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
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop
Release (3.6, 10, 10esr)
Beta (11)
Aurora (12)
Nightly (13)
- Do you use or want to use data collected by Telemetry? We're starting to work on the Telemetry dashboard UX. Please provide your thoughts on the Telemetry dashboard, what works, what doesn't, what you've find useful in bug 736484 or contact Lawrence Mandel.
Firefox Mobile
Firefox Sync
Add-on SDK
Release (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)
- Released 1.6 yesterday!
- lots of bugfixes
- biggest addition is the brand new documentation
Stabilization (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)
- Merged dev to stabilization yesterday
- On track to release 15 May 2012
Development (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)
- On track to merge to Stabilization 15 May 2012
- More interesting things to look out for in the future
- landing the loader in Firefox
- capacity to more easily share modules
- porting portions of tools from python to js
Identity
Apps
- B2G can now install Apps. Cool.
- Firefox Desktop 14 Aurora
- Native Install
- Chromeless launch of apps
- Firefox Mobile 14 Aurora
- Native install
- Chromefull launch of Marketplace and apps
- Proposed Android solution is to bundle the marketplace with Firefox. More coming on this.
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Mobile
UX & User Research
Market Insights
Desktop / Platform
Amazon
- Amazon released an update for the Silk Browser included with the Kindle Fire. It includes a "Reading View" feature: "When invoked by the customer, Silk will load the body of the page in a reading-optimized, single screen view (even for multi-page articles). The full page is still available in the background, allowing the reader to easily toggle back to a traditional view to see other interesting features on the page." Some early reviews have been mixed, noting that it sometimes renders multi-page articles in the wrong order.
- Google released version 1 of the Go programming language
- The Chrome Web Store has some improved app and extension discovery features: a trending lens, app subcategories, search box autocomplete, and app badges.
- The Chromium and Beta Channels were updated, including 9 security fixes, including one with SPDY proxy certificate checking
- A UI developer took screenshots of the Google homepage using 14 different Android browsers
Webkit
- A Samsung developer landed support for the Network Information API, albeit only for the EFL port.
- Facebook open-sourced Ringmark, a browser test suite for building apps on the mobile web.
Microsoft
- Microsoft summarized how different display types and sizes will be handled in Windows 8.
- Another post describes how pinned sites will work with the Windows 8 start screen
Adobe
- Adobe released an updated version of Flash, the last standalone version for the Linux platform, that requires that developers pay a 9% royalty on revenues over $50,000 for applications that make use of two new performance APIs. Gamasutra published a good summary of how Flash developers feel about it.
- Adobe's latest Flash update introduces an auto-updater on Windows.
Apple
- Sencha posted a detailed overview of HTML5 support in the updated iOS 5 platform.
Opera
- The latest Opera 12 snapshot includes a "opera:cpu" page, which shows the CPU use of every open tab.
WebM
- The WebM project announced that more chip vendors have introduced hardware support for the video protocol, including Rockchip and ST-Ericsson. Smart TVs with full HD WebM support are coming to the market from LG Electronics this spring, with other OEMs following soon after.
Mobile
Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.
- 64% of Androids run on Gingerbread, 23% on Froyo and 3% on Ice Cream Sandwich
- Minor update to Ice Cream Sandwich has been pushed to the Android Open Source repository
- Android has captured 50% of all smartphones in the US
- Searches from smartphones and tablets combined will generate 25% of Google's paid search clicks in the US by the end of 2012
- The European Commission began an antitrust investigation of Motorola Mobility with regards to mobile patents
- The European Commission extended a cap on roaming fees for voice and SMS enacted price limits on roaming data fees
- The Nokia Lumia 900, the flagship device for Windows Phone 7 for the US market, has had its first reviews
- Nokia is rumoured to be planning to launch 2 new Linux-based low-end devices for the emerging markets
- Opera released a privacy-conscious mobile campaign tracker solution
Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
Desktop
- Working on billboards for 3.6 EOL release. L10n is the blocker.
- Preparing comms and collaterral for next release.