Firefox/Meeting/28-Jan-2014

Details

• Tuesdays - 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Handy local meeting time link

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 91337
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• irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel
• "Firefox" Vidyo Room

Friends of the Firefox team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

Project Updates

UX Updates

Internet Connectivity Detection

Intern Val (vt on IRC) is working on improving Firefox's error messages to users. More specifically the internet connectivity detection on desktop. The rationale is that if there is an internet connectivity issue, we should let the user know this is the case and help them fix it.

Currently there is a disabled pref network.manage-offline-status. It will detect if there is no internet connectivity and set the browser in "work offline" mode. This behavior is present in Fennec and FxOS to detect connectivity issues on mobile.

There are some inconsistencies about what error messages we give to the user based on the platform

• On mobile: we tell the user to check their internet connectivity.
• On desktop: we tell the user they are in "offline mode" and attempt to disable it. This is not a very good error message if they don't have internet.

Does someone in the call have background on the following topics?

• History of the "work offline" mode and use cases associated it
• Issues with the internet connectivity detection on Desktop.
• Design choice for internet connectivity to share state with user triggered "work offline" mode.

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 1 minute!

gavin

(gavin's Status Board)

paolo

(paolo's Status Board)

mak

(marco's Status Board)

enn

(Neil's Status Board)

felipe

(felipe's Status Board)

mano

(Mano's Status Board)

ttaubert

(Tim's Status Board)

adw

(Drew's Status Board)

markh

(Mark's Status Board)

smacleod

(Steven's Status Board)

dolske

(dolske's Status Board)

mconley

(Mike's Status Board)

mikedeboer

(Mike's Status Board)

gijs

(gijs' Status Board)

Unfocused

(Blair's Status Board)

MattN

(MattN's Status Board)

jaws

(jaws's Status Board)

mixedpuppy

(mixedpuppy's Status Board)