Firefox/Planning/2012-09-05

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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

These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Actions from Last Week

• Asa/Sheila to run the meeting 2 weeks hence
• Cheng to summarize feedback on PDF.js.

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Add-on SDK

Release (1.9 -> Firefox 15, 16)

Stabilization (1.10 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Development (1.11 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Landing progress:

• loader: ✓

No audible update today, however for an overview of last week's SDK work week please see this post on my blog. Some highlights:

• great progress on navigation toolbar changes
• many P1 issues fixed, reviewed & closed, including the landing of direct proxies which we hope will simplify and speed up SDK code related to content scripts
• close to landing key tabs module support for Native Fennec, which has been a major roadblock for moving forward.

Feedback Summary

User Experience (Design and Research)

No voice update this week, but see below for an overview of all things Design and Research!

•  [Mozcamp]
  • Blake, Stephen and Patryk will be there!
    • Stephen and Patryk giving a talk on App Design Guidelines for Firefox OS

•  [desktop]
  •  [Australis]
    • Usability Testing on Australis Customization Prototype and synthesis results (zhenshuo)

•  [sync/identity] 
  • Designing an Improved Sync Setup Flow / First Run UX on Android (ibarlow)

•  [project SPF (security and privacy)] (larissa)
  • Developing some general cog-sci based user insights for security UX design

• [android] (ibarlow)
  • Google Cloud Messaging
  • Private Browsing / Guest Mode
  • Safe Browsing
  • Improved Sync Setup Flow / First Run UX
  • UI responsiveness tweaks https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/BostonBrainstorm/UIPerf
  • Mocking up ARMV6 (small screen) design tweaks

• [Firefox on B2G/Gaia] (larissa and patryk)
  • New Visual Design work
    • HTTPs Site log-in detail page: http://cl.ly/image/3z3U1T342h0w
    • Crashed Tabs page: http://cl.ly/image/2j471j3b0R3n
    • Crashed Tab in Tabs window: http://cl.ly/image/0I1I2E033G3J
    • Add link to homescreen: http://cl.ly/image/300C0G0A3r1D
  • Minor updates to Mixed Content UI spec, coming soon to Firefox: http://people.mozilla.com/~lco/ProjectSPF/Mixed%20Content%20Spec%20v1.pdf

• [Other/future]
  • Project Hydra, an in-depth ethnography of how people experience and manage their lives online (versus the real world) is complete. Mary Trombley & Lindsay Kenzig led a 2-day workshop to ideate on findings. A final report will be available in the next few weeks. We expect multiple teams will find it useful.
  • Prototye exploration: looking at ways of making dragging URLs into email more interesting / useful by adding text and image snippets (Blake)

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Apple

• 20% of Macs have updated to OS X Mountain Lion

Google

• Google released an updated version of the WebP image library, saying that it now creates files that are up to 26% smaller and could be a replacement for PNG. Beta versions of Chrome support it.
• Google has instrumented their version of telemetry to record and report on the use of -webkit- CSS prefixes across the web.
• Wall Street analysts have estimated the impact of Google Chrome as a driver of increased search and advertising revenue.

Open WebOS

• The Open WebOS team released their first beta, comprising 450,000 lines of code. Here's a short video showing it in use on an Ubuntu build machine

Opera

• Opera's development builds now offer touch support for Windows 8

Twitter

• Twitter joined the Linux Foundation

WebKit

• Development WebKit builds now support a WebGL Inspector tool. Here's a screenshot

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• New hardware launches expected: Apple, Amazon, Windows 8
• China to become the largest smartphone market by shipments in 2012
• The Dolphin browser rumoured to be receiving second round of funding
• Baidu launched an Android browser
• Facebook, Google and Youtube the most popular mobile websites across Asia Pacific
• Android top operating system in SE Asia except for Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

• Focus is on projects and features that will increase ADIs: CDN (done), Stub Installer (green light), Social API (green light - Fx17), Tiger Team (first 4 projects kicking off) and other download projects (in design)

Press

Firefox 16 Adds Charms For Developers

Mozilla previews "command line" in Firefox 16 Beta

Check out the new “command line” Developer Toolbar in Firefox 16

Latest Firefox Beta Offers Powerful New Tools for Web Developers