Firefox/Goals/2013Q1

Firefox Desktop

• Australis
  • tabs done on UX
  • customize/panel
    • panel done
    • customize prototype + known scope

• Plugins
  • Remove PFS (consider whether a replacement is necessary for Flash)
  • Make all plugins except Flash click-to-play by default
  • Conduct user research experiment to determine feasibility of making Flash click-to-play by default
  • (Dolske proposed alternate) Better experience for the "I'm not installing $plugin and never will" case -- stop nagging user to install it.

• Performance
  • Main thread I/O removal
    • Land bug 566746/bug 697377 (form history/autocomplete storage changes)
    • Land followups to bug 699859 (convert all consumers of content prefs to new async API)
    • Land bug 825588 (new Downloads API) and have a concrete plan for switching over all consumers.
  • Sessionstore improvements
    • Land preliminary refactoring of sessionstore collection (bug 708488, bug 768648, bug 759782)
    • Scope out and fully understand remaining work needed to resolve bug 827852

• Social
  • Land share panel
  • Land addons-manager integration
  • Polish multi-provider interaction

Firefox Developer Tools

Scripting and Performance Tools

• Source Editor Update (mihai)

• Debugger Improvements (panos, victor, nick)
  • Break on *; DOM, XHR? (victor, panos)
  • Better Setter/Getter support (nick, victor)
  • Chrome Debugging fixes (loadSubScripts, XUL scripts) (panos)
  • Hovering on a "thing" for values, implementors in Source Editor
  • eval-in-frame

• Net Panel Prototype / First Cut (victor, mihai)

• Profiler Improvements (anton)
  • console api
  • gcli support
  • filtered content
  • jump to debugger
  • remotable

• Data Gathering for Performance Work (robcee, anton)

• Ship Scratchpad GIST support (nick, anton, robcee)

• Web Console Output (mihai)
  • Real DOM nodes
  • Docked VariablesView
  • Docked Network Inspector
  • A plan for JSterm

Content Tools

• Style Editor Reboot (harth)
  • Plan a key tool for making CSS changes, and understanding stylesheets
  • Refactor existing code to fix paper-cuts with a view to future work
  • Fix UX problems

• Inspector (paul, dcamp)
  • Make a remotable prototype

• Theme (paul, harth, mike)
  • Complete toolbox re-theme to flatter look

• Stability Enhancements (paul, harth, mike)
  • Make a list of top 10 bugs to fix and fix them

• Command Line (jwalker)
  • Asynchronous types
  • Various command updates
  • Make a remotable prototype

Add-on SDK

• Land the SDK apis in mozilla-central on track for release in Firefox 21.
  • Implementation schedule and policies
• Ensure Builder is compatible with SDK as shipped in Firefox 21
  • Bugs: bug 793932 & bug 793934