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Firefox Platform 2015 Roadmap | ||
Owner: Martin Best | Updated: 2015-07-21 | |
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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Definition of Done: All listed features are present in our nightly version of Firefox. The features must then go through the standard quality assurance process before appearing in a release channel.
Accessibility
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DOM
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e10s
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Graphics
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JavaScript
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Layout
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Media
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Mobile Platform
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Networking
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PKI
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Sandboxing
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Security
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WebRTC / WebAudio
(All these features/fixes below are landing in Nightly during these quarters)
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Web Compatibility
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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