Platform/Roadmap

	Firefox Platform 2015 Roadmap
	Owner: Martin Best	Updated: 2015-03-25
	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.

Related Links:

• Firefox Desktop Q1 2015 Areas of Focus Post
• Firefox Release Calendar
• 2012 Platform Roadmap

Teams

Accessibility

Current Plans

Previous Plans

[everything below not finalized] Screen Reader v1.0 for FxOS. Integrate and expand FxOS accessibility test coverage. Webspeech TTS hookup on Windows Instantiate "BarrierSmash" program ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ Accessibility support for E10s. (stretch targeting Gecko 40) Accessibility Metrics ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ Accessibility Dev Tool. Accessibility Training Materials Web Facing Accessibility API ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

Nothing here for now.

DOM

Current Plans

Previous Plans

Service Workers IndexedDB in Workers Picture Tag requestSync (FxOS-only precursor to BackgroundSync) TCP Socket in Workers e10s (drag-and-drop, clipboard, leak detection and reporting) ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ BackgroundSync Pre-rendering API Shadow DOM Custom Elements Web Manifest ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ Web Push Media Controls API localStorage + Quota Manager Image Resizing API FileSystem API Web Share primitive (towards Web Activities standardization) finish remaining WebIDL conversions JS-implemented plugins IndexedDB data change observer events Device Orientation Locking (any spec work; others doing implementation) Broadcast channel Message Port Remove appcache Directory upload DOM bits of Object.observe Get rid of child array WebGL in Workers Web Audio in Workers ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

e10s

Current Plans

Previous Plans

e10s Milestone 4 completed in Gecko 38 (buglist) e10s Milestone 5 completed in Gecko 38 (buglist) e10s Milestone 6 completed in Gecko ~39 (buglist) Addon migration / CPOW mitigation tools ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ e10s rollout to Aurora ~39 e10s Milestone 7 completed in Nightly ~39 (buglist) e10s Milestone 8 completed in Nightly ~39 (buglist) e10s rollout to Beta ~39 ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ e10s rollout to Release milestone completion placeholder - additional milestones will be defined later in the year for winding the e10s project down. ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

Graphics

Current Plans

Previous Plans

FirefoxOS GFX Device Support OMTC - Off Main Thread Compositing Windows e10s - Ship Electrolysis Project Silk Graphics - FirefoxOS Critical Memory Usage Reduction WebGL 2 Demo WebGL Desktop Performance Desktop OOM driver related issues ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ APZ on Desktop Tiling on Desktop Desktop Scrolling Performance ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ APZ - "fake overscroll" APZ - OOP iframe support Zooming-in Improvements Overscroll Improvements Expose the graphics card details WebGL Mobile Performance WebGL Performance Parity on Desktop ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

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JavaScript

Current Plans

Previous Plans

Parsing and Caching Optimization Shumway ARM Mobile Opts - Support demo Detailed GC jank Telemetry ES6 Classes SAB demo SIMD.js demos ARM 64 baseline on Intel CGC Target release JIT Frame for Profiler JIT Coach plumbing Experimental SIMD.js for ASM.js on x86 only (Intel demo) ES6 Generators JITted ES6 Symbols ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ SIMD.js on ION Intel GC/CC scheduling improvements Shared Array Buffer v1 Research PGO Enable the backtracking allocator for all Ion code Improve web framework (Shumway/Ember/Angular) performance ES6 let and const ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ JS team reduce jank (GC tuning) SIMD.js on ION ARM ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

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Layout

Current Plans

Previous Plans

Enable OMT Animations on all OMTC platforms -webkit CSS compatibility for fix-list sites Images downscale during decode for APZC platforms Vertical Text (basic text, form controls) CSS Font Loading CSS Object fit and position CSS display:contents CSS scroll snapping ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ Web Animation API HTML5 <canvas> improvements e10s Layout Support Vertical Text (tables) CSS 3D Transforms ( plane splitting & other interop improvements ) CSS Ruby ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ CSS Images (media-fragments) CSS Shapes (shape-outside for floats) CSS Box Alignment (for block layout) CSS Grid ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------ CSS Masking ------ Items above planned to be done before end 2015 but may get reprioritized ------

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Media

Current Plans

Previous Plans

MSE - Media Source Extensions (release Windows 7 and later/YouTube only) EME - Encrypted Media Extensions (beta 38 Windows 7 and later) ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ MSE (release) EME (release) Daala ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ MSE improvements EME continued development Video quality, performance and memory consumption MP4 demuxer written in Rust ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

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Mobile Platform

Current Plans

Previous Plans

Enhance Page Load Performance Platform-independent MP3 parser, platform-dependent decoders Ensure all crash reports are going to Socorro OpenH264 on Android ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ Standalone WebRTC library usable by third parties Loop client prototype for major platforms (iOS, Android, Windows) Pre-Rendering Web Pages Background Hang Reporting (BHR) working with E10S Enhance screen mirroring performance ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ Allow multiple Gecko windows via multiple GeckoView instances Download locales on-demand in split APK (snorp, esawin) Download fonts on-demand in split APK Improve Power Effeciency ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

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Networking

Current Plans

Previous Plans

HTTP/2 ships preffed on (currently scheduled for Gecko 35) Network Predictor landed & enabled on m-c (bug 1009122) Idle mode for networking (optimize radio power use): (bug 1085760) ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ Necko bits needed for Smart Data Management (split "System" data into browser, apps, etc): (bug 1070944) ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ Network predictor: prefetch resources into HTTP cache if they are very likely to be used. ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

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PKI

Current Plans

Previous Plans

OneCRL Phase 1 of CA program migration to SalesForce SHA-1 warnings ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ Name constraints on root CAs OneCRL based on (subject, public key) Certificate observatory Finish removal of 1024-bit roots ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ WebCrypto hardware-backed keys Certificate transparency (behind a pref) Mozilla::pkix integration with NSS Intermediate certs in SalesForce ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------ TLS 1.3 Certificate chain collection from browsers

WebCrypto

Sandboxing

Current Plans

Previous Plans

EME/CDM sandboxing for Windows 7+ e10s sandboxing for Windows e10s sandboxing for OS X e10s sandboxing for Linux ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ EME/CDM sandboxing for Windows XP and Vista ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ EME/CDM sandboxing for OS X EME/CDM sandboxing for Linux ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

Security

Current Plans

Previous Plans

Security hooks revamp completed for Gecko internals. Add on signing support available. UX design for insecure password warning in Dev Edition/Dev Tools = bug 1135766 Security for DevTools: Prototype CSP (content-security policy) analysis in Dev Edition/Dev Tools - bug 1129999 Re-enable remote lookups for application reputation - bug 10900754 ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ Tracking Protection Experiments - bug 1119891. Security for DevTools: Insecure passwords warning in Dev Edition/Dev Tools - bug 1118558 bug 748193. SRI (Sub-resource integrity) for 3rd party scripts and styles - bug 992096. Security for DevTools: CSP (content-security policy) analysis and suggestions in Dev Edition/Dev Tools - bug 1129999. CSP upgrade-insecure-requests - bug 1139297. ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ Containers for isolated non-private browsing sessions. Evolving Referrer Policy. Encryption for password manager database. Prototype for isolated Private Browsing sessions. Lightbeam-lite/Tracking Detection. Security hooks revamp complete for addons/extensions. ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

WebRTC / WebAudio

(All these features/fixes below are landing in Nightly during these quarters)

Current Plans

Previous Plans

Rewrite SDP/JSEP and add BUNDLE support Multistream, renegotiation support VP9 codec support in WebRTC (we may ship VP9 pref'd off by default) Web Audio and WebRTC working well together ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ OpenH264 for Android working well Audio workers Web Audio performance improvements Simulcast e10s problems fixed All echo and audio problems in WebRTC 1:1 calls resolved ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ getUserMedia and audio output sandboxing working Considerably better NAT traversal (including ICE proxy and UPnP support) Audio output selection Data channels in workers Compliant with "v1.0" (or equivalent) of the WebRTC spec ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

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Web Compatibility

Current Plans

Previous Plans

Hold WebCompat Summit Compatibility Telemetry Reusable Workshop + conference materials developed ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 39 (Q1) ------ Compatibility dashboard for Telemetry, Bugzilla Develop automated mobile compatibility infrastructure (to be tracked on dashboard) Redundant GitHub webcompat/web-bugs issues data storage. ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 42 (Q2) ------ Ship MDN Web Compat Service, in conjunction with MDN + Cloud Services teams Get 1 other major browser vendor involved in webcompat.com Better mobile reporting for webcompat.com i18n for webcompat.com (at least 1 other language) ------ Items above planned to be done before or during Gecko 45 (End 2015) ------

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Initiatives

• 60fps
  • Focused on producing a smooth, jank free experiences. 60fps goal is dependant on media type.
• BarrierSmash
  • Ensure that accessibility features are working throughout our products.
• Candle
  • Program targeted at reducing energy usage.
• CrashKill
  • Improve the overall stability of Gecko and the project that rely on it.
• CritSmash
  • Fix known critical security bugs.
• Electrolysis
  • This is focused on providing multi-process browser (aka e10s).
• Offline
  • Offline Support
• Presto
  • Program targeted at improving overall load times and performance. This is resurrecting an older program that was discontinued.
• MemShrink
  • Reduce memory usage (all products)
• Web Compatibility
  • Improve the overall web compatibility of Gecko.
• Webify
  • Reduce the webs dependence on plugins. This includes several content targeted initiatives such as the games program (Unity), Shumway (Flash), MSE/EME, WebRTC (Google Talk, Facebook Video)
  • Games Program