Firefox/Goals/2013Q3

Draft goal fodder:

• HiDPI theme for Windows (may be tricker than OSX due to multiple resolutions)
• Awesomebar refresh
• "Something about perf"

Firefox Desktop

Performance

(this is a draft, these need to be fleshed out)

• complete new Download Manager API
• Places APIs: fix annotations, history, bookmark backups
• SessionStore improvements: async data collection
• Fix "missing thumbnails"

Stability

• [DROPPED] Investigate and Fix the most prominent stackwalking issues in breakpad, especially on mac and android
• [DONE] Design a system to help users fix their crashes by both email and healthreport UI

Plugins

• [MISSED] Ship the plugin IPC profiling tool carryover
• [DROPPED] Make plugin process startup and plugin instance instantiation asynchronous (on -central, preffed) carryover

Firefox Developer Tools

Add-on SDK

• [ON TRACK] Debugger for add-on developers
• [ON TRACK] Easily ship add-ons as Firefox features
• [ON TRACK] Implementing add-on linker in JS
• [ON TRACK] Better tinderbox integration
• [ON TRACK] Fennec automated tests

App Development Tools

• [ON TRACK] ADB replacement
• [ON TRACK] App manager

Script and Performance Tools

• JS Deminification (nick)
• Profiler Augmentation, new UI, FPS, Frames (deferred from B2G work) (anton)
• Net Panel improvements (output improvements and saving data) (victor)
  • save as cURL
  • save HAR
  • better UI for multipart forms
  • replacing network panel in console (joint with mihai)
• Break on DOM, Break on XHR (past, victor)
• Remote Scratchpad and Debugger Scratchpad (push goals) (benvie)
• Blackbox (nick)
• Tag Stacks (push, past)
• Web Console Output Improvements (mihai)
  • selection fixes
  • better object display

Content Tools

• [ON TRACK] Improve Editing Experience with an SDK, improved "save" workflow and progress with HTML editing
• [ON TRACK] Update the Inspector with Highlighter / Style Editor integration, better diagnostics from platform
• [ON TRACK] Support B2G Simulator development
• [ON TRACK] Support updating the Web Console with a new "JSTerm" UI integrating the command line

Firefox for Android

Profile Related Work

Reader Enhancements

WebRT

Game/TV Form Factor

User Efficency/Cleanup

Firefox for Metro

Community Development

• [ON TRACK] Create a dashboard to measure contribution statistics, including ratio of MoCo/external by commit and by lines-of-code and other metrics https://etherpad.mozilla.org/5hLu2XiKzA
• [ON TRACK] Implement badges on Mozillians for early contributor achievements (carryover)

Build Config (shared across several teams)

• [ON TRACK] Remove export tier, make all file-install activities a nonrecursive step
  • [ON TRACK] non-recursive XPIDL
• [ON TRACK] Complete the moz.build conversion for everything in the export tier
• [ON TRACK] Add IPDL dependencies to avoid recompilation
• [ON TRACK] Finish resource-usage monitoring and use that data to make targeted improvements to maximize CPU usage while building

FHR

Desktop

• [MISSED] Improve the quality of the startup-time tip (unable to complete because of dependency on data team)
• [DROPPED] Implement a tip for the most important SUMO issue that can be solved using data (probably addon-related)
• Shared with above, expose crash-improvement tips

Android

• [ON TRACK] Ship to release
• [ON TRACK] Analyze incoming data and implement one new tip based on SUMO feedback and user data

Platform Integration

Firefox for Metro

Australis

Stub Installer

• [ON TRACK] ...

Application Update

• [ON TRACK] ...