Fx19: Making New Friends

• Firefox for Mobile Roadmap 2012-2013
• Firefox 19 Feature Tracking

Key Selling Points

1. Personalise your browser with a light-weight theme
2. Opening up to China
3. Supporting more ARMv6 devices

Value Proposition

Main driver: expanding TAM through device breath and new locale reach

Product & Feature Requirements

Light-weight themes

• It's fun to personalize
• Themes were quite popular on desktop
• Themes drives traffic to AMO

Specifications

• Change the chrome to a user-picked design
• Light-weight themes hosted in AMO
• Must be maintained from one upgrade to the next

UX Design

• Light-Weight theme mock-up
• Light-Weight theme guidelines

User Stories

• As a user, I want to personalize my browser skin to make it fun, quirky and "me".

Quality Criteria

1. User stories are met
2. Specifications are satisfied

ARMv6 expanded support: 600MHz, 512MB, HVGA

• Expands our TAM
• Supports our mission for extending the web for everyone

Specifications

• Fennec to install, run and support all Fennec features on an expanded set of devices supporting at a minimum ARMv6, 600 MHz, 512 MB RAM, HVGA, OpenGL

User Stories

• As a user, I want to download Firefox for Android to my LG Optimus One, T-Mobile myTouch 3G slide, HTC Wildfire S or ZTE R750 – just to name a few – so I can reap the benefits of using Firefox for Android!
• As a user, I want a browser alternative that performs at least as well as the stock browser pre-installed on my handset, so that I have a choice as to which browser I can use.
• As a developer, I want to target even more phones with one application to reduce development overheads.

Device List

• HTC Wildfire S (A5101)
• LG Optimus One (LG-P500)
• ZTE R750
• LG L-04C
• HTC myTouch 3G Slide
• ZTE Blade
• Acer beTouch/Liquid Mini (E310)
• ZTE Blade (003Z)

Quality Criteria Passes 90% of the following MozTrap testcases:

• MUST PASS: Firefox installs and starts up
• MUST PASS: Double Tap Function (Double-tap to zoom)
• MUST PASS: Panning/Zooming
• MUST PASS: Bookmark a site from the context menu
• Firefox uninstalls properly
• Google search
• Search suggest opt-in (yes)
• Search suggest opt-in (no)
• Search or Go icon in URL bar
• Find In Page
• Refresh button
• Back and forward buttons
• Share a Link
• Open/Close Tab menu
• New tab button
• The items in the Awesomescreen tabs are displayed shortly after accessing the tab
• Close Tab
• Ensure context menu is not cut off in any way
• Ensure custom menu is not cut off in any way
• Settings menu items
• Access the product's about page from Settings
• Verify not saving passwords
• Verify "Never" saving passwords
• Forget password by clearing the private data
• Verify saving of a password
• Forget Password
• Clear private data dialog
• Reader Mode toolbar (add/remove items from reading list)
• Opening a reading list item opens the item in Reader Mode UI
• Invoke about:feedback
• Firefox Feedback: I have an idea
• Firefox Feedback: I ran into some problems
• Firefox Feedback: I love it

Support for zh-TW and zh-CN

• Developers in the Asia-Pacific area are interested in zh-TW and zh-CN support to better customise applications for the Chinese market
• The significant market share of ARMv6 users are in Asia-Pacific, so ensuring the zh-TW and zh-CN locales are included ensures we are better catering to this audience as we continue to expand our ARMv6 device support

Specifications

• zh-TW is added to the multi-locale APK
• zh-CN is added to the multi-locale APK

User Stories

• As a user in China or Taiwan, I want to use Firefox for with the China or Taiwan locale so I can use it in my own language.
• As a developer, I can create applications more specific to the Chinese market by leveraging the integrated locate into the multi-pack build.

Quality Criteria

1. zh-TW locale is added to the standard multi-locale APK
2. zh-CN locale is added to the standard multi-locale APK
3. The addition of zh-CN and zh-TW locales do not significantly increase start-up times or APK size as compared to the current multi-locale APK

Fx integration into Google search widget

• Allows a user to add the Firefox database to Google's on-device search engine

Specifications

• Provide a mechanism for users to allow their Firefox data to be used by the Google on-device search engine (for when a user uses the Google search widget)
• When a user taps on the Google search widget, users can click on menu -> settings -> phone search and check / uncheck the 'Firefox' box to allow Google to search Firefox's bookmarks and history for relevant search results
• No other visual change to the Google search widget

User Stories

• As a user, I can use Google search to look through my Firefox bookmarks and history so I can find relevant results (when I was browsing with Firefox) when I'm searching using the Google search widget.

Quality Criteria

1. User stories are satisfied
2. Specifications are met

Supported Locales

Number of supported locales: 18 [en-US, cs, da, de, es-ES, fi, fr, ja, ko, it, nb-NO, nl, pl, pt-BR, pt-PT, ru, zh-CN, zh-TW]

System Requirements

Phones & Tablets

• OS: Android 2.2+
• Chipset/MHz: ARMv6 and ARMv7 / 600 MHz
• RAM: 512 MB
• Display: HVGA
• Other: OpenGL

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