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Last updated: 2014/07/22

Roadmap

Firefox 31 (Shipped)

Schedule

  • Nightly: Mar 17, 2014
  • Aurora: April 29, 2014
  • Beta: June 10, 2014
  • Release: Jul 22, 2014
  • Check QA Status
Px Status Project DRI Goals * Epic
P2 [ON TRACK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home, not via drag and drop (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 959917 lucasr GRO bug 959917
[ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete) margaret GRO, REV bug 1014030
[ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts wesj GRO bug 1014035
[ON TRACK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons wesj GRO bug 1014037
[ON TRACK] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data wesj GRO bug 1014038
[ON TRACK] UX Telemetry chenxia GRO bug 1014044
[ON TRACK] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Maithili (mai), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn) (*note - mai not releasing in build) jbeatty GRO TBD
[ON TRACK] EOL official Android 2.2 support bug 1017242

Firefox 32 (Beta)

Schedule

  • Nightly: Apr 28, 2014
  • Aurora: June 10, 2014
  • Beta: July 22 2014
  • Release: Sep 2, 2014
  • Check QA Status
Px Status Project DRI Goals * Epic
[ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v3 (bugfixes & polish + more add-ons) margaret GRO, REV bug 1014032
[ON TRACK] Suggested sites v1 lucasr GRO bug 988366
[ON TRACK] Contextual tips for users ibarlow GRO TBD
[ON TRACK] UI lang switching rnewman GRO bug 917480
[ON TRACK] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync (bug 958889) ibarlow ECO bug 958889
[ON TRACK] Add a Clear History control to the history panel bug 998009 margaret GRO bug 998009
[ON TRACK] Android Gamepad backend bug 852935 Ted ECO bug 852935
[ON TRACK] Support weighted snippets bug 1002567 margaret GRO, ECO bug 1002567

Firefox 33 (Aurora)

Schedule

  • Nightly: Jun 9, 2014
  • Aurora: July 22, 2014
  • Beta: Sept 2, 2014
  • Release: Oct 14, 2014
Px Status Project DRI Goals * Epic
[ON TRACK] Videocasting (Roku, Firefly, Chromecast) wesj ECO bug 921924
[AT RISK] Tab mirroring (Roku, Firefly, Chromecast) blassey ECO bug 1037018
[ON TRACK] Form auto-fill improvements - Backend ibarlow GRO TBD
P1 [ON TRACK] OEM distro service rnewman GRO bug 1020032
[ON TRACK] Suggested sites v2 (Distribution support & non-Mozilla suggested sites) lucasr GRO bug 1034180
[ON TRACK] Tabs updates and improvements margaret GRO bug 1042138
P2 [ON TRACK] Privacy: option to clear history on exit or after a certain amount of time. GRO

Firefox 34 (Nightly)

Schedule

  • Nightly: Jul 21, 2014
  • Aurora: Sept 2, 2014
  • Beta: Oct 14, 2014
  • Release: Nov 25, 2014
Px Status Project DRI Goals * Epic
[PROPOSED] Search activity v1 mfinkle GRO, REV bug 1017135
[PROPOSED] Moz Stumbler garvan TBD bug 1032506
[PROPOSED] Share handler overlay (bug 948509) TBD
[PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements, native client-side work bnicholson GRO TBD
[PROPOSED] Reflow on zoom (double tap) by default
[PROPOSED] Kindle-related fixes rnewman bug 956964
[PROPOSED] Hub add-on: speed-dial panel margaret GRO TBD
[PROPOSED] First-run tips ibarlow GRO TBD
[PROPOSED] Preferred web content language rnewman GRO bug 881510
[PROPOSED] Tablets: tabbed browsing refresh v1 lucasr GRO bug 1014156
[PROPOSED] Suggested sites v3 lucasr GRO TBD

Firefox 35

Schedule

  • Nightly: Sept 2, 2014
  • Aurora: Oct 14, 2014
  • Beta: Nov 24, 2014
  • Release: Jan 6, 2014
Px Status Project DRI Goals * Epic
[PROPOSED] Tablets: tabbed browsing refresh v2 lucasr GRO bug 1024426

Firefox 36

Schedule

  • Nightly: Oct 14, 2014
  • Aurora: Nov 24, 2014
  • Beta: Jan 5, 2015
  • Release: Feb 17, 2015
Px Status Project DRI Goals * Epic
[PROPOSED] Tablets: tabbed browsing refresh v3 lucasr GRO bug 1024427

Project Funnel

P* - TO BE PRIORITIZED

Px Status Project DRI Goals * Epic
Tab sharing (WebRTC) blassey GRO, ECO TBD
Ability for add-ons to customize UI sound effects bug 1030363 Done but not a 'shippable' item. Promotion plan needed.

P1

Px Status Project DRI Goals * Epic
P1 Janus snorp GRO, ECO, REV TBD
P1 Non-multilang build localizations
P1 Mozilla-hosted distribution and update channels for Beta and GA
P1 Change default search engine in Nightly, Aurora & Beta to Yahoo! REV TBD
P1 Improve UX of error pages
P1 Ability to reset profile
Settings Rewrite (includes: Create 'Add-ons' Page in Settings bug 892125 and Reorder Home Panels in Settings Via Drag and Drop bug 974983)
P1 Provide magnifying glass in areas of clustered links (bug 663803)
Firefox Hub: Add new My Panel from Promotional Banner margaret GRO TBD
API: Push notifications ?? ECO TBD
P1 User survey on uninstall GRO TBD
P1 Improved "Send Tab to Device" Experience bug 1002628 ibarlow ECO, GRO TBD
P1 User-hand-holding to check the Unknown Sources checkbox (bug 986085) jhugman ECO TBD
P1 Turn on HTTPS for Bing and Yahoo (need bug#s) TBD
P1 Create minimal start-up paths for WebApps, service workers and Fennec mfinkle GRO TBD
P1 Product announcements reboot arcadio TBD
P1 RTL support mfinkle GRO TBD
P1 API: Contacts (incl permissions bump) ECO TBD
P1 Geolocation services (incl permissions bump) ECO TBD
P1 API: Web activities ECO TBD
P1 Promo snippet for Marketplace ECO TBD
P1 Firefox Hub: Marketplace discovery feed add-on ECO TBD
P1 Privacy: DDG as a built in search engine GRO TBD
P1 PDF.js support GRO TBD

P2

Px Status Project DRI Goals * Epic
P2 Password handling improvements GRO TBD
P2 Use System download manager on GB+ bug 816318
P2 IDE support
P2 Service integration: Backup and restore GRO, ECO, FXA TBD
P2 MozPay integration REV, ECO, FXA TBD
P2 Webapps: register webapps for handling filetypes/actions ECO TBD
P2 Multiprocess Firefox on Android GRO TBD
P2 Service-backed send tab GRO, ECO, FXA? TBD
P2 Kid browsing GRO, REV TBD
P2 Privacy: option to always use private browsing GRO TBD

P3

Px Status Project DRI Goals * Epic
P3 Ambient reading list
P3 Multiple profile support
P3 Implement input type=color (bug 875750)
P3 Kitkat download integration ?? TBD
P3 Toolset for distributors
P3 Directional console navigation
P3 SNAV support
P3 WebRTC: project video to second screen
P3 Gecko Webview
P3 API: Gamepad
P3 API: Alarm
P3 API: Bluetooth

Legend

Goals tags

  • GRO - Grow users & usage (includes perf)
  • REV - Increase revenue and establish new revenue sources
  • FXA - Drive Firefox Accounts adoption
  • ECO - Support Mozilla ecosystem
  • DAF - Drive developer adoption of Firefox
  • DAH - Drive developer adoption of HTML5 for games and apps
  • COM - Community engagement

Status tags

  • [ON TRACK] - {{mok}} - actively being worked on and those assigned feel comfortable and confident in achieving the target milestone.
  • [PLANNED] - {{mplan}} - feature has resources identified and assigned, work is adequately scoped out and engineering agrees that enough information is available to get the work started. Resources are identified and assigned, but work may not have commenced.
  • [PROPOSED] - {{mprop}} - feature is defined to an adequate degree for engineering to assess that they have the resources that can address the feature for the targeted release. Resources can be identified, but work has not commenced.
  • [AT RISK] - {{mrisk}} - blocking bug / high number of bugs / other confidence-shakers makes us feel that a feature may not achieve the targeted milestone.

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