User:Anaaktgeboren/MetroFirefox
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Why
- Metro on windows will be big with the launch of windows 8
- Being marketed heavily to the development community with the lure of 1 program, all windows devices (potentially including xbox)
- the default browser setting is shared between metro & classic, meaning that if a user sets IE as their default on metro, if they have it set to firefox on classic, it will still flip that setting. This could severely impact our market share.
- highly desired by Product Management for the H1 product. :)
Contact
- #windev
- There is no mailing list currently, email group
Team of awesome
- mbrubeck - tech lead (front end)
- mfinkle - fennec battle hardened (management)
- jimm (back end, windows guru)
- fryn (front end)
- Asa (product)
- ywang (UX)
former eng
- jwilde - did a bunch of front end for internship
- bbondy - did a bunch of backend (now on b2g)
Day to day Affairs & Meetings
- Tuesdays 1pm pst - product/ux
- Thursdays 1pm pst - eng focused
- triage sometimes happens at the thursday meetings
Where are the bugs?
- Bugs do not have their own component. Can show up in Firefox or in Widget:Win32
- use "Windows 8 Metro" in the OS field
Where's the code?
- elm hg branch: http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/
- /browser/metro has the front end code
What do I need to build it?
- mac or linux? http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2012/09/19/metro-firefox-without-windows.html
- what hardware is recommended for testing?
- Windows boxen w/touch screen. The Samsung slate PC is recommended.
Schedule
- tentative : end of 2012 & middle of 2013
1.0 Shipping Requirements
- more features vs earlier ship?
- may have millions of users in short order due to win8 upgrades
- have not been defined
- scope is unclear