Firefox/Planning/2014-01-29

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop & Platform

Beta (133)

• Firefox Desktop 27.0 release candidate has gone to build
  • Executed, "repack final release candidate and offer it to beta users" this cycle. Details here and email on release-drivers

Aurora (54)

• Merge day next Monday, Feb 3
• Aurora will be throttled for the week, as usual

Nightly (134)

• New Release Manager, Sylvestre Ledru will be cutting his teeth on this release, NBD
• Australis onboarding tour is not ready for Aurora on Monday, does this affect shipping?

Firefox Mobile

Beta (133)

\o/going GA next week!

• We're all systems go for bug 935676 - Flash doesn't work on 4.4 KitKat
• We're down to less than 2.5 crashes per 100 ADU
• We need to figure out slowness caused by Add Block Plus
• [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

Aurora (54)

Confirmed features

• [ON TRACK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [ON TRACK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
• [ON TRACK] Background Thread Hang Reporting bug 932865
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et), bug 946204

Nightly (134)

• [ON TRACK] Toolbar Refactor
• [ON TRACK] Ongoing: Startup wins, including removing throbber replacing with progress bar bug 917896, bug 959776
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on
• [ON TRACK] Telemetry probes for Fennec UI elements
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Hindi(hi), bug 960059
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 521995
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv) , bug 958021
• [ON TRACK] Shumway Bundled in Browser but disabled, bug 905668
• [ON TRACK] APK Synthesis on by default
• [AT RISK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts <== need to defer
• [AT RISK] Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.1 integration
• [AT RISK] Promo snippet for Sync
• [AT RISK] My List: Manage current lists in settings the ability to "hide"only, no re-order is ok? Can we ship without drag and drop?
• [AT RISK] Promo snippet for Marketplace
• [AT RISK] Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync bug 958889 (nice to have, shift to 30 if needed)
• [PROPOSED] WebRTC tab streaming

Developer Tools

<Read Only> - travelling

• Landings
  • working to get the new box highlighter landed before merge
  • robcee's bugzilla search for the current cycle: [1] - 191 bugs resolved so far.
• Outbound
  • "Upcoming changes to the Firefox Developer tools node picker" - published last week.
  • The usual Aurora uplift post coming Feb 11th.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Sentiment Report 26 next week
Preparing for Aurora surveys

Mobile

Sentiment Report 26 next week

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

• Internet Explorer 11 delivered the most battery life and Chrome delivered the least on Windows 8.1 laptops and tablets used for testing at 7 Tutorials [2], similar to previous results on IE10 [3] and IE9. [4]

• Web developers can exploit bugs in Google’s Chrome browser to listen through a computer’s microphone — even if the browser window is not open. [5] The source code for this exploit is available at GitHub [6]

• As the number of users on the Internet expands across the world, for example in India at 243 million users, [7] and the connectivity expands [8], ICANN will expand the number of generic top-level domains from 22 to a few hundreds, starting February.

Questions, Comments, FYI

• Telemetry Experiments as a step towards better experimental and A/B data collection. Questions, concerns, potential desires for the system? contact bsmedberg