Firefox/Planning/2012-09-19

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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

2 carry-overs from this week

• Matt/Cheng to collate PDF.js feedback
• Gavin to update on the state of 3rd party add on drops

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: ✓

Feedback Summary

Mobile

Release Again, everything this week has been fairly quiet in SUMO land on the Mobile Side. 15.0.1 is performing well, reviews are trending up.

Beta We have started to gather Feedback from Input for Firefox Mobile Beta, already using it to look at trends. Read the Mobile Meeting notes for more.

The largest Issue for Firefox Beta is a crash on Nexus 7 which is by far the largest crash issue on Input.

Market Insights

Desktop/Platform

Accessibility

• An independent review found that Firefox on Windows has the best overall HTML5 accessibility features among all major browsers. Firefox scored 86/100 with other browsers scoring either 18, 40, or 45.

Amazon

• Amazon has confirmed that it "tracks webpages visited by Kindle Fire users with its Silk web browser to produce suggestions based on trends."
• All the new Kindle Fires released will use Microsoft's Bing search engine

Browsers

• Paul Irish has published a good summary of recent academic research into frontend and browser development.

Google

• Chrome for Android [chrome.blogspot.ca/2012/09/chrome-for-android-just-got-safer.html now includes the full multiprocess Chrome sandbox].
• Google announced that they were dropping support for Internet Explorer 8 from all their web services, as of November 15. Some analysts have interpreted this move as a "bald attempt to get them to switch browsers to Google's Chrome".
• Support for Do Not Track has landed in Chromium

Microsoft

• Microsoft posted some interesting statistics regarding the growth of malicious cross-site scripting attacks on the web, and describing how Internet Explorer's XSS Filter addresses them.
• In Europe, Maxthon has replaced the Safari browser in the Windows Browser Ballot screen.
• Microsoft has also pledged to comply with any requests made by the EU regarding the support of third-party browsers on Windows 8
• Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows 8 will launch on October 25

Opera

• Opera now requires that all addons be installed via a trusted whitelist. The default whitelist is http://addons.opera.com.

Privacy

• Roy Fielding, a lead Apache developer, has added a patch to the Apache server codebase so that it will ignore the privacy settings from Internet Explorer 10 browsers

Security

• A shortcoming in browsers including Firefox and Opera allows crooks to easily hide an entire malicious web page in a clickable link - ideal for fooling victims into handing over passwords and other sensitive info.
• The German government has asked its citizens to stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer due to a newly-found security hole.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• New iPhone launch will maintain Apple at ~20% shipment marketshare for 2012
• Amazon continues tablet strategy with new Kindle Fire releases
• Foxconn, Samsung to build factories in Brazil, Indonesia
• Chrome accounts for 2.7% of iOS Web traffic
• First Motorola Intel-based smartphone announced for Europe and Latin America
• Android reached 500 million activations

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

Meeting conflict; here's an update:

• In the middle of planning release communications: Main themes for Firefox 16: Dev tools, Silent updates now here. Firefox 17 Beta: Social API
• Main focus continues to be on ADI growth and the features and projects that will help that: Stub Installer, a new batch of download optimization projects and more

Mobile

• We've reached 1 Million ADIs and 6 million active installs last week!
• about:home android snippet is still live, and is having an effect on downloads
• Sent a one-off email about new tablets support to 7M of our users
• In the Google Play Store Communication category, Firefox increased from #27 to #12 in the last 30 days (we have higher placement than all other browsers except for Chrome)
• Review Solicitation is proving to be a valuable tool: the number of issues reported at input.mozilla.org have increased 3-4x, thereby providing a level of feedback we have not previously had

Press

Mark working from London today; here's an update: Currently working with PMM's on blog posts for 10/9 release cycle.

Google Chrome Finally Jumps on the ‘Do Not Track’ Bandwagon

Google Chrome To Get 'Do Not Track

When the Privacy Button Is Already Pressed

German government tells public to stop using Internet Explorer