Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting:
- Fx 2.0.0.7 – No report
- TBird 2.0.0.7 – No report
- TBird 1.5.0.13 – Going thru QA at this time and could be released this week
- TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) – Released last week
- TBird 3 –
- Fx3 – New features released and soon-to-be released
- Released Items:
- Plugin management (mwu, carryover from last week)
- Plugin blocklisting (mwu)
- New Downloads Manager UI (sdwilsh, carryover from last week, number of bugfixes)
- New Bookmarking UI with starring and tagging (mano)
- Soon-To-Be Released
- Vista Parental controls
- Post-submit pwmgr prompt (infobar, not modal)
- Unified history/bookmarks search for location bar autocomplete
- Web apps as protocol handlers
- Released Items:
- Gecko 1.9 – Continuing to resolve regressions from items that landed on the M7 (Alpha 7) feature complete release.
- Mozilla Community – Fx3/Gecko 1.9 Projects with help of the MoCo Summer Interns (Christine Yen, Steve Won, Michael Wu and Shawn Wilsher):
- Plugin Management
- Longstanding request/need
- Support disabling/uninstalling all plugins
- Blocklisting of vulnerable plugin versions (top vector of attack against Firefox users)
- Windows/Linux shutdown handling
- Better shutdown handling/experience (single save session/quit dialog)
- Avoids dataloss and/or confusing dialogs on next startup
- Places
- UI prototyping/implementation help
- Fixing core front end bugs
- Protocol handling front end
- Still in progress, but major step forward
- Download manager rewrite
- Backend rewrite to move to SQLite, improve API for extension authors
- Frontend redesign to support ease of use, searching
- SQLite improvements
- Move to current SQLite, performance improvements and bugfixes
- Use our i18n support in place of ICU
- Plugin Management
Complete meeting notes.
