FF2 planning Meeting - 2/7/06

Feature Review

[See Feature list]

== Ben Goodger - New bookmark and history system

• Alpha timing with bugs/feature fixes
• He'd like to dog food his own work
• editing bookmarks almost there
• Could use QA; on bookmarks and history
  • Need plan/action on this!
• being checked into both trunk and 1.8.1 branch

Tab browsing - Mike Conner

Extension Manager - Robert Strong

• Extension Blacklisting [See Bug 318338, Bug 290759, and Bug 271166]
• Extension Locales [See Bug 285848 and Bug 324189]
• Extension Dependencies [See Bug 298497]
• Extension Update Notification [See Bug 307358]

Windows Installer - Robert Strong

• Firefox 2.0 Windows Installer [See Bug 326580]
• Branding and Locale installer customization

Search - Ben Goodger

• Not using OpenSearch standard
  • controled by A9 and Microsoft
  • Not an open standard
  • Want to stay independent until other truely open standards are in place.

Visual refresh - Mike Beltzner (?)

• cbeard will lead discussion about this

Platform patches from trunk

• Brendan not at meeting to provider info.
• Memory leak, compatibility enhancements, etc., would be part of this

Inline spellcheck - Brett

• How to dist dictionary? Size issue! - 260KB
• Installer issue to install dictionary
• Licensiing issue with locale specific dictionaries
• Talk about "extention locale". Need to find out more about this.