Firefox/Goals/2010Q3

Firefox Development

• [NEW] Feature complete Firefox 4
  • [DONE] Switch to Tab
  • [ON TRACK] Extension Manager - Functionality there, lots of bugs to fix.
  • [ON TRACK] Notification UI - Geo done, patches on follow up bugs.
  • [ON TRACK] New Theme - Substantially done on Windows and Mac, Linux lagging.
  • [ON TRACK] App Tabs - UI in place, functionality follow ups to get to feature complete
  • [ON TRACK] Silent updates on Windows
  • [AT RISK] Account Manager - Partial work, restaffing to get this one done.
  • [AT RISK] TabCandy - Reviews done on standalone pieces like iQ. Reviews pending on patches that touch browser code.
  • [AT RISK] Inspector
  • [AT RISK] Web Console
  • [AT RISK] Integrated Sync - Landed, activation caused leaks, Sync team (mconnor, ragavan) owns this.

• [NEW] Dirty profile startup within 20% of clean profile startup (modulo extensions, plugins; on windows)
  • Shawn has a blog post with preliminary data
  • Session Restore is the biggest single culprit
  • Bugs filed for session restore bug 582005 and excessive cookie i/o bug 572223(fixed)

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