Fennec/NativeUI/Showcase1-25

• To refresh on the list of Features and their priority, click here.
• To refresh on the plan of record per Toronto's offsite, click here.
  
• To see baseline vs. current reality, click here: here
  

ADU update

• Aurora - % from last week
• Nightly - % from last week
• Beta - %
• Aurota - %

Schedule

Q4

• Dec 2011: Feature Complete

Q1

• Jan 16 2012: String Freeze ==> Jan 30th (lock-step with cutover)
• Jan 16 2012: First Run Walk-Through ==> needs to be reset; pending profile migration which is getting closer
• Jan 30 2012: Beta Cutover & Beta Declare
• Feb 27 2012: Public Announcement at Mobile World Congress
• March 30 2012: Final Release

Beta Readiness

Features

• Split-APK
  • Status: Waiting for the fix for 719560
  • Requires: QA testing on tablets/phones once posted
  • Fallback options: Push XUL to all for the time being, only push to tablets, hold off on pushing altogether
• Profile migration
  • Status: Waiting on the fix for 713283
  • Requires: QA test plan and verification (kbrosnan: test cases are complete & ready to go)
• L10N
  • Required for String Freeze for Fx11 (Jan 30th):
• Marketing/PR
  • Johnath's blog post on trains: will be pushed today
  • Press release for beta being in progress

(P0) Stability and Performance

Crashes

• • % of crashes that occur within .5s of startup and compare to XUL over nightly/aurora (smooney can help)
  • Devices that are crashing on launch (0?)
  • How many crashes in the top X has not exhausted QA/engineering possibilities for reproduction
  • Explanation of aurora/nightly population, affect on our testing

https://metrics.mozilla.com/pentaho/content/pentaho-cdf/RenderHTML?solution=metrics&path=blocklist_fennec/blocklist_fennec0&dashboard=template.html&template=new-metrics&title=Fennec%20Usage

• • Explanation of apples vs oranges
  • Web content crashes didn't appear in XUL
  • We're doing more in Java, so there will be more Java crashes

Goals Related to Competitive Browsers

• Raw Start: To be within 200MS of the Stock Browser for

[See Video]

• Warm Start with Page Load: We need to be within an acceptable range with Stock and faster than Opera

[See Video]

• Scrolling Panning, Zooming, and Frame Rate should meet or exceed customer expectations when compared to other mobile browsers

[See Video]

• XUL Beta vs. Java: What will users see?

[See Video]

• XUL Beta vs. Java on Droid Pro

[See Video]

Compared to XUL: Where are we Better, Where are we worse?

• Better: We use less memory, we now have async panning & zooming, faster frame rate, sync now runs in the background,
• Worse: Checkerboarding, Closing tabs, Loading multiple pages at the same time, possibly tab restore

• Worse: What are we doing about it and when?

Checkerboarding and responsiveness changes in flight, targeted to land prior to beta:

Other Top Issues and Their Status

Website Compatibility

(Two-pronged approach)

• John Jensen is POC: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708406
• Evangelism Bugs
• Screenshot comparisons of top-30-Alexa against Native Fennec/Android AOSP Browser/Opera (AaronMT)
  • ICS, Gingerbread, Froyo

MTD Update

MTD feedback in order of frequency:

• "Feeling zippier"
• Sync <--- people still want sync
• Remaining checkerboarding
• Localizations
• Unzooming during page load
• Frame rate when scrolling
• Top sites still don't work
• Flash on ICS