Firefox/Planning/2011-05-18

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde Conference Room
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

REMEMBER

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Actions from Last Week

• Cheng to coordinate with product marketing and UX to determine what, if any, response we should have to the problems of 4.0 users being confused about session restore changes.
  • Short term: Add a box/text to the firstrun/post-startup page telling users about the new session restore behavior.
  • Longer term: Make Firefox smarter and automatically turn on session restore in situations when you're likely to need it.

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox 3.6.x/3.5.x/4.0.x

• Published the Firefox 3.5 EOL plan
  • We are in the process of implementing the plan
• Next 3.6 update is scheduled to ship with Firefox 5

Firefox 5 (Desktop)

• Firefox 5 going to beta this week
  • First time to use same changeset for both desktop and mobile releases!

Firefox 6 (Desktop)

• Going from nightly to aurora next week

Firefox 5 (Mobile)

• Fennec 5 going to beta this week
  • First time to use same changeset for both desktop and mobile releases!
• Beta builds are wrapping up
• QA to start soon
• Missed the version bump, so we'll need to land it later

Firefox 6 (Mobile)

• Many tasks are in progress, but won't make Fx6 aurora merge
• We are working on how we can balance the work better

Add-on SDK 1.0RC1

• On track to release first 1.0RC Next Wednesday
• On track to complete work for 1.0 by early June
• Will hold in RC and release in conjunction with Firefox 5

Input 3.5

• ETA: Today
  • Fancier submission methods on desktop.
  • Full list of bugs fixed

Note: We're about to start rocking it over the next couple of months (i.e. Input 4.x). The stage is being set up.

Feedback Summary

Firefox 4.0.1 Feedback

• Sync not working [1] [2]
• Printing [3]
• Can't open PDFs [4]
  • might be: bug 613756 or bug 642454 or bug 648511
• Yahoo (can't attach files to mail) [5] -- can we do outreach?
• Mouse scrolling issues (may be related to having a PDF open/open in background) [6]
  • might be: bug 613756 or bug 642454

Aurora Feedback

• Windows Media Player not compatible

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search?product=firefox&version=5.0a2&date_start=2011-05-03&date_end=&q=media

• Extension compatibility (on the plus side, people say it's more responsive/faster startup)
• Channel Switcher

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search?product=firefox&version=5.0a2&date_start=2011-05-09&sentiment=sad&q=channel http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search?product=firefox&version=5.0a2&date_start=2011-05-09&sentiment=sad&q=update

• • Looks like a number of people are experiencing: [7]
• Youtube buffering issues.

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search?q=youtube&product=firefox&version=5.0a2&sentiment=sad&date_start=2011-05-03 or maybe laggy/slow http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search?locale=en-US&product=firefox&version=5.0a2&sentiment=sad&q=youtube

• Netflix streaming doesn't work

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search?q=netflix&product=firefox&version=5.0a2&date_start=2011-05-03

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650141
• Flash game loading issues/slow.

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search?locale=en-US&product=firefox&version=5.0a2&sentiment=sad&q=flash

• Yahoo Toolbar doesn't work with Firefox 6.
• apple.com site slider/carosel is broken (regression) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657469

Press & Public Reactions

• Mozilla Plans End to Firefox 3.5 With Firefox 5 Beta on Horizon
• Mozilla details plans to kill Firefox 3.5

• 12 million still using Firefox 3.5 - Mozilla wants them to upgrade!