Firefox/Planning/2014-05-14

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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

These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Mobile

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Work In Progress

• Firefox Hub (817716,1004153,1005107,1007408,965452,999756,701725)
• Sync (1003877,1005072,891600,965924)
• Translation close to complete for all 31 planned languages except mai (Maithili)

You can find more on upcoming feature plans in the[roadmap]

Uplifts

Beta (133)

• Regression: After MP4 video playback, video can not be played again (Bug 1005622)
• Panel view sometimes does replace empty view after dataset updates (Bug 1000849)
• position: fixed elements are misplaced (Bug 1000423)
• Regression: Content glitches/flashes during periods of heavy repainting (Bug 992218)
• Regression: position: fixed element corruption when panning (Bug 988370)
• Regression: Panning and zooming yields flickering and or vanishing content (Bug 983208)
• Extra padding on some list item titles (Bug 975091)
• crash in gfxContext::gfxContext(mozilla::gfx::DrawTarget*) (Bug 952721)
• Can not scroll on Yahoo Fantasy Sports Football (Bug 911574)

Aurora (54)

• URL outline is not resized correctly after changing device orientation (Bug 1005924)
• Improper rendering of Indic scripts on some Samsung devices, due to bad DroidSansFallback font (Bug 992100)
• Scrolled page in Readermode produces banner strip artifact (Bug 989278)
• On access to Sync through settings after setup, user should be sent to config screen not 'back to browsing' (Bug 986096)

Landings

Nightly (134)

• crash in gfxContext::gfxContext(mozilla::gfx::DrawTarget*) (Bug 952721)
• [id] Firefox Mobile release tracker Indonesian (Bug 960060)
• Report device type and attributes (tablet, phone, etc.) (Bug 965371)
• (HTC One 4.4, CodefireX) - java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: dlopen failed: cannot locate symbol "__fork" referenced by "libmozglue.so" (Bug 966154)
• Regression: 'Share Image' shares link and not actual image (Bug 990642)
• Improper rendering of Indic scripts on some Samsung devices, due to bad DroidSansFallback font (Bug 992100)
• Personal data exposed in Top Sites thumbnails (Bug 996129)
• SharedPreferences.jsm and SharedPreferencesHelper are not using same prefs (Bug 997328)
• Swiftkey/Kii/Swype input interaction issues in the URL bar (Bug 998398)
• Firefox on Asus Memopad HD7 with Android 4.2.2 plays video frames out of order (Bug 998603)
• position: fixed elements are misplaced (Bug 1000423)
• Don't reverse the R and B components in the GL CopyDataSourceSurface code for SurfaceFormat::R5G6B5 (Bug 1001682)
• Support weighted snippets (Bug 1002567)
• Character Encoding selection broken in Fennec 29 (Bug 1003897)
• crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException: Couldnt read row 0, col 0 from CursorWindow. Make sure the Cursor is initialized correctly before accessing data from it. at android.database.CursorWindow.nativeGetBlob(Native Method) (Bug 1003911)
• After banner message with no icon is shown, banner icon is always hidden (Bug 1004160)
• Regression: After MP4 video playback, video can not be played again (Bug 1005622)
• URL outline is not resized correctly after changing device orientation (Bug 1005924)

Developer Tools

• Outbound
  • EPIC posts from last week got us lots of nice comments on hacker news
    • For the tools Aurora post: 28,991 unique visitors, 501 tweets, 178 Facebook Likes
    • the chrome devrel team said some very nice things about us just this morning :).
  • Devtooler James Long hit the front page of hacker news with an blog post on React.js HN Comments
  • Angelina is big in Scotland, delivering the keynote for last weeks's ScotlandJS. Next stop, JSConf!

• Feedback
  • uservoice submission have died down: 132 total, 30 closed, 5 started, 32 planned, 64 under review

• the 'Australis Bump'

• Landings
  • Landed the App Manager V2 UI but it's not included in builds by default yet.
  • lots of bug fixes

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Read the Feedback update on rel-drivers.

Looking into the Ask Toolbar breaking the new tab page, may pursue blocking.

Add-ons marked Absolute Load Control 0.25 as incompatible, it basically broke every major Australis feature for the few usres that had the add-on

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team

Desktop

Notes

• Yahoo! Mail will be forcing users of older browsers to a "basic" version of Y!Mail starting June 5th. This will include Firefox users running v27 or lower.
• Opera adds its Aura GFx hardware acceleration for browsing (not just GFx operations) to v21, continuing a trend where they launch chromium features before Google.
• MS and Asus have launched a low-cost Windows 8.1 notebook to compete (or to see if it can compete) with Chromebooks.

Mobile

News

• US Federal Court overturns lower court ruling on whether APIs can be subject to copyright in long-running Oracle vs. Google suit. Short and the sweet, the US courts have said Oracle can copyright APIs, and not just the code underneath them. It's a significant, but not final, setback for Google and Android (note that Google has a replacement for Dalvik, but it's really not the point), as well as software that emulates APIs for x-platform compatibility or other reasons.
  Why we should care: potentially huge implications in creating products that interact with another organization's API where that org asserts copyright. It's by no means over, and a separate ruling on whether Google's use falls under Fair Use doctrine (and whether Google will appeal) is still to come, but it's an ugly precedent that surprised pretty much everyone.

• Ben Evan's "Unfair but Relevant" chart shows a lot about market opportunities. It's a comparison of Facebook logins in different countries, and what platform is used, and gives insight into iOS and Android target markets. Apple targets mature markets with disposable income to generate cash. Android OEMs target all markets, and sees huge market share in markets where people don't have $600-800 to drop on an iPhone (or its subsidized contract).
  Why we should care: Market focus and opportunity.

Notes

• As Google I/O approaches, expect to see more rumors on the 4.5 update. This week's rumor is around the overhaul of the Android launcher, and its deeper integration of Google services. Worth a read/look, particularly on the fate of widgets IF Android adopts an iOS-like app grid, but it IS a rumor.
• Microsoft releases its Lync messaging/conferencing app for Android, indicating Android is gaining traction in corporate environments.
• Tablets are not quite netbooks, but the market may be saturated/maturing faster than OEMs would like.
• Motorola releases a low-cost, decent feature Smartphone to compete with feature phones. This extends Motorola's push into lower-cost, contract-free phones and , interestingly, they're Google-branded.
• Canalys reports that over a quarter billion Android devices shipped in Q1, and 1/3 of them had a 5" screen or bigger. This reinforces IDC and Gartner forecast numbers, which project 1-1.1B Android device shipments in 2014.

Questions, Comments, FYI

• Tree closure this Saturday, May 17th. 4-5 hours required for some network work. Please to be not chemspilling kthx. bug 1004764
• Data centre consolidation beginning next Monday, continuing for 6-8 weeks. Release work Mondays/Tuesdays may be slightly delayed.
  • http://www.laurathomson.com/2014/05/data-center-consolidation-or-how-to-save-900k-a-year/