Mozilla Project Weekly: August 10, 2009

Firefox 3.0.13 -> 3.5.2 major update
- planning to “push” a major update to users of Firefox 3.0.13
- haven’t determined schedule yet, but either this week or next
Firefox 3.0.14
- code freeze tomorrow
- targeting early September release
Firefox 3.5.3
- code freeze tomorrow
- targeting early September release
Firefox 3.6
- Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 shipped on Friday, August 7th
- updated the plan to reflect what we’ve talked about for the past two months
- next milestone: Firefox 3.6 Beta 1
- plan on branching mozilla-1.9.2 from mozilla-central later this week

Gecko 1.9.2
- I know he’s been with us for a while, but now he’s officially with us full-time. Please welcome David Bolter, working on accessibility in Toronto!
- Last week, at SIGGRAPH 2009, Khronos gave more details on the WebGL initiative.
  - Mozilla’s leading the Khronos working group, with Arun Ranganathan being the working group’s chair.
  - A lot of this work is based on Vladimir Vukicevic’s work on Canvas3D; Mozilla’s implementation of Web3D is based on canvas3d, with the work needed to update it to the new standard being done by Mark Steele.
  - Both Apple and Google have implementations of Web3D as well. Google showed their implementation at the Khronos OpenGL BoF at SIGGRAPH last week. Great response from the audience.
  - Our basic assumption is that JavaScript is fast enough, and in Mozilla’s case, that’s thanks to the Tracemonkey folks.