Firefox/Planning/2012-02-29

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch 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

REMEMBER

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Actions from Last Week

• kev to totes run the meeting this week (with closing dance number)
• lawrence/cheng to come back on uptick in perf concerns on FF11 input

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Sync

• (read the wiki update)
• In Progress:
  • Android Sync
    • Not sure how to file a good android sync bug? http://160.twinql.com/how-to-file-a-good-android-sync-bug
  • Sync 2.0 protocol/Persona(BrowserID) auth integration
    • will not be backwards compatible or interoperable
    • representing significant changes on front & back ends

Add-on SDK

Release (1.5 -> Firefox 10, 11)

• Released 1.5 Last Tuesday!
• Start of Native mobile support: primers here and here!
• Start of l10n support: Docs show you how
• Repacks will be necessary for Firefox 11 compatibility

Stabilization (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)

• On track to release on 3 April, 2012

Development (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)

• On track to merge to Stabilization on 3 April, 2012

More Add-ons News:

• AMO Review queue hit ZERO a couple weeks ago!

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Google

• The French privacy agency announced that Google's new privacy policy, set to go into force on March 1, would violate European data security law.
• Google announced that it would award up to $1m in bounties for any exploits in Google Chrome during the upcoming Pwn2Own Contest on March 7-9. Bounties will be $60K for exploits within the Chrome browser itself, $40K for those that exploit Chrome and additional software (eg Windows or a plugin) and $20K for those that manage to hack the browser without actually using any vulnerabilities in Chrome.
• Google Chrome and Gmail are now more tightly integrated; users visiting gmail.com with Chrome will now be asked whether they would like to open all email links with Gmail.
• Similarly, Google Spreadsheets now has a keyboard acceleration feature that currently works only with Chrome.
• Google announced that Chrome would support "Do Not Track" by the end of the year.
• A trackpad patent filing strongly indicates that Google is considering entering the desktop market with Android.

WebKit

• Samsung contributed code to support the Vibration API and WebSockets now support compression. The JavascriptCore engine received a triple-tier virtual machine, adding a new low level interpreter which is 2 to 2.5 times as fast as the old one. While performance of the triple-tiering engine is neutral on performance tests, reducing the amount of JIT’ed code delivers strong performance improvements ("double digits") on real-world websites.

Javascript

• Brendan Eich started a discussion on es-discuss@mozilla.org about full support for 21-bit Unicode.

Opera

• In an curious story, Opera's App Store company, Handster, decided to submit Opera's competitor, Dolphin HD, to the Blackberry App Store, without permission. Handster says it was all a misunderstanding.

Security

• The CEO of CrowdStrike, a security firm, announced that his company has found a WebKit vulnerability that allows malware to take full control of Android, Blackberry, and iOS phones running the browser, including controlling the camera and microphone and recording conversations.

WebOS

• The open source WebOS project announced that in March they would add support for the OpenAL Soft audio API, the OpenG and WebGL graphics libraries, GStreamer, a new Linux kernel, LevelDB and a USB debugging toolkit.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Desktop

• 3.6.13 to 10.02 MU offer now available

Mobile

• Currently at MWC demoing latest native UI builds.