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Fx16: Reading <shipped>
- Schedule
- Beta: Aug 28, 2012
- GA: Oct 9, 2012
- Key Features
- Reader Mode & Reader List
- User Feedback Solicitation
- A11y Improvements (Explore by Touch up to ICS, Quick Navigation Keys, Talkback)
- Deferred Features
- H.264 - included from Fx 17
- Google Play Campaign Tracking
Fx17: Casting a Wider Net <shipped>
- Schedule
- Feature and String Freeze: Aug 28, 2012
- Beta: Oct 8, 2012
- GA: Nov 20, 2012
- Key Features
- ARMv6 – 800MHz, 512 MB, HVGA
- A11y Improvements (Explore by Touch including JB support)
- Media decoding (H.264) on ICS & JB
- Marketing Campaign ID Tracking (internal feature)
- Updater improvements
Fx18: Searching Effectively <shipped>
- Schedule
- Feature and string freeze: Oct 8, 2012
- Beta: Nov 19, 2012
- GA: Jan 8, 2013
- Key Features
- Product Announcements
- _Support_ for use of custom fonts
- Search Suggestions Opt-In
- Phishing & Malware Protection
Fx19: Making New Friends (shipped)
- Schedule
- Feature and String Freeze: Nov 19, 2012
- Beta: Jan 7, 2013
- GA: Feb 19, 2012
- Key Features
- Light-Weight Themes
- ARMv6 Expanded Support: 600MHz, 512MB, HVGA
- Tile-by-tile drawing
- Low-res tiles
- Mitigating locking (performance optimisation)
- Support for zh-TW and zh-CN
- Fx integration into the Google search widget
Fx20: Private and Personal (shipped)
- Schedule
- Feature and String Freeze: Jan 7, 2013
- Beta: Feb 18, 2013
- GA: Apr 2, 2013
- Key Features
- Private browsing mode (per tab)
- All Android-supported locales
- ARMv6 expanded support: 600MHz, 384MB, QVGA
- Hiding URL Bar
- about:home customization
- Media decoding (H.264) on GB and HC
Firefox 21: Foundations (Shipped)
Schedule
- Tracking Fx21
Nightly: Jan 7, 2013Aurora: Feb 18, 2013Beta: Apr 1, 2013Release: May 14, 2013
Features
- [ON TRACK] Distribution files (theme, bookmarks, pinned sites)
- [ON TRACK] HTML5 compatibility roll-up
- [ON TRACK] New web content font
- [ON TRACK] Amazon search url (updated)
Firefox 22: Simple Pleasures (Shipped)
Schedule
- Tracking Fx22
Nightly: Feb 18, 2013Aurora: Apr 1, 2013Beta: May 13, 2013- Release: Jun 25, 2013
Features
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovak
- State of good repair:
- [ON TRACK] ANR Reporter - Not user facing
- [ON TRACK] Refining Tab UI
- [ON TRACK] Performance improvements - Including WebGL, texture streaming, async canvas updates
Firefox 23: Real Media (Shipped)
Schedule
- Tracking Fx23
Nightly: Apr 1, 2013Aurora: May 13, 2013Beta: Jun 24, 2013- Release: Aug 6, 2013
Features
- [ON TRACK] Firefox Health Report
- [ON TRACK] Dynamic URL bar
- [ON TRACK] L10N foundation improvements
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Turkish
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Hungarian
- [ON TRACK] Awesomebar and Awesomescreen improvements
- [ON TRACK] Reader improvements <==PR to take place in Fx24
- [ON TRACK] UI for changing search engine default in add-on manager
- [ON TRACK] RSS/Atom feed handling
- [ON TRACK] API: Payments <== Not user facing but will be tested soon
Firefox 24: (Shipped)
Schedule
- Tracking Fx24
Nightly: May 13, 2013Aurora: Jun 24, 2013- Beta: Aug 5, 2013
- Release: Sep 17, 2013
Features
- [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, preffed ON
- [ON TRACK] Reader improvements
- [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
- [ON TRACK] Packaged apps foundations, but not exposed until the WebApp Experience has landed
- [ON TRACK] Quickshare
- [ON TRACK] Firefox Icon rebrand
- [ON TRACK] Change default search engine for zh-CN
- [ON TRACK] Add-on definition in distribution files
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Swedish, sv-SE
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: British English, en-GB
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Catalan, ca-ES
- [PROPOSED] Firefox for readers
Firefox 25: (Shipped)
Schedule
- Tracking Fx25
Nightly: Jun 24, 2013Aurora: Aug 5, 2013Beta: Sep 17, 2013- Release: Oct 29, 2013
Features
- [ON TRACK] API: Web Audio
- [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
- [ON TRACK] Settings UI clean-up excluding search provider management
- [ON TRACK] Guest browsing
- [ON TRACK] Page Actions
- [ON TRACK] SkiaGL improvement
- [ON TRACK] Mixed content
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Ukrainian (ua-UK)
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Irish (ga-IE)
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Romanian (ro-RO)
- [ON TRACK] Setting wallpaper bug 886996
- [ON TRACK] Developer Tools: Remote Debugging
Firefox 26: (Shipped)
Schedule
- Tracking Fx26
Nightly: Aug 5, 2013Aurora: Sep 17, 2013Beta: Oct 29, 2013- Release: Dec 10, 2013
Features
- [ON TRACK] AMO discoverability
- [ON TRACK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for en-US, FR, DE, es-ES and en-GB
- [ON TRACK] About:home redesign
- [ON TRACK] search provider management in settings menu
- [ON TRACK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
- [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
Firefox 27: (Shipped)
Schedule
- Tracking Fx27
Nightly: Sep 17, 2013Aurora: Oct 29, 2013Beta: Dec 10, 2013- Release: Feb 4, 2014
Features
- [ON TRACK] Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296
- [ON TRACK] Marketplace discoverability - simple UI polish
- [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
- [ON TRACK] Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475
- [ON TRACK] Memory usage improvements: bug 931843
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN), bug 891616
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th), bug 639845
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt), bug 521999
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl), bug 522008
Firefox 28 (Shipped)
Schedule
Nightly: Oct 29, 2013Aurora: Dec 10, 2013Beta: Feb 4, 2014- Release: March 18, 2014
Features
- [AT RISK]
bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker<==backed out - [ON TRACK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
- [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
- [ON TRACK] bug 943475 - Predictive lookup for awesomebar entries
- [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
- [ON TRACK] Background Thread Hang Reporting bug 932865
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et), bug 946204
Firefox 29 (Shipped)
Schedule
Nightly: Dec 9, 2013Aurora: Feb 4, 2014Beta: March 18, 2014Release: Apr 29, 2014
Px | Status | Project | DRI | Goals * | Epic |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.5 integration | mfinkle | GRO, FXA, ECO | N/A |
P1 | [ON TRACK] | APK Synthesis on by default | myk | DAH, ECO | N/A |
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu | wesj | GRO, REV | N/A |
P2 | [ON TRACK] | Toolbar Refactor | N/A | ||
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Shumway Bundled in Browser but disabled, bug 905668 | GRO, ECO | N/A | |
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Promo snippet for Sync | margaret | GRO, FXA, ECO | N/A |
P2 | [ON TRACK] | Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace | ECO, DAH | N/A | |
P2 | [ON TRACK] | Ability to "Hide" existing panels in about:home (see the full project page for more details) | chenxia | part of Hub | N/A |
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Dynamic snippets support preffed on, bug 862801. UX Signoff: 03/04 | margaret | GRO, REV, ECO | N/A |
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Replace throbber with progress bar bug 917896, bug 959776 | GRO (perf) | N/A |
Firefox 30 (Shipped)
Schedule
Nightly: Feb 3, 2014Aurora: March 18, 2014Beta: April 29, 2014Release: Jun 10, 2014- Check QA Status
Px | Status | Project | DRI | Goals * | Epic |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
[ON TRACK] | Quickshare on the context menu | wesj | GRO | bug 1014021 | |
[ON TRACK] | Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833 | bug 959833 | |||
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Firefox Hub v1 (RSS feed support + 2 add-ons) | margaret | GRO, REV | bug 1014025 |
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Added locale: Argentine Spanish (es-AR), bug 979250 | jbeatty | GRO | N/A |
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Added locale: Mexican Spanish (es-MX), 979251 bug 979251 | jbeatty | GRO | N/A |
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Added locale: Malay (ms), bug 979257 | jbeatty | GRO | N/A |
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Added locale: Latvian (lv), bug 958021 | jbeatty | GRO | N/A |
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 960060 | jbeatty | GRO | N/A |
P1 | [ON TRACK] | Added locale: Belarusian (be), bug 521981 | jbeatty | GRO | N/A |
Watch list:
- Appia
- Amazon
- iOS (long term)
- Specific carrier/partner requirements (placeholder)
- WebRT improvements
- preferred apps, packaged apps, hosted apps
- Carrier value-add services integration
- Short-term requests (2-3 releases from now)
- Always request desktop site
- Improvements to about:home customization (swipe, tap & hold, ...)
- Medium-term requests (4-5 releases from now)
- Metrics/Benchmarking (Octane, jsgamebench, GUIMark3, chalkboard, Ringmark, RoboHornet...)
- WebAPIs: PushNotification, WebPayments, Contacts, WebTelephony, DeviceStorage, WebBluetooth
- Longer-term (over 5 releases from now)
- Add-on story
- PiCL v#
- Security enhancements (fingerprinter reader, scanning downloads, 3rd party plug-ins)
Old Backlog
- iOS support
- X86 support
- Appia
- Updater: ability to push out updates independent of distribution channel
- Legal review of ToS (done - Greg)
- RelEng review of submission process (WIP - Alex)
- Target market: review of addressable base (WIP - Irina)
- Data collection from blocklist pings (WIP - Daniel, Brad)
- Product version
- OS version
- Locale
- Rough location from IP address
- Device model / name
- WebRT improvements
- Multiple screens
- Octane
- HTML5 (input)
- jsgamebench
- GUImark3?
- Chalkboard
- Ringmark?
- Robohornet
- Fingerprint reader
- Scanning downloads
- Plug-ins for 3rd party virus/scanning
- Always request desktop site
- BUG 814667 - save for later phased approach, which phase?
- Data bandwidth usage optimisation -> carrier play / push to marketplace if we're leaner
- Cost control app (parity with FFOS) - how much the browser uses