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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Square Conference Room
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Upcoming Product Releases

Firefox 3.0.19 / Firefox 3.5.9 / Firefox 3.6.2

• schedule has been set, aiming for an end-of-March release
• all versions will be shipped simultaneously
• primary focus is security, stability, regression fixing

Gecko Developer Preview 1.9.3a2

• shipped today! see the full announcement for details
• out of process plugins on by default for Win32 and Linux
• performance improvements
• new web developer features
• new theme work on Win32

Mobile Firefox Maemo.Next

• looking at 1.1 beta after a month and a half
• 1.0.1 with some adu-related changes based-off of 1.9.2.2 being looked at

Labs

Weave

Support

• We're seeing more Firefox won't start -- sometimes no window opens, sometimes a "already running" message. Currently, we suspect bug 548945.
• Still lots of users "hiding" toolbars: bug 547891
• A few cases of users with bookmarks going to the wrong place. Ideas for what we should be asking users for?

Product Development

Firefox Project

• refactoring our project pages
• would love your input
• trying to make it easier to follow the flow of information
• big changes to the updater UI coming soon
  • fixed size across all locales and OSes
  • more flexibility on how browser will react after update (open URL, infobar, OS notification or nothing at all!)
  • will be backported to 3.5.x

Fennec Project

• dougt and stechz created (special thanks to joe and e10s team) a functional Fennec demo with e10s this past week
• Fennec is now working on android, albeit with some issues
• To find out what the mobile team is up to for 1.1, take a look at our project page!
  • If anyone has anyone has any questions, please feel free to post your thoughts to the mozilla.dev.platforms.mobile newsgroup

Gecko Platform

• direct2d landed on trunk (off by default) (see the demo page!)
• electrolysis progress is moving quickly
• working on fixing the privacy holes on css visited attribute
• see Platform meeting notes

Localization

• Radar: Lorentz, then Fennec 1.1. Anything missed?

QA

• WebQA: ongoing testing for opentochoice.org
• MozDevPrev 2 (3.7a2) shipped. Please give it a try and keep an eye out for OOPP functionality.
• QA Workweek Sessions
  • example: uTest - crowdsourced testing services - today 10:30-12pm (10 forward)
• Mobile QA status for the week
• Reporter for Fennec is on AMO

Release Engineering

Add-ons

Web Dev

Partners

Evangelism

• Working on CSS :visted stuff.
• Starting to ramp up mobile work with Paul to drive adoption and support
• 3.7 features are in process to get docs + promotion plan
• Helping Ehsan find people to fix HTML editing

Marketing/PR

• Major update billboard--need product team sign off. Bug 532540
• Working on "What's New" pages for 3.6.2/3.0.19
  • For 3.0.19, changing copy encouraging users to upgrade to 3.6 Bug 549510
  • For 3.6.2 changing wordmark and header copy Bug 549413
• New plan of attack for Rethinking the Mozilla Web Universe
• Mozilla.com Website Optimizations
  • Currently 3 First Run variations and 2 IE page variations in testing and hope to have download.html test implemented next week. Read more here

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