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Last updated: 2013/04/18
Strategy: Four Pillars
- Partnership opportunities
- Work to make Firefox increasingly attractive for pre-installation and alternate distribution partners and channels.
- Innovate to Differentiate
- Build on our core strengths -- and ensure we have the necessary foundations in place -- to develop new consumer-led differentiators.
- Developer Ecosystem
- Support the larger Firefox ecosystem and create world-class developer tools and support.
- State of Good Repair
- Continually improve our existing code and user experience to the highest possible degree of polish and performance.
Releases
Firefox 21: Foundations
Schedule
- Tracking Fx21
Nightly: Jan 7, 2013Aurora: 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
- [AT RISK] Reflow on zoom (double tap) by default
- [ON TRACK] Dynamic URL bar
- [PLANNED] Added locale: Turkish
- [PLANNED] Added locales: Hungarian & Slovak
- State of good repair:
- [PROPOSED] ANR
- [PROPOSED] New tab UI
Firefox 23: Real Media
Schedule
- Tracking Fx23
- Nightly: Apr 1, 2013
- Aurora: May 13, 2013
- Beta: Jun 24, 2013
- Release: Aug 6, 2013
Features
- NFC bump for tab sharing
- WebRTC platform support, preffed off
- [PLANNED] Firefox Health Report
- [PLANNED] Changeable search engine default
- [PLANNED] Add/remove search engines
- [PLANNED] RSS/Atom feed handling
- [PLANNED] Set Top Box optimization
- [PLANNED] Directional game console navigation
- [PLANNED] Dynamic Snippets
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] APIs: Push, WebActivities, Contacts
- [PLANNED] SkiaGL improvement
- [PROPOSED] APIs: Payments, Alarm
- [PROPOSED] Location-based search engines
- [PROPOSED] Shumway: generic video player
- [PROPOSED] About:home redesign
- [PROPOSED] Reader mode improvements
- [PROPOSED] Profile support for alternate browser configurations
- [PROPOSED] Cloud API
- [PROPOSED] Change default search engine for zh-CN
Firefox 25: TBD
Schedule
- Tracking Fx25
- Nightly: Jun 24, 2013
- Aurora: Aug 5, 2013
- Beta: Sep 23, 2013
- Release: Nov 5, 2013
Features
- [PROPOSED] Priveleged apps support
- [PROPOSED] L10N multi-locale build
- [PROPOSED] Shumway v2
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)
Design (UX)
Q1
- Changeable search engine default
- Add and remove search engines
- 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
Q2
- tbd
Q3
- tbd
Investigation (Engineering)
Q2
Q3
- tbd
Q4
- tbd
Exploration (Product)
- Mobile wallet
- Gestures
- Alternate browser configurations
- Ability to lock add-ons
- Benchmarking
- 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
Reference
- [ON TRACK] - {{mok}}
- [PLANNED] - {{mplan}}
- [PROPOSED] - {{mprop}}
- [AT RISK] - {{mrisk}}