracking Protection enabled by default in Private Browsing Mode bug 1175606.
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
- Security for DevTools: CSP (content-security policy) suggestions in Dev Edition/Dev Tools.
- Encryption for password manager database.
- Prototype for isolated Private Browsing sessions.
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
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- Security hooks revamp completed for Gecko internals.
- Add on signing support available.
- UX design for insecure password warning in Dev Edition/Dev Tools - bug 1135766
- Security for DevTools: Prototype CSP (content-security policy) analysis in Dev Edition/Dev Tools - bug 1129999
- SafeBrowsing Re-enable remote lookups for application reputation - bug 10900754
------ Items above were done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
- Tracking Protection Experiments - bug 1119891.
- Security for DevTools: Insecure passwords warning in Dev Edition/Dev Tools - bug 748193.
- SRI (Sub-resource integrity) for 3rd party scripts and styles - bug 992096.
- Security for DevTools: CSP (content-security policy) analysis and suggestions in Dev Edition/Dev Tools - bug 1129999.
- CSP upgrade-insecure-requests - bug 1139297.
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
- Containers for isolated non-private browsing sessions.
- Evolving Referrer Policy.
- Encryption for password manager database.
- Prototype for isolated Private Browsing sessions.
- Lightbeam-lite/Tracking Detection.
- Security hooks revamp complete for addons/extensions.
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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WebRTC / WebAudio
(All these features/fixes below are landing in Nightly during these quarters)
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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- Rewrite SDP/JSEP and add BUNDLE support
- Multistream, renegotiation support
- VP9 codec support in WebRTC - pref'd off by default
- Web Audio and WebRTC working well together
- OpenH264 for Android supported (no sandbox)
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- e10s blocker problems fixed
- Web Audio performance improvements - phase 1: significant perf wins on all benchmarks
- ICE TCP support landed in Nightly - pref'd off
- IPv6 support landed in Nightly
- Initial Identity support landed in Nightly
- WebRTC fully integrated with Web Audio: Web Audio can now feed a PeerConnection and receive audio back from that PC
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
- Capturing video from a canvas (pref'd on)
- Ability to change camera resolution with MediaStreamTrack.applyConstraint
- Simulcast - phase 1: largely focused on signaling and spec work
- We chose not to land it, but it was essential for setting us up for landing simulcast in Nightly in Q4
- Audio/Video refactor - paving the way for Full Duplex support and for resolving existing audio/video stack shortcomings
- Web Audio performance improvements shipping in Firefox 44
- IPV6 support shipping in Firefox 42
------ Items above done before or during Q3 ------
- Simulcast support (as described in the IETF spec proposal) landed in Nightly
- Full duplex audio support on Windows landed in Nightly
- stretch goal: land full duplex audio support for a second platform (likely Mac)
- New Delay Agnostic AEC landed in Nightly
- Media Stream add/remove track, constructions, and clone landed in Nightly (big part of spec compliance goal)
- ICE TCP pref'd on in Nightly
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
- VP9 support in WebRTC pref'd on by default (may or may not be the preferred codec when we pref on)
- Full duplex audio support on all platforms
- Audio output selection
- Considerably better NAT traversal (including ICE proxy and UPnP support)
- Audio Workers (dependent on achieving working group consensus)
- Data Channels in Workers (dependent on achieving working group consensus)
- Compliant with "v1.0" (or equivalent) of the WebRTC spec
- Finish implementation of MediaStreamTrack constraints
- getUserMedia and audio output sandboxing working (support sandboxing team, audio sandboxing may be a stretch for end of year)
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- Rewrite SDP/JSEP and add BUNDLE support
- Multistream, renegotiation support
- VP9 codec support in WebRTC - pref'd off by default
- Web Audio and WebRTC working well together
- OpenH264 for Android supported (no sandbox)
------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- e10s blocker problems fixed
- Web Audio performance improvements - phase 1: significant perf wins on all benchmarks
- ICE TCP support - pref'd off
- IPv6 support
- Initial Identity support
- WebRTC fully integrated with Web Audio: Web Audio can now feed a PeerConnection and receive audio back from that PC
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
- Add support for audio sharing (when there is audio to share during screen/window/etc sharing)
- landing pref'd off in Fx42
- pref on before the end of the quarter
- ICE TCP support - pref'd on
- Simulcast - phase 1: largely focused on signaling (new SDP work, modifying the SDP helper code)
- Audio/Video refactor - phase 1: paving the way for Full Duplex support and for resolving existing audio/video stack shortcomings
- Web Audio perf - phase 2
- resolve remaining bugs on the web audio perf meta bug
- identify if there are any games (as of the start of Q3) that must work well by the end of Q3 on a specific (targeted) device that do not currently work well enough and then deliver the performance needed
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
- Simulcast support (as described in the IETF spec proposal) landed in Nightly
- Audio/Video refactor - phase 2 (second of an estimated three phases)
- Considerably better NAT traversal (including ICE proxy and UPnP support)
- Audio Workers (dependent on achieving working group consensus)
- Data Channels in Workers (dependent on achieving working group consensus)
- Significant improvements toward spec compliance (full spec compliance with "v1.0" coming in 2016)
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
- Full duplex audio support
- Audio output selection
- Compliant with "v1.0" (or equivalent) of the WebRTC spec
- getUserMedia and audio output sandboxing working (support sandboxing team)
Web Compatibility
| Current Plans |
Previous Plans
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------ Items above done before or during Q1 ------
- Compatibility dashboard for Telemetry, Bugzilla
- Develop automated mobile compatibility infrastructure (to be tracked on dashboard)
- Redundant GitHub webcompat/web-bugs issues data storage.
------ Items above done before or during Q2 ------
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q3 ------
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Q4 ------
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------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
- Compatibility dashboard for Telemetry, Bugzilla
- Develop automated mobile compatibility infrastructure (to be tracked on dashboard)
- Redundant GitHub webcompat/web-bugs issues data storage.
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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Initiatives
- 60fps
- Focused on producing a smooth, jank free experiences. 60fps goal is dependant on media type.
- BarrierSmash
- Ensure that accessibility features are working throughout our products.
- Candle
- Program targeted at reducing energy usage.
- CrashKill
- Improve the overall stability of Gecko and the project that rely on it.
- CritSmash
- Fix known critical security bugs.
- Electrolysis
- This is focused on providing multi-process browser (aka e10s).
- Offline
- Presto
- Program targeted at improving overall load times and performance. This is resurrecting an older program that was discontinued.
- MemShrink
- Reduce memory usage (all products)
- Web Compatibility
- Improve the overall web compatibility of Gecko.
- Webify
- Reduce the webs dependence on plugins. This includes several content targeted initiatives such as the games program (Unity), Shumway (Flash), MSE/EME, WebRTC (Google Talk, Facebook Video)
- Games Program
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