Firefox/Goals/2013Q2
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Firefox Desktop
Search Hijacking
- [ON TRACK] remove use of keyword.URL
- [ON TRACK] put all search prefs under user control
- [MISSED] have a plan: prompt-on-engine-change dialog/notification
Performance
- Add-on manager startup (bug 729330)
- [ON TRACK] eliminate unnecessary main-thread I/O
- [ON TRACK] implement simplified storage back-end (SQLite->JSON)
- Thumbnail service
- [MISSED] no main thread impact from thumbnailing (bug 841495)
- New download back-end (bug 825588)
- [MISSED] landed and used by at least one consumer (no main thread I/O)
- New tab page
- [ON TRACK] reduce impact on tab animation (bug 843853)
- Password Manager
- [MISSED] eliminate main-thread I/O (bug 853549)
- localStorage
- [AT RISK] Eliminate all uses of localStorage in application code (bug 789348)
Australis
- [ON TRACK] Merged to mozilla-central for Firefox 24 (with intent to ride that train)
Profile Reset
- [ON TRACK] Improve experience and promote its usage. (tracking: bug 851364)
- [DONE] Migrate tabs from previous session
- Promote/enable reset in more places
- Upon reinstall of Firefox
- [DONE] Upon using a profile that hasn't been used for a long time
- [DONE] Post-reset "first run" page
- General re-welcome/info, tab selection, continuation of reset experience
- Guide them to next steps if reset was successful (yay!) or failed (boo, more SUMO links)
Permissions UI
- [ON TRACK] Expose a lightweight UI (not about:permissions) for managing permissions you have granted to a site. (old mockup: http://cl.ly/image/3u3M2w3O3w1X)
Papercuts
- [ON TRACK] This is a stretch goal, and largely depends how much Australis post-landing fallout there may be.
- "Show my windows and tabs from last time" should be the default.
- Ensure commands which open the Places organizer open it in the correct section/view
- Clean up Help menu
Stability
- [AT RISK] Develop and deploy a system to allow 3rd parties to submit encrypted/obfuscated symbols to Mozilla, and get popular addons and driver vendors to send us symbols.
- [DONE] Develop reports to allow prioritization of potentially exploitable crashes.
Plugins
- [MISSED] Make plugin and plugin instance instantiation asynchronous: implemented behind a pref, this will land on -central but may need to be preffed off because of web content breakage
- [MISSED] Profile Flash IPC messages and rearrange event delivery to delay painting and networking events when synchronous events are pending. - Code is written, but not reviewed and landed.
Firefox Developer Tools
- Mobile Everywhere
Add-on SDK
- [AT RISK] UX work
- [ON TRACK] Places API
- [ON TRACK] Add-ons run with access to a DOM window
Script and Performance Tools
- [MISSED] Scratchpad remoted and integrated with the debugger.
- so close...
- [MISSED] FPS monitor, frame boundaries in the profiler.
- diverted due to b2g
- [ON TRACK] tagStack, XHR breakpoints.
- XHR breakpoints are close, tagStack will follow
Content Tools
- [ON TRACK] Finish remoting the Inspector.
- Plan and begin executing authoring strategy. Which means:
- [ON TRACK] create firm UX proposal for in-browser authoring,
- [ON TRACK] integrate Style Editor and Highlighter,
- [ON TRACK] prototype external editor integration.
- [ON TRACK] Provide metrics on Developer Tool usage through FHR probes.
Firefox for Android
Profile Related Work
Various things that are based on profiles, while trying to avoid Sync/PiCL dependencies:
- [ON TRACK] Profile Reset
- [ON TRACK] Guest Mode (Switching to a temporary profile)
- [ON TRACK] Investigate viability of Kid Mode with UX (A profile with strong parental controls)
- [ON TRACK] Investigate viability of Senior Mode with UX (A profile with less options and designed pure ease-of-use)
Reader Enhancements
Reader is one of Firefox Android's most differentiating features. We have plans to add more to the core in Q2:
- [ON TRACK] Night Mode (ambient light based background toggle)
- [ON TRACK] Sans Serif/Serif font toggle
- [ON TRACK] Open into Reading List from home screen
- [ON TRACK] Add to Reading List from external apps (for example: twitter)
- [ON TRACK] Text-to-Voice investigations (investigate the technology)
- [ON TRACK] Twitter card support for richer Reading List (investigate the design with UX)
WebRT
- [ON TRACK] Packaged app support
- [ON TRACK] Investigate APK wrapper viability (long term goal is to uplift to Marketplace)
- [ON TRACK] Turn off some browser-centric features while in App mode
Game/TV Form Factor
- [ON TRACK] Gamepad controller support
- [ON TRACK] TV layout support
User Efficency/Cleanup
- [ON TRACK] Hostname completion
- [ON TRACK] Keyboard shortcuts
- [ON TRACK] Quickly share using last "Share App" from menu
- [ON TRACK] Improve Settings UI
- [ON TRACK] Improve Session Restore
Firefox for Metro
- [ON TRACK] Feature-complete awesome/start screen
- [ON TRACK] Uplift from mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora
Community Development
- [MISSED] Establish a roadmap for contributors so that they can view their progress on Mozillians and can see what the next "level up" is.
- [DONE] Implement engineering contributor rewards program, including both recognition/badges and "stuff".
- [MISSED] Automate, either through bugzilla-anthropology or Bugzilla proper, the awarding of many of the badges in the Engineering badging effort.
- [MISSED] Design and implement a set of metrics to measure Mozilla's support for volunteer engineering, and volunteer participation/effectiveness for deployment in Q3.
- [DONE] Request for every team in engineering: describe what a "minimum viable contributor" is for participating on that team, including time commitments and resources required.
FHR
Desktop
- [ON TRACK] reduce fsyncs to one per day
- [ON TRACK] move session/activity tracking into Gecko/C++
- [ON TRACK] ensure measurements outside of collection time do not incur fsyncs
Android
- [ON TRACK] fully-featured native Android FHR client landed.
Platform Integration
Firefox for Metro
- [ON TRACK] Continued support of Firefox for Metro goals (3 from the Platform Integration team
Australis
- [ON TRACK] Continued Mac OS X integration work with a focus on Australis
Stub Installer
- [ON TRACK] Implement a minimum of two recommendations to improve user install success rate based on stub installer ping data analysis
Application Update
- [ON TRACK] Installations on previous version analysis