Mobile
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Goals
The overall goals for Mobile Firefox are:
- provide Mozilla’s standards-based open-source browser engine, optimized for mobile, that can be embedded by device manufacturers and others;
- a full-featured mobile browser including support for XUL-based add-ons, delivering on Firefox’s key principles of ease-of-use, security and accessibility;
- grow the Mozilla community in the mobile space;
- provide tools and documentation to help developers develop, debug and deploy web applications;
- do all of this work in the shared Mozilla source repositories so all platforms, desktop and mobile benefit each other
Weekly Meeting
There will be a meeting each week to discuss the status of Mobile. Please use #mobile, dev-platforms-mobile@mozilla.org or mozilla.dev.platforms.mobile for communication
Meeting Details:
- Monday @ 9:00AM PST
- +1 650-903-0800 (US/Intl) x91 conf# 314
- +1 800 707 2533 (US) pin 369 conf# 314
- #mobile for backchannel
- Agenda and notes can be found here
To Do's
There are several big ticket issues to be resolved for this project. For the most part they can be broken into these four categories.
- Performance/Memory issues
- User Experience and UI
- Ports, build instructions, platform support
- Features
Task List
Below are the current top prioritized tasks.
Bugs
Performance
| Slow full page zooming on wikipedia, Linux/ARM | ||
| not started | ||
| Too much memory used by Thebes Images to display 4.5Mb Image | ||
| not started | ||
| Enable HTTP pipelining by default | ||
| not started | ||
| compile options for improved minimo speed on arm | ||
| not started | ||
Current blocking 1.9+ performance issues
Features
UI
| Create UI for mapping keys to actions | ||
| detect key press and allow selection of action for key, map gestures to actions | ||
| Switch orientation | ||
| portrait/landscape, placement of toolbar when changing orientation | ||
Supported Platforms
We have the stated goal of supporting Windows Mobile and Linux devices. Support for other Platforms may be added in the future. We will also support several embedders who are using mozilla technology, and will keep track of that here