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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

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Kilimanjaro

Firefox Desktop

Release (12, 10esr, 3.6)

Beta (13)

  • FF13 beta 4 will be released on Friday

Aurora (14)

Nightly (15)

Bug 754133 - Set background of standalone images (the image itself, not the whole page) to white

Firefox Mobile

  • Fennec Native 14 beta 1 is now live on Google Play
  • We expect our next beta of Fennec Native (released as early as 5/17) to be multi-locale with the same 13 localizations as XUL Fennec previously
  • Day 1 Adoption
    • Installs: 785,103 (+3.45% from yesterday)
    • Active installs: 209,076 (+14.32%)
    • Total Beta ADIs: 39,224 (+66.34%)
    • ADIs on 14.0: 15,345 (39% of total ADIs)

Services

Firefox Sync

  • Beta is out! \o/
  • Please remember you can have only 1 native sync per android device, so no you cannot have Aurora & Beta syncing at the same time. Read Why Here

Apps In the Cloud Server

  • Regular deployment happening.

Add-on SDK

Release (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)

  • Released SDK 1.7 yesterday
    • mixed bouquet of new features and important bug fixes
    • css-only page-mods, l10n pluralization goodness
    • configurable contentURL property for panel and widget!
    • many bug fixes

Stabilization (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)

  • on-track for release Tuesday June 26th
  • first beta release either today or tomorrow?

Development (1.9 -> Firefox 14, 15)

  • Firefox 15 / memory leak issues mitigated by latest khuey patch
    • still planning to spin up a campaign to get older extensions re-packed, because its the right thing to do
    • more plannig for this will happen at the Addons work week, June 4.

Identity

Apps

  • Firefox Desktop 14 (Aurora) - landed
    • Looking to back out this functionality - bug 750936
    • Native Install
    • Chromeless launch of apps
  • Mozillian Marketplace Release is out! Thanks for the feedback so far!
    • Please be mindful that this is an internal release and of alpha quality. Early access is limited to Mozillians and partners for testing, so please do not tweet, communicate or share screenshots, features or details about the Marketplace for now.
    • Download Firefox Desktop Nightly (Fx15)
    • Have a look at the wiki to learn more about the testing procedure.
    • If you run into any hiccups, you can report them to apps-feedback@mozilla.com.
    • Once you’re done, there’s also an online survey for you to fill out.
  • Firefox Desktop 15 (Nightly)
    • Working on fixing bugs - mostly fit and polish to fit Kilimanjaro requirements
  • 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

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Firefox 12 issues summary:

We currently have a 5% increase in issues over Firefox 11. This seems to be a combination of issues including:

Firefox 12 is slow - Thread was originally about a gfx card issue, but I think it turned into a pile on thread https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/926621 [1] [2]

Foxit Reader causing Hotmail issues: Solution is to rollback to an older version of Foxit. This combined with the Adobe Reader article is sticky. [3] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/926740 [4] [5]

PDF Issues on Mac - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/775819 [6] [7] [8]

Firefox 12 consumes too much memory - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/927004 [9] [10] [11]

Copy/Paste Image - Fixed - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749527 [12] [13]

Firefox 12 incorrectly caching pages - Bug filed - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748647 [14]

Incompatible Norton Toolbar: Need to update norton 360 and norton internet security suite. [15] [16]


FF12 praise summary, down 6% from FF11:

fast: [17] [18] [19]

ui: [20] [21]

stable: [22] [23] [24]

Mobile

UX & User Research

UX Design

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Adobe

  • After initially requiring users to pay hundreds of dollars to receive security fixes for vulnerabilities in Flash Professional, Illustrator, and other products, Adobe has relented and will now provide them for free

Apple

  • A fairly significant security issue was found in Safari's handling of input in the URL bar; a fix is expected shortly

Google

Microsoft

  • Microsoft posted a detailed summary, with video of how social sharing of links and other content from IE10 will work on Windows 8.
  • Senate Judiciary Committee staffers plan to take a look at allegations that Microsoft has made it difficult for competing Web browsers to run on a certain version of Windows, an aide told a political blog
  • A leaked version of the upcoming Preview Release of IE10 shows an improved score on html5test.com

Opera

  • There are rumours that Opera will be porting its Opera Mobile browser to the upcoming Windows Phone platform
  • Opera Mini was also released for the Samsung Bada platform

WebKit

  • CSS Variables are coming to WebKit
  • The tab-size property is now supported, and work has begun on the Media Capture API

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

  • Updated Android version distribution numbers are available
  • Google's Motorola acquisition expected to be completed soon
  • Android 5.0, code-named Jelly Bean, rumoured to be released in fall with multiple flagship devices
  • Baidu to be releasing Yi-based devices
  • 56.1% of smartphone shipments in Q1 featured Android
  • Samsung confirmed as top mobile phone vendor by shipments in Q1

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

Press

Firefox for Android Preps for Prime Time

Mozilla updates Firefox for Android with Adobe Flash support

Firefox 14 beta for Android released

Hands on with Mozilla Firefox OS Boot to Gecko[25]

Questions, Comments, FYI

Actions this week

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