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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
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Actions from Last Week

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Kilimanjaro

Firefox Desktop

Release (12, 10esr, 3.6)

Beta (13)

Aurora (14)

Nightly (15)

Firefox Mobile

Services

Firefox Sync

Apps In the Cloud Server

Add-on SDK

Released 1.8b4!

No other updates this week due to Add-ons mini-workweek

Identity

Apps

  • Firefox Desktop 14 (Beta) - landed
    • Functionality was backed out - bug 750936
    • Native Install
    • Chromeless launch of apps
  • Firefox Desktop 15 (Aurora)
    • Features: Support of native installation and and chromeless launch of apps for Win and Mac OS
  • Firefox Desktop 16 (Nightly)
    • Fit and polish for K9o requirements
  • Firefox Mobile 15 (Nightly) - in progress
    • Features: Native Install and chromeless window launch
    • Proposed marketplace bundling with Fennec is an open issue. See bug 738545
  • Apps in the Cloud
    • AITC client for desktop landed for FF15

Developer Tools/Experience

  • Firefox 15 (Aurora)
    • Debugger
      • includes remote debugging for Fennec
      • need to watch Aurora feedback closely
    • Responsive Mode
      • Mentioned last month, preffed on last week
      • Test responsive layouts without resizing your whole browser
    • Layout view
      • Added to Style Inspector
      • Shows at-a-glance metrics like height, width, padding for the selected element
    • Developer toolbar will be on the next train.
  • End-to-end Apps tutorial draft
    • there's a draft on MDN
    • this content will be presented directly on the Marketplace site
  • Prototype of Open Web Apps Bootstrap up

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Mobile

Firefox Beta for Android fixed the top three user issues with the product (start-up performance, browsing performance and flash support).

Overall for beta4/5 feedback is good; 4 stars.

Beta4/5 user issues:

  • Photon 4g continues to generate low reviews
  • A couple of instability reports and a couple of website incompatibility reports (techcrunch)

Beta 4/5 requests:

  • Text selection
  • Fewer permissions

Documentation:

  • Completing documentation of single sync client requirement for beta/aurora/nightly users before installing release
  • Updating supported devices documentation
  • Need to update language support documentation
  • Need to clarify tablet support and compatibility

UX & User Research

UR ran some usability tests on the Firefox Beta. We found that basic tasks (search, bookmarking, tabs) were easy for participants to complete. There are some questions around the search accelerators in the Top Sites tab, and of course typing is still painful. UR will work with UX to figure out how to manage. Anyone who wants to see raw video footage of the tests can contact Mary Trombley.

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Apple

  • Apple was granted 22 patents covering everything from industrial design to a futuristic 3D Apple TV remote and even a way that Apple envisions of harnessing power through electromagnetic induction to help extend battery life on iOS devices.

Microsoft

  • The 6th Platform Preview for IE10 now includes the latest preview update for IE10. It includes an embedded Adobe Flash Player, which has been improved to support touch gestures. It is also integrated with the Process Lifetime Manager to better improve battery life in the Metro environment. Flash will also be bundled with the operating system and will receive improvements through Windows Update.
  • The new release preview also sends a Do Not Track header by default, the first web browser to do so.
  • IE10 now supports unprefixed versions of CSS transitions, transforms, animations, gradients, and CSS Fonts’ font-feature-settings property, as well as platform APIs such as the Indexed Database API (IndexedDB) and requestAnimationFrame().
  • IE10 will also no longer support IE4's visual filters and transitions for anything other than intranet sites
  • Interesting, Microsoft is going to great lengths to force adoption of the Metro-style interface, even to the point of emoving all code from Windows 8 referencing the Start button/menu to prevent third-party developers from creating a workaround allowing people to continue using it
  • Microsoft's Bing Mobile team released On-Ex, an Android application that is a sort of "if this then that" for mobile phones. Powered by Javascript, it offers some interesting API calls -- modeOfTransport returns whether the user is walking, running or driving.
  • Analysts are estimating that new Windows RT tablets will be in the $500-$700 price range, which raises concerns for their viability

Google

Security

Tizen

  • A Tizen developer ran the RingMark test on Tizen, Android, and iPhone smartphones. Tizen was the clear leader with 141 passed Ring 1 tests.

Gaming

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.


  • Opera announced it reached 189.6 million mobile users, a new version of Opera Mini for basic phones and a partnership with America Movil and one with Bharti Airtel
  • 65% of all Androids run Gingerbread, 19% Froyo and 7% Ice Cream Sandwich
  • The hardware section of the Play Store expansing with accessories
  • Researchers found security flaws in Google Bouncer
  • HTC and Sony partnered to augment their mobile offerings
  • First Android device on x86 architecture available in Europe
  • Samsung Galaxy S III landing in market, Galaxy Note 2 rumoured to launch in October
  • Asus, Acer and Toshiba to be among Windows 8 tablet manufacturers
  • Video of Tizen on Samsung reference device available
  • By 2015 smartphones will account for 75% of new phones sold

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

  • Finalizing materials for releases later this week; getting started on the next round of releases.

Press


Questions, Comments, FYI

Actions this week

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