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| <section begin="summary" />{{RoadmapSummary
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| |pagetitle=Firefox Platform 2015 Roadmap
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| |owner=Martin Best
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| |updated=December 2014
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| |status=Draft
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| |description=This roadmap outlines the current direction for Firefox Platform development through 2015. The following document is subject to change at anytime. It is also not a commitment to ship a features but rather an intent to implement and land them on by default in the nightly version of Firefox unless otherwise stated.}}
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| Related Links:
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| * [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/mHqE7QmHeqQ Firefox Desktop Q1 2015 Areas of Focus Post]
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| * [https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar Firefox Release Calendar]
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| * [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Roadmap2012 2012 Platform Roadmap]
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| =Teams=
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| ==Accessibility==
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| [everything below not finalized]
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| * Screen Reader v1.0 for FxOS.
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| * Integrate and expand FxOS accessibility test coverage.
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| * Webspeech TTS hookup on Windows
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| * Instantiate "BarrierSmash" program
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * Accessibility support for E10s. (stretch targeting Gecko 40)
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| * Accessibility Metrics
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * Accessibility Dev Tool.
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| * Accessibility Training Materials
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| * Web Facing Accessibility API
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| * Nothing here for now.
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| ==DOM==
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| * Service Workers
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| * IndexedDB in Workers
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| * Picture Tag
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| * requestSync (FxOS-only precursor to BackgroundSync)
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| * TCP Socket in Workers
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| * e10s (drag-and-drop, clipboard, leak detection and reporting)
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * BackgroundSync
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| * Pre-rendering API
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| * Shadow DOM
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| * Custom Elements
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| * Web Manifest
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * Web Push
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| * Media Controls API
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| * localStorage + Quota Manager
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| * Image Resizing API
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| * FileSystem API
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| * Web Share primitive (towards Web Activities standardization)
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| * finish remaining WebIDL conversions
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| * JS-implemented plugins
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| * IndexedDB data change observer events
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| * Device Orientation Locking (any spec work; others doing implementation)
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| * Broadcast channel
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| * Message Port
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| * Remove appcache
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| * Directory upload
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| * DOM bits of Object.observe
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| * Get rid of child array
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| * WebGL in Workers
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| * Web Audio in Workers
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| ==e10s==
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| * e10s Milestone 4 completed in Gecko 38 ([http://is.gd/XKZkQ5 buglist])
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| * e10s Milestone 5 completed in Gecko 38 ([http://is.gd/7MuzQK buglist])
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| * e10s Milestone 6 completed in Gecko ~39 ([http://is.gd/yOVr9r buglist])
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| * Addon migration / CPOW mitigation tools
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * e10s rollout to Aurora ~39
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| * e10s Milestone 7 completed in Nightly ~39 ([http://is.gd/BNgUVN buglist])
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| * e10s Milestone 8 completed in Nightly ~39 ([http://is.gd/jUNCg5 buglist])
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| * e10s rollout to Beta ~39
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * e10s rollout to Release
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| * milestone completion placeholder - additional milestones will be defined later in the year for winding the e10s project down.
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| ==Graphics==
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| * FirefoxOS GFX Device Support
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| * OMTC - Off Main Thread Compositing Windows
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| * e10s - Ship Electrolysis
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| * Project Silk
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| * Graphics - FirefoxOS Critical Memory Usage Reduction
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| * WebGL 2 Demo
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| * WebGL Desktop Performance
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| * Desktop OOM driver related issues
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * APZ on Desktop
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| * Tiling on Desktop
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| * Desktop Scrolling Performance
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * APZ - "fake overscroll"
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| * APZ - OOP iframe support
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| * Zooming-in Improvements
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| * Overscroll Improvements
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| * Expose the graphics card details
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| * WebGL Mobile Performance
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| * WebGL Performance Parity on Desktop
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| * Nothing here for now.
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| ==JavaScript==
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| * Parsing and Caching Optimization Shumway
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| * ARM Mobile Opts - Support demo
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| * Detailed GC jank Telemetry
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| * ES6 Classes
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| * SAB demo
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| * SIMD.js demos
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| * ARM 64 baseline on Intel
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| * CGC Target release
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| * JIT Frame for Profiler JIT Coach plumbing
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| * Experimental SIMD.js for ASM.js on x86 only (Intel demo)
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| * ES6 Generators JITted
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| * ES6 Symbols
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * SIMD.js on ION Intel
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| * GC/CC scheduling improvements
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| * Shared Array Buffer v1
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| * Research PGO
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| * Enable the backtracking allocator for all Ion code
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| * Improve web framework (Shumway/Ember/Angular) performance
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| * ES6 let and const
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * JS team reduce jank (GC tuning)
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| * SIMD.js on ION ARM
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| * Nothing here for now.
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| ==Layout==
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| * Enable OMT Animations on all OMTC platforms
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| * -webkit CSS compatibility for fix-list sites
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| * Images downscale during decode
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| * Vertical Text (basic text, form controls)
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| * CSS Font Loading
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| * e10s Layout Support
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| * CSS Object fit and position
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| * CSS display:contents
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| * CSS scroll snapping
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * Web Animation API
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| * HTML5 <canvas> improvements
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| * Vertical Text (tables)
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| * CSS 3D Transforms ( plane splitting & other interop improvements )
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| * CSS Ruby
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * CSS Images (media-fragments)
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| * CSS Shapes (shape-outside for floats)
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| * CSS Box Alignment (for block layout)
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| * CSS Grid
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| * CSS Masking
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before end 2015 but may get reprioritized ------
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| * Nothing here for now.
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| ==Media==
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| * MSE - Media Source Extensions (nightly)
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| * EME - Encrypted Media Extensions (nightly)
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * MSE (release)
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| * EME (release)
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| * Daala
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * MSE improvements
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| * EME continued development
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| * Video quality, performance and memory consumption
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| * MP4 demuxer written in Rust
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| * This space intentionally left blank
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| ==Mobile Platform==
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| * Enhance Page Load Performance
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| * Platform-independent MP3 parser, platform-dependent decoders
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| * Ensure all crash reports are going to Socorro
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| * OpenH264 on Android
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * Standalone WebRTC library usable by third parties Loop client prototype for major platforms (iOS, Android, Windows)
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| * Pre-Rendering Web Pages
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| * Background Hang Reporting (BHR) working with E10S
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| * Enhance screen mirroring performance
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * Allow multiple Gecko windows via multiple GeckoView instances
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| * Download locales on-demand in split APK (snorp, esawin)
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| * Download fonts on-demand in split APK
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| * Improve Power Effeciency
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| * Nothing here for now.
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| ==Networking==
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| * HTTP/2 ships preffed on (currently scheduled for Gecko 35)
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| * Network Predictor landed & enabled on m-c ({{bug|1009122}})
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| * Idle mode for networking (optimize radio power use): ({{bug|1085760}})
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * Necko bits needed for Smart Data Management (split "System" data into browser, apps, etc): ({{bug|1070944}})
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * Network predictor: prefetch resources into HTTP cache if they are very likely to be used.
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| * Nothing here for now.
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| ==PKI==
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| * OneCRL
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| * Phase 1 of CA program migration to SalesForce
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| * SHA-1 warnings
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * Name constraints on root CAs
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| * OneCRL based on (subject, public key)
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| * Certificate observatory
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| * Finish removal of 1024-bit roots
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * WebCrypto hardware-backed keys
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| * Certificate transparency (behind a pref)
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| * Mozilla::pkix integration with NSS
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| * Intermediate certs in SalesForce
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| * TLS 1.3
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| * Certificate chain collection from browsers
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| * WebCrypto
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| ==Sandboxing==
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| * EME/CDM sandboxing for Windows 7+
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| * e10s sandboxing for Windows
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| * e10s sandboxing for OS X
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| * e10s sandboxing for Linux
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * EME/CDM sandboxing for Windows XP and Vista
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * EME/CDM sandboxing for OS X
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| * EME/CDM sandboxing for Linux
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| ==Security==
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| * SRI (Sub-resource integrity) for 3rd party scripts and styles.
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| * CSP (content-security policy) suggestions in Dev Edition/Dev Tools.
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| * Insecure passwords warning in Dev Edition/Dev Tools.
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| * Tracking Protection Experiments - {{bug|1119891}}.
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| * Security hooks revamp completed for Gecko internals.
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| * Add on signing support available.
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * Encryption for password manager database.
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| * Prototype for isolated Private Browsing sessions.
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * Containers for isolated non-private browsing sessions.
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| * Lightbeam-lite/Tracking Detection
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| * Security hooks revamp complete for addons/extensions.
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| * Referer policy experiments.
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| * Nothing here for now.
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| ==WebRTC / WebAudio==
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| <b> (All these features/fixes below are landing in Nightly during these quarters) </b>
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| * Rewrite SDP/JSEP and add BUNDLE support
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| * Multistream, renegotiation support
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| * VP9 codec support in WebRTC (we may ship VP9 pref'd off by default)
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| * Web Audio and WebRTC working well together
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * OpenH264 for Android working well
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| * Audio workers
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| * Web Audio performance improvements
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| * Simulcast
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| * e10s problems fixed
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| * All echo and audio problems in WebRTC 1:1 calls resolved
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * getUserMedia and audio output sandboxing working
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| * Considerably better NAT traversal (including ICE proxy and UPnP support)
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| * Audio output selection
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| * Data channels in workers
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| * Compliant with "v1.0" (or equivalent) of the WebRTC spec
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| ==Web Compatibility==
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| * Hold [[WebCompat Summit (2015)|WebCompat Summit]]
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| * [[Compatibility/Telemetry|Compatibility Telemetry]]
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| * Reusable Workshop + conference materials developed
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------
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| * Compatibility dashboard for Telemetry, Bugzilla
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| * Develop automated mobile compatibility infrastructure (to be tracked on dashboard)
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| * Redundant GitHub webcompat/web-bugs issues data storage.
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------
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| * Ship [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1c5w87-KDZCP9eltjfk98GL_i-hyqQ193J86_e1L4wnQ/edit#heading=h.mje3211pzj4p MDN Web Compat Service], in conjunction with MDN + Cloud Services teams
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| * Get 1 other major browser vendor involved in webcompat.com
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| * [https://github.com/webcompat/webcompat.com/milestones/Better%20mobile%20bug%20reporting Better mobile reporting for webcompat.com]
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| * [https://github.com/webcompat/webcompat.com/milestones/Launch%201st%20Translated%20version%20of%20Webcompat.com i18n for webcompat.com] (at least 1 other language)
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| ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------
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| * Nothing here for now.
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| =Initiatives=
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| * 60fps
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| ** Focused on producing a smooth, jank free experiences. 60fps goal is dependant on media type.
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| * BarrierSmash
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| ** Ensure that accessibility features are working throughout our products.
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| * Candle
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| ** Program targeted at reducing energy usage.
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| * CrashKill
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| ** Improve the overall stability of Gecko and the project that rely on it.
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| * CritSmash
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| ** Fix known critical security bugs.
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| * Electrolysis
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| ** This is focused on providing multi-process browser (aka e10s).
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| * Offline
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| ** Offline Support
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| * Presto
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| ** Program targeted at improving overall load times and performance. This is resurrecting an older program that was discontinued.
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| * MemShrink
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| **Reduce memory usage (all products)
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| * Web Compatibility
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| ** Improve the overall web compatibility of Gecko.
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| * Webify
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| ** Reduce the webs dependence on plugins. This includes several content targeted initiatives such as the games program (Unity), [[Shumway/Roadmap|Shumway]] (Flash), [[Media/EME|MSE/EME]], WebRTC (Google Talk, Facebook Video)
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| ** [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Games#2015_Goals Games Program]
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