Firefox/Planning/2011-07-20

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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)
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Actions from Last Week

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

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Release (3.6, 5.0)

Beta (6)

Aurora (7)

Nightly (8)

Firefox Mobile

5

in Android Market and Ovi Store: Total downloads: 2,847,002 (+3.95%) Android Market Active Installs: 1,185,896 (+3.72%) Market rating: 3.4 5/4/3/2/1: 10541/5961/5309/3989/5117

Add-Ons: Reviewed/Public: 167 (+1) Compatible: 31 (5.0-8.0a1) Featured: 20

  • Low compatible add-ons count

6

Beta 2 launched last week Total downloads: 126,036 (+16.81%) Android Market Active Installs: 51,934 (+15.73%) Market rating: 3.6 5/4/3/2/1: 533/343/241/145/211

7

in Aurora - last Release for Maemo, goal: publish Aurora on Android Market

8

in Nightly

Action Items from last meeting

New ACTION ITEMS


Mobile Test Pilot - HELP TEST!

Maemo support: Fx7 will be final release

Localization

Release Engineering

Priorities page

  • waiting for "go to build" 6.0b2
  • localised Marketplace promo text still an issue bug 663984
  • What's New text (localized?) for every release? (500char max)
  • Carryover from Weds mtg: Maemo support level

QA

  • testplan for Firefox 6 features is complete
    • working on cleanup and organization of feature pages
    • Beta 2
      • Work has started on testing, target ship date?
    • Beta 3 target date?
  • started tracking Firefox 7 features and creating test plans for those features

Marketing & PR

  • Firefox Gone Mobile - SF & London - great success! Report from Wilson/Dan coming soon
  • Mobile Add-Ons campaign for Fall
  • Q3: no big campaigns, focusing on optimizing existing channels to drive usage
  • Android Market description update and optimization w/ Irina

Feedback Summary

Feature Feedback

Feature Name Release Channel Feedback
Do Not Track Beta
Better First Run Discoverability Aurora
  • None
IndexedDB Local Storage Aurora
  • None
Better Form Assistant Integration with Android Aurora
  • None
Visual Refresh for Gingerbread Aurora


General Insights

  • The difference in praise for 5.0 since the release just keeps on increasing!
Clustered Praise Found Release Channel
  • Speed Improved!
  • Input: 32
Beta


Clustered Issues Found Release Channel Bug Id
  • No Flash
  • Input: 37
  • SUMO: New 112 down
All Template:Bug&
  • Clear History
  • Input: 27
  • SUMO: less than 10 new
Beta Template:Bug&
  • Exit button
  • Input: 24
Beta Template:Bug&
  • No Private Browsing
  • Input: 12
  • SUMO: less than 10 new
Beta Template:Bug&
  • No Copy & Paste
  • Input:
  • SUMO: less than 10 new
All Template:Bug&
  • No way to set default zoom
  • Input: 4
Beta Template:Bug&

Support

 

UX and Design

  • UX workweek in Toronto this week
    • working/revising through Brian's tablet draft specs
    • series of blog posts on this starting tomorrow
  • madhava to follow up on readability email sent out (you know who you are, brad and doug)
  • ongoing work on android widget, webapp creation (some detail in a feature page) -- talking to apps team about resourcing

Research

Got great feedback on Firefox Home.

Have your friends and family sign up up to do some user testing on upcoming mobile studies.

Next Wednesday - Users in da House - 2pm-4pm PST

Market Insights

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

  • Opera partnered with Poland's top social network and added features to its cloud-based ad platform for Opera Mini
  • Dolphin HD released v5.1
  • A new version of the Android Market was released
  • Baidu partnered with NTT DoCoMo to build mobile content for Chinese users

More Info

Firefox Sync

Add-on Builder Beta!

Add-on SDK 1.0

Input 4.1

Feedback Summary

Press & Public Reactions

Questions, Comments and Highlights

Actions this week