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Firefox DevTools 2015 Roadmap |
| Owner: Joe Walker |
Updated: 2015-09-22 |
| This roadmap outlines the current direction for Firefox DevTools 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.
Global
| Current Plans |
Backlog
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- Source Map support in all tools (jsantell/jlong) meta
------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------
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e10s
| Current Plans |
Backlog
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- meta
- Enable tests for all of e10s
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Content
| Current Plans |
Backlog
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- Read write in storage tool (mratcliffe)
- Cookies & local storage in storage tool (mratcliffe)
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- Multiple viewports for Responsive Design (jryans)
- IndexedDB support in storage tool (blocked by 1059724
- Displaying keyframes, animated props in Animation Inspector (pbro)
- In-content layout editor (GeometryHighlighter) (zer0)
- Better SVG support (polygon/shape points highlighters, in-content editor?)
- More MDN integration (markup-view, gcli command)
- Extract diff of CSS changes (which should almost be made possible thanks to the as-authored project) (zer0)
- Markup-view configurations (many people asking for options to remove ellipsis in long attributes, or show/hide attributes, show/hide text nodes, etc...)
- Authored styles and undo/redo in rule view
- Auto-update to latest CodeMirror (gl)
- Search plain text in inspector (bgrins)
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Console
| Current Plans |
Backlog
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Debugging
| Current Plans |
Backlog
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- Debugging Basic workers
- Debugging Shared workers
- Debugging Service workers
- Debugger pausing (XHR, postMessage, promises?) (eddy)
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Gaming/Media
| Current Plans |
Backlog
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------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------
- Unified Gaming Tool Prototype (vporof, jsantell)
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Gaming Meta Bug
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Networking
| Current Plans |
Backlog
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------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------
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- WebSockets: Honza, Axel synchronizing the effort with platform (Andrea Marchesini so far), Luca, Florent also involved in it.websockets summary, meta (honza)
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Performance/Memory
| Current Plans |
Backlog
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------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------
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- Extend ubi::Node graph to include things managed by the cycle collector [jimb]
- Make heap snapshots speak IPDL so they work in sandboxed child processes for e10s / fxos [fitzgen]
- Shortest paths to GC roots [fitzgen]
- Dominator trees [fitzgen]
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Remote
| Current Plans |
Backlog
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------ Items above done before or during Q4 ------
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- Support most common targets in about:debugging (janx)
- Ensure valence works, support matrix? (jeff)
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Initiatives
