Firefox/Planning/2012-08-22

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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# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Actions from Last Week

• Sam M to confirm whether we are using the Android Market's new privacy policy field
• Blassey to confirm that we have a locked in plan of record for other localizations
• Matt and Benjamin to chase down details about how broad the latest adobe chemspill is (i.e. should we change our SUMO advice around 11.2, 10.3?)

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

• Firefox 15 beta 6 is underway, should be going out to the beta channel late today, early tomorrow if QA sign off isn't ready yet
• Firefox 15 SignOffs meeting notes

Add-on SDK

Release (1.9 -> Firefox 15, 16)

Stabilization (1.10 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Development (1.11 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Landing progress:

• loader: ✓
• modules: bug 756542 ('Implement make files to include SDK modules in builds') landed yesterday.
• discussing next steps at the team work week next week.

Market Insights

Adobe

• Adobe made the second critical security fix release in a week for the Flash Player, fixing six important vulnerabilities.

Google

• Google has announced Pwnium 2, another Chromium hacking competition. Held on October 10th in Kuala Lumpur, it will feature a total prize pool of $2m, with "full chrome exploits" receiving $60,000 each.
• Google also announced Octane, a Javascript performance testing suite that they feel offers broader and more relevant coverage of "real world" Javascript use. Mozilla's pdf.js library is one of the tests used.
• Newer builds of Chromium now include CodeMirror as an editing tool, as an experiment, as well as the ability to use CSS Exclusions.

Microsoft

• Microsoft posted an interesting "behind the scenes" video about their new Windows Phone Dev Center.

Opera

• Opera has renewed their Google search engine agreement. It is effective for the next two years, expiring in August 2014.

Web Standards

• The Dolphin browser claims to be the first mobile browser to pass all of the Ringmark tests.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• Smart updates reported on for the Google Play Store
• Galaxy Note 2 expected to be revealed soon in Berlin
• Jurors in the trial concerning IP on mobile devices between Samsung and Apple to begin deliberations
• Recent shipment data shows intense competition in the Android OEM space
• China now has more mobile internet users than desktop ones
• China remains top producer of mobile devices; Economist briefing on Huawei
• New announcements in the mobile payments market

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Press

Move over Chrome, preview of Firefox for Windows 8 expected in September

Firefox 17 to make add-ons more secure