Firefox/Planning/2012-05-09

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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

• dcm to find updated states of sdk usage in new addons
  • In Add-on SDK Section!
• thunder/mconnor - update on identity+sync
• michelleluna - look at gmail feedback for aurora this week (doesn't reload); Answer: there is no input data to suggest a widepsread reloading Gmail issue in Firefox, I see only 6 comments out of 999 related to Gmail and none about not reloading, see input.mozilla.org/en-US/?product=firefox&version=14.0a2&date_start=2012-04-25&date_end=&q= A more generic search for 'google' also surfaces no comments about mail issues.

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Nightly (14)

• Owen Carpenter, John Rietveld, Devon Sayles, and Zuhao (Joe) Chen from Michigan State's CSE Capstone program landed in-content prefs (preffed off) and tests into m-c last night. To see this great work, set browser.preferences.inContent to true. Congratulations to that team. Thanks to Jared Wein for his mentoring and to Unfocused for his code reviews. See In-Content Preferences for Firefox may be here in 16 weeks for .ore,
• bug 650353 have one global object per compartment
• bug 752877 Cut wrappers after firing [inner,outer]-window-destroyed.
• bug 716439 Implement clipping to rectangles with rounded corners on the GPU
• bug 674225 support the Opus voice codec in <audio> and <video> elements
• bug 641892 Support showing multiple popup notification icons at the same time
• bug 743877 tab switching shouldn't occur off a timeout
• bug 664918 Infrastructure for media stream graph processing
• bug 650988 Do image scaling on the GPU
• bug 748785 Enable NPAPI Async drawing model by default on windows
• bug 166240 Implement D3E KeyboardEvent.location (except JOYSTICK)
• bug 478927 Need a way from chrome to know when error pages load
• bug 726366 spdy should support tunnel through http proxy
• bug 377624 Implement the accept attribute for the form and file upload controls form "image/*"

Add-on SDK

Release (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)

% of all new add-ons uploaded to AMO that are built with Add-on SDK (these are rough numbers identified only by GUIDs beginning with "jid")

Jan 35.27%
Feb 29.2%
Mar 34.15%
Apr 30.34% 

Stabilization (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)

• Released 1.7RC2 yesterday - please test
• On track to release 15 May 2012 (next Tuesday!)

Development (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)

• On track to merge to Stabilization 15 May 2012
• Spring cleaning! We need add-on developers to give comments on a couple of issues on items we want to change. Much more detail on the add-ons blog.
• Memshrink goes on - and we have decisions to make on what to do about SDK-based add-ons on AMO that use very old versions of the SDK with known leaks.
  • The quick answer is for everyone with an add-on to rebuild it with a new version of the SDK.
  • The not-so-quick answer is being discussed.

Apps

• Firefox Desktop 14 (Aurora) - landed
  • Looking to back out this functionality - bug 750936
  • Native Install
  • Chromeless launch of apps
• Firefox Desktop 15 (Nightly)
  • Working on fixing bugs - mostly fit and polish to fit Kilimanjaro requirements
  • Defining Hometab promotion of apps
  • Defining Newtab launchpad of apps

• Firefox Mobile 15 (Nightly) - in progress
  • Work started in Fx14 continues in 15.
  • Proposed marketplace bundling with Fennec is an open issue. See bug 738545

• Apps in the Cloud
  • AITC client continues
  • AITC Server - Completed

Developer Experience

• Responsive Design View has been added to Kilimanjaro. Currently targeting Firefox 15.
• We're also still targeting Firefox 15 for the JavaScript Debugger, which also has remote debugging capability for Android and B2G.
• Also aiming for Firefox 15 for the Developer Toolbar. This feature will start pulling the tools together and providing quick keyboard access via a command line.
• The last major missing piece of functionality for the Firefox developer tools is a network view. Firebug leader Jan (Honza) Odvarko has extracted this functionality from Firebug into a separate addon called HTTP Monitor. The goal is to try sharing this code between Firebug and Firefox. They're also working on making this remotable like the JavaScript Debugger. We're hoping to have this functionality in Firefox soon, but not Firefox 15.
• The Apps developer ecosystem team is making good progress on their projects, including the first documentation "track" that takes web developers from beginning to end through an application. They are also building a "bootstrap" application template that Apps developers can use to get their projects started. More news on these as we get closer to release. These are part of Kilimanjaro.

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Android

• In an interesting experiment, a development team led by Miguel de Icaza ported much of the Android OS' environment to C#.

Security

• Adobe released a new beta of Flash Player for Mac OS X that supports silent updates.
• Concern was raised in the press that the impending arrival of Mac OS X Mountain Lion will mean that nearly half of all Mac users will no longer receive security patches

Microsoft

• Microsoft has started mailing "Save the Date" invitations to Windows Phone developers for June 20-21 conference in San Francisco.

Opera

• Opera posted their Q1 2012 financial results. Total revenue for the quarter was $47m, up 28% from the previous year, and net income was up 76%.

Research in Motion

• RIM posted the latest version of bbUI, their HTML5 toolkit that makes HTML5 apps work more seamlessly on their platform.

Tizen

• Sprint, the American wireless carrier, announced that it was joining the Tizen Association
• Tizen also announced more details about their upcoming developer conference, and noted that most of the sessions would be streamed over the web.

WebKit

• The WebKit Inspector tool now offers web socket packet inspection

W3C

• A new proposal by W3C member Florian Rivoal offers a potential solution to the CSS vendor-prefix issue. It would require browser vendors to support both prefixed and unprefixed features from day one, with aliases between the two.

Other

• The Trustworthy Internet Movement launched SSLPulse, a "continuous and global dashboard for monitoring the quality of SSL support across the top one million web sites. "
• An interesting piece by Technology Review magazine about how they, and other magazine and newspaper publishers are looking to move away from proprietary platforms and to HTML5.