Firefox/Goals/2010Q3

Firefox Development

• [NEW] Feature complete Firefox 4
  • [DONE] Switch to Tab
  • [ON TRACK] Extension Manager - Bug list is converging, still a lot of work to do.
  • [ON TRACK] Notification UI - Geo and EM notifications done, http auth next.
  • [ON TRACK] New Theme - Windows and Mac good, Linux lagging.
  • [ON TRACK] App Tabs - Scope for 4.0 reduced (non-global), near feature complete.
  • [ON TRACK] TabCandy - Sorting out session restore behaviour, near feature complete.
  • [AT RISK] Silent updates on Windows
  • [AT RISK] Inspector
  • [AT RISK] Web Console
  • [DROPPED] Account Manager - WIP patches posted, but we can't contain the review load and code risk.

• [NEW] Dirty profile startup within 20% of clean profile startup (modulo extensions, plugins; on windows)
  • Shawn has an updated blog post. Read it for more info.
  • Excessive cookie i/o bug bug 572223(fixed)
  • Session restore bug 582005

• [NEW] Jetpack API-complete for 1.0 (All JEPs E10s-aware/safe)
  • [DONE] 1.0 SDK final API set selected
  • [DONE] 0.6 Release
  • [DONE] 0.7 Release
  • [ON TRACK] 0.8 Release (1.0)

Developer Tools

Bespin

• Highlight the use of official vs. unofficial modules in FlightDeck (bug 572115)
• Detect errors in user code (bug 572259)
• Initial JavaScript server (bug 572260)
• JavaScript server hosting plan (bug 572261)

Firefox 4

• No beta-blocking bugs left for integrated Firefox 4 Inspector
• No beta-blocking bugs left for integrated Firefox 4 Console

Mobile UI/JS Framework

• A basic cross-platform set of HTML/CSS/JavaScript for developers to create mobile applications with (includes basic form functionality as well).

Org

• Create cohesive vision & strategy for Developer Tools group going forward (includes both client and server based solutions)