Firefox/Planning/2012-03-28
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Google
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
These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.
Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop
Release (3.6, 10, 10esr)
Beta (11)
Aurora (12)
Nightly (13)
- Lots of work has landed for the cycle collector focusing on two open tabs (GMail + wikimo) scenario. More work coming for multiple tabs and add-on scenarios.
- For Telemetry consumers - new, easier to remember URL - http://mzl.la/telemetrydash
Firefox Mobile
Firefox Sync
Add-on SDK
Release (1.5 -> Firefox 10, 11)
- Nothing to report
Stabilization (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)
- Release 1.6 next Tuesday. April 3
Development (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)
- Spinning up 1.6RC2 today to take in a small bug-fix patch
- Merge to Stabilization next Tuesday, April 3
- We're making some tweaks to cfx --profiledir - please comment if you have opinions
Other Add-ons News
- Jorge's Add-ons Update talks about efforts to effort to track and stomp leaky add-ons]
Identity
Apps
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Mobile
UX & User Research
Market Insights
Desktop / Platform
- A Wall Street Journal article, summarizing research from Kantar Media, said that Google quadrupled advertising spending in the USA to $213m. Television advertising increased to $70m in 2011 from $6m in 2010.
- Google Play, formerly known as the Android Market, now has updated reporting tools for app publishers to understand their sales.
- In Chromium, CSS Shaders are now arriving, as well as SPDY/3 and flow control.
- Google has received a patent for "Deep Shot", a process by which running application state can be moved between mobile and desktop devices by means of a mobile camera.
Opera
- Opera released 11.62, a minor update
- They also made a new release of Opera 12, which now has 64-bit versions for Windows and Mac, supports HTML5 Drag and Drop and partial support for CSS3 animations. 64-bit support is enabled by running plugins out-of-process.
- They also released an updated version of their Opera Mobile Emulator, which runs on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Microsoft
- A blogger at MSDN posted a detailed summary of how Enhanced Protected Mode in Internet Explorer works.
- Other posts at the IEBlog detailed the default settings for how Windows 8 will launch a browser and describes its support for IndexedDB, including the submission of 100 test cases to the W3C working group.
- Microsoft also submitted a proposal to the IETF for HTTP Speed+Mobility as part of the group's HTTP 2.0 discussions. Microsoft describes its suggestions as extending SPDY to focus more on the needs of mobile devices.
- The Windows Phone App Hub is now open to accept applications from 23 new countries from around the world.
Security
- The Microsoft Malware Protection Center said that there is a new exploit circulating that makes use of a recent Java exploit to take over systems. Other security researchers have said that this exploit is now available in the BlackHole exploit kit, and indeed the Blackhole kit's author is advertising such an update.
GNOME
- Gnome 3.4 is close to arriving, and the Epiphany browser team has a good post summarizing the changes in the default GNOME browser. Most notably the UI has been streamlined considerably.
Tizen
- The Tizen HTML5 browser has scored 378 points at html5test.com, beating all other mobile browsers.