Planning Meeting Details
- Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
- Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
- Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde Conference Room
- irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
- (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)
Video/Teleconference Details - NEW
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
- Vidyo Room: Warp Core
- Vidyo Guest URL
Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop
Release (3.6, 6)
Beta (7)
Aurora (8)
Nightly (9)
Firefox Mobile
Release (6)
Published to Android Market on Tue, Aug 16:
Read full article | see more Press Coverage and PR info below
Beta (7)
Builds started earlier this week. Expected to go into Android Market as "Firefox Beta" end of the week.
Aurora (8)
Nightly (9)
Firefox Sync
- (6) - Sync Discovery
- Beta (7) - Instant Sync
- Firefox Sync Add-on EOL Plan - Phase 1 - Went live last week. ADU's are dropping as expected. Next step is to retire the Sync Add-on entirely with FF 3.6 EOL
- Firefox 9+:
- Improving Sync Set Up - In progress.
- Push to Device - In development.
Add-on Builder
Add-on SDK 1.1
Input 4.3
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Mobile
UX & User Research
Market Insights
Desktop
- A new IE10 demo, drag-n-drop magnetic poetry, was released.
- Microsoft launched a blog for Windows 8 with additional details around a social media strategy concerning the upcoming release. BUILD, Microsoft's new name for its professional developer conference, is taking place the week of September 12th and has already sold out. , It is expected that Windows 8 (and probably IE10) will be released as Beta at BUILD.
- A new stable build of Chrome was released, which includes Instant pages (prefetching of first result on a Google search) and a print preview.
- The new tab page in Chrome has evolved; where previously a user would see history and apps in one place (and their bookmarks if not enabled in the chrome of the browser), now the user is presented with a "swipeable" page, where they can move between the categories Most Visited, Apps and Bookmarks: scrolling is horizontal, rather than vertical.
- Google announced that the latest Beta of Chrome has Native Client integrated for Web Store apps, meaning an app could run C or C++ over the web
- Chinese search engine Baidu released its own Chromium browser, codenamed FlyFlow, it came ready with an app store containing 30,000 apps.
Mobile
Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.
- Google intends to buy Motorola Mobility to consolidate its mobile patent portfolio and potentially also to enter the TV equipment business.
- Android now accounts for 20% of the smartphone installed base of 750 million.
- Opera announced partnerships with:
- Telling Telecom, a mobile phone distributor in China, with whom it launched a mobile browser called Oupeng
- MTN, a carrier operating in South Africa and 20 other African and Middle Eastern countries
- Terra, a Brazil-based Internet company which operates a Web portal and an ISP in the US, Spain and 16 Latin American countries
- Samsung is rumoured to be looking to significantly enhance its software capabilities as it competes with Apple in the smartphone business
- Fusion Garage launches an Android kernel-based mobile, named Grid, which will be featured on a 10-inch tablet and a 4-inch handset
The archive for all weekly Mobile Insights can be found here.
Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
InformationWeek: 6 Key Facts About Firefox 6
International Business Times: Firefox 6: Five things to know
Mobiputing: Firefox 6 for Android: Better tablet support, image improvements
PCMag: Mozilla Releases Firefox 6, For Real
VentureBeat: Mozilla launches Firefox 6 with tasty treats for developers
ZDNet UK: Firefox 6 limbers up for full release
Computerworld: Mozilla shrinks Firefox's memory appetite by 20%-30%
ExtremeTech: Mozilla takes Firefox version numbers to the next level...by removing them
ExtremeTech: How browsers make money, or why Google needs Firefox
WebProNews: Mozilla promises faster Firefox 7