Firefox/Planning/2013-01-09

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 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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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Add-on SDK

Release (1.12 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Stabilization (1.13 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Development (1.14 -> Firefox 19, 20)

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Google

• After much speculation, the United States Federal Trade Commission declared that Google did not perform antitrust practices.
• The set of Google APIs installed in every official Android device have received some additions, notably the ability for app developers to digitally sign, using, in part, Google's certificates, all app requests to the developers' back end servers.
• App developers can also now localize the graphics for their entries in the Google Play Store/.
• Google has disabled "drive by" Chrome extension installations -- extensions installed by third-party programs via the Windows registry mechanism.
• Work has commenced on adding Google Now support to Chrome.
• Local audio streams can now be played via the <audio> element in Chrome.
• Google Wallet will soon be integrated into Chrome.
• Google is also building an extension that allows Chrome users to "project" tabs to any discoverable device.
• Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is in North Korea this week (video)
• In a holiday break mini-story, users complained that Google Maps was not working on Windows Phone 8; Google said it was because it was not using a WebKit-based browser, but later relented and said that they would remove the redirects to enable the site to work on Microsoft's platform.
• At the same time, Microsoft complained that Google is preventing the development of a Windows Phone Youtube app.

W3C and HTML5

• The W3C, for the first time, sent a delegation to the CES trade show in Las Vegas. The Web+TV Interest Group attended the show to promote the open web platform.
• The html5rocks.com website published some interesting demos of CSS Shaders and canvas-driven background images.

Microsoft

• Microsoft posted "Ten reasons why Internet Explorer 10 is best for business", featuring the data from a Forrester report. Microsoft says the report reinforces the need of enterprises to standardize on just one browser, in order to save on additional development costs to support other browsers.
• For the year-end holiday, Microsoft also released PenguinMark, a whimsical browser benchmark for hardware-accelerated HTML5 capabilities.
• Microsoft announced that they have sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses since launch