Features/Release Tracking

Firefox Flight Tracking page, wherein each release gets a table, and each table is made up of table rows transcluded in from feature pages (which are listed on the Features List). Nothing here is necessarily final. If you have questions or would like to make changes, contact Deb.

Firefox 5

Desktop

SDR - Security Design Review | SIR - Security Implementation Review {?-TBD,S-Skipped,P-Pending,C-complete}

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
Channel Switching	We removed the Channel Switching UI for Firefox 5. We tracked this with Bug 659972.	5.0	Sheila Mooney
Associate the webm file extension with Firefox	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Jim Mathies
Move Do-not-track setting to the Privacy pane	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Sid Stamm
When closing a tab in Panorama, don't immediately resize other tabs	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Tim Taubert
Improve smooth scrolling animation	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Alex Faaborg
Improve Hebrew font rendering on OS X	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Jonathan Kew
Dropped the Keep-Alive HTTP header (Standards)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Pat McManus
Firefox will try to re-start HTTP connections after a short-delay to work around the lost-first-SYN problem (Performance)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Pat McManus
HTTP Transactions sorted by CWND (Performance)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Pat McManus
Content-Disposition changes for correctness (Standards)	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Julian Reschke
CSS Animations	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	David Baron
Framerate & stats on video elements	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Chris Pearce
PGO 10% win on SS	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Someone
setTimeout now clamped to a minimum of 4ms (Standards and Benchmarks)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Boris Zbarsky
setTimeout in background tabs bug 614733 & bug 633421 (Performance)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Boris Zbarsky
make mozRequestAnimationFrame much smoother with large callback functions (Performance)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Boris Zbarsky
significant querySelector speedup (Performance)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Boris Zbarsky
Miscellaneous canvas performance improvements (Performance)	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Robert O'Callahan
better memory reporting for SQLite databases bug 615978	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Shawn Wilsher
Implement createImageData(ImageData) (Standards)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Ms2ger
Add support for XHR's loadend event (Standards)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Olli Pettay
Canvas text baselines not fully implemented (Standards)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Peter Annema
Don't reveal UI language to site/page) (Privacy)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Ben Bucksch
MathML Embellished Operators (Standards)	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Karl Tomlinson
Support SMIL animation of the 'class' attribute (Standards)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Robert Longson
Expose public APIs for converting doubles to signed/unsigned int per ECMA spec	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Andreas Gal
All HTML Elements should have click() and accesskey	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Ms2ger
Remove support for UTF-7 per HTML5 spec	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Simon Montagu
Remove support for UTF-32 per HTML5 spec	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Simon Montagu
force font metrics of Arial Black to match the main Arial family	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Jonathan Kew
Optimize pages with lots of combo-boxes (Performance)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Ehsan Akhgari
Improved spell checking with updated Hunspell	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Ryan VanderMeulen
Make our canvas implementation more compliant to the spec (Standards)	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Ms2ger
SSE optimizations for some Gecko internals (Performance)	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Justin Lebar
Support WOFF on Android	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Makoto Kato
Improve the smooth scroll animation	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Markus Stange
Some MathML improvements	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Frédéric Wang
GIO/GVFS integration for opening sftp:// or smb:// URIs directly in Firefox under Gnome	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	jhorak
Add color keywords for default text and background colors	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Florian Quèze

Mobile

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
Optimized layout and interaction with some mobile web pages (improved position:fixed support)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Thomas
Add images downloaded in Firefox to the Android Gallery immediately (before: images were visible only after reboot	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Thomas
Add a "More" button to the Android Menu when needed)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Thomas
Fix issue with color conversion for better display of images and video (Fix broken NEON Y'CbCr to RGB conversion)	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Thomas
Resolves recent breakage that would show an "undefined" error when trying to load web pages while outside of wifi or network coverave (Add remoteXUL strings for Firefox Mobile)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Thomas
Slight improvement of page load speed, especially on 3G network (e10s HTTP: Implement nsIProgressEventSink:part2)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Thomas
Add user-visible pref for Do Not Track SDR: S || SIR: S	landed	Fx5	Thomas
Finish new theme styles for dialogs/prompts (prompts and confirms look like android dialogs)	landed SDR: S || SIR: P	Fx5	Thomas
Smooth panning (resolves an issue where consecutive pans were a bit jumpy before)	landed SDR: S || SIR: S	Fx5	Thomas
In landscape, virtual keyboard no longer takes up entire screen (covering Awesome Screen)	backed out SDR: S || SIR:?	may NOT make it to Fx5	Thomas

Jetpack

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
Create Firefox Add-ons using standard web programming skills	landed	JP1.0	--
APIs to cover at least 80% of all Add-on use-cases	landed	JP1.0	--
Automatic testing of add-ons	landed	JP1.0	--
Automatic packaging of add-ons	landed	JP1.0	--
Full documentation & tutorial	landed	JP1.0	--
API: Access to System Clipboard	landed	JP1.0	--
API: Create New Context Menu Items	landed	JP1.0	--
API: Create toaster-style notifications	landed	JP1.0	--
API: Create new Keyboard shortcuts for features	landed	JP1.0	--
API: Execute scripts on web pages to modify page content	landed	JP1.0	--
API: Create pop-up dialogs, or panels	landed	JP1.0	--
API: Store and access creditials/passwords for webpages or the add-on	landed	JP1.0	--
API: Access Firefox's private browsing mode	landed	JP1.0	--
API: Make network requests	landed	JP1.0	--
API: Simple storage to persist data across restarts	landed	JP1.0	--
API: Access tabs or windows and their events	landed	JP1.0	--
API: Clean widget creation that blends in well with Firefox	landed	JP1.0	--

Firefox 6

Desktop

Feature

Status

ETA

Owner

Mobile

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner

Firefox 7

TBD

Legend

	Healthy: feature is progressing as expected.
	Blocked: feature is currently blocked.
	At Risk: feature is at risk of missing its targeted release.
ETA	Estimated date for completion of the current feature task. Overall ETA for the feature is the product release date.