Feature Improvements Tracking Page

We will track feature improvements that will go in Firefox 3.6 (1.9.2) in this page. These will be categorized by component, for example: Tabbed Browsing, Private Browsing, etc.

Please include a brief description of the feature improvements, a link to the sprint documentation if any, tracking bug(s), and links to existing automated test cases, and proposed litmus test cases if necessary, as well as completion percentage estimate to keep track of our progress.

Clear Recent History

• Dev: ehsan
• QA: marcia
• Sprint Doc: link me
• Bug: bug 488691
• Description: Clear up confusing warning when clearing all history
• Status: completion % estimate

Menus

[Windows] Auto-hide menu bars

• Dev: Dao
• QA: Henrik / volunteer
• Tracking Bug: bug 477256
• Description: Add option to auto-hide the menu bar on Windows
• Status: DEV: complete - QA: 0%

Tabbed Browsing

New Tab to the Right

• Dev: John Morkel
• QA: Henrik, Gabriela, juanb
• Tracking Bug: bug 465673
• Description: Open newly created tabs from links right next to the current one
• Status: DEV: complete - QA: 100%
  • Bug's been verified, a test case was checked in with it, and current Litmus test cases were modified to accommodate this change. See tests 8087 and 8088 in Litmus, which are part of Tabbed Browsing.
• Information
  • Requirements from Mike Beltzner
  • Better heuristic discussion

UI

[Mac] Full screen mode

• Dev: mstange
• QA: Henrik / volunteer
• Tracking Bugs: bug 370857, bug 505699
• Description: Re-Implementation of full screen mode on OS X
• Status:
  • Dev: complete
    • Automated tests have to be written
    • Remaining bugs: bug 522140, bug 522217, bug 452843, bug 521744
  • QA: 90% - waiting for remaining fixes
    • Existing Litmus tests (5) have been updated to match the full screen feature on all platforms
    • New created tests: [9534]

Multi File Picker

• Dev: jonas, jst
• QA: tchung / volunteer
• Tracking Bugs: bug 523771, bug 63687
• Description: Supporting <input type=file multiple>
• Status:
  • Dev: complete
    • Mochitests: 1
  • QA: 90%
    • Added Litmus test to Content Handling suite. 1
    • Testcase uploaded. 1

Places

Places Vacuum / Performance

• Dev: sdwilsh
• QA: ?
• Description: Periodically vacuum places.sqlite database
• Sprint Doc: Places Vacuum Spec
• Tracking Bugs:
• Status: completion % estimate

Places Views / Performance

• Dev: mano
• QA: ?
• Description: See spec
• Sprint Doc: Sprint Project Page
• Tracking Bugs:
• Status: completion % estimate

Plugins

[Mac] Restore OJI, Liveconnect and the JEP on the 1.9.2 branch

• Dev: smichaud
• QA: Henrik / Marcia
• Tracking Bugs: bug 517355
• Description: Re-Implementation of the JEP to make Java work for Firefox 3.6
• Status:
  • Dev: complete
  • QA: complete
    • Existing Litmus tests (9) have been updated to match the UI changes
    • Clean-up of remaining bug reports