Firefox/Planning/2011-07-13

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 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

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Actions from Last Week

None!

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Release (3.6, 5.0)

• Firefox 5.0.1 and 3.6.19 went out on Tuesday (background)
  • Shipped mac-only updates
  • Updated the website download buttons 5.0.1 for all platforms
  • For more details, see Christian's blog post

Beta (6)

• Going to ask for a (non-urgent) build today
  • This build will have js PGO turned off again (it's currently on) as we don't intend to ship with it (accidentally had it enabled through a comedy of errors, whoops)
  • Christian still needs to check with mobile before sending a go
  • Christian still needs to check on beta approvals before sending the go

Aurora (7)

• Daily updates are being generated and offered

Nightly (8)

663259 [Mac] Async Plugin should default to true 571454 Back button does not work along edge of screen 661910 Windows XULRunner Aurora 6 SDK is missing 592833 Reduce thread usage of media elements 557226 [OOPP] plugin name should be reflected in Mac OS X plugin process names

Firefox Sync

• Beta (6) - Sync Discovery
• Aurora (7) - Instant Sync
• Firefox Sync Add-on EOL Plan - Phase 1
• Firefox 8+:
  • Improving Sync Set Up on Desktop
  • Improving Sync Set Up on Mobile

Feedback Summary

• Youtube broke (all on-site videos were solid black) on 7/8, works over https. It was fixed the next day but users needed to clear cache. (Some users also had to disable zynga toolbar).
• Beta (6) feedback: Extensions, extensions, extensions. And Firefox updates too often.

Actions this week

• Asa to write up a post-facto feature page on async plugin painting on mac