Firefox/Planning/2010-08-18

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
  • Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
  • Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde Conference Room
  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
  • irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
  • (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)
REMEMBER
These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Agenda

  • actions from last week:
  • schedule and progress on upcoming releases
  • review highlights and notices
  • respond to questions and concerns

Action Items

  • 3.5.x EOL Plan
    • chofmann will create a geographic breakdown of 3.5.x users
    • maymumi has offered to help out in terms of focused messaging
    • beltzner will come back in 2-3 weeks with a EOL plan for 3.5.x

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox 3.5.12 / [[Releases/Firefox

Firefox 4.0 Beta 3

Jetpack SDK 0.7

Add-on Builder 1.0a4

Fx Input

Input 1.7

  • ETA changed to Wednesday, 8/25
  • The new dashboard layout is still being developed. If you want a sneak preview though, check out our staging site

Test Pilot studies

Highlights / Notices

Notes or issues that don't correspond to a particular release you'd like people to know about.

  • Latest beta Feedback
    • Positives:
      • App tabs less buggy
      • Page loads are getting faster
      • New UI
      • Youtube is more usable
    • Negatives
      • orkut is a big issue: bug 585744
      • close/maximize/minimize button issue is still very annoying - bug 574833
      • hotmail: 547507, 581502
      • hard to find the "help->about" in the new firefox menu which makes doing support hard.
      • crashes, slowness, broken usability (input fields [bug 571537] and buttons) with Flash
    • Others
      • people are having a hard time giving feedback in other languages (says they're swearing when in fact, they aren't)
      • when to expect the new Linux theme?
      • mostly negative perception about changed order with context menu "open page in new..." options
    • Common Add-On Compatibility Requests
      • Google tool bar
      • Adblock plus
      • Cooliris
      • Antivirus kaspersky

Questions and Concerns

Please add any questions or concerns you would like discussed at today's meeting.

Press & Public Reactions