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Firefox 12
Firefox 12: Desktop
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Media Controls Refresh | Landed | ` | OK | Asa Dotzler | 15 March 2012 17:03:21 |
| Silent Update: Removal of OS security dialog for Windows | Shipped | Work landed in Firefox 12. | OK | Lawrence Mandel | 2 May 2012 19:10:51 |
Firefox 12: Mobile
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 12: Dev Tools
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Console Queued Message Display | Landed | Currently available in Nightly. | OK | Dave Camp | 23 February 2012 10:33:03 |
Firefox 12: Platform
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Generic Thumbnail Service | Shipped | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497543 | OK | ` | 2 May 2012 23:54:08 |
Firefox 12: Jetpack
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 12: Services
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 11
Firefox 11: Desktop
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Migrate Chrome settings and data | Development | m_kato landed part 1 (Fx11) which includes cookies, history, and bookmarks. He's set to start work on the next set - passwords, form data, and settings. | OK | Asa Dotzler | 12 April 2012 20:17:13 |
| TLS Telemetry | Development | Waiting for feature review | At risk | David Chan | 7 February 2012 03:08:05 |
Firefox 11: Mobile
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Text Readability | Development | Core code has landed in time for Firefox 11; uncertain whether the heuristics for dealing with Web pages are going to be able to be in shape in time (or how much change will need to happen to get them in shape). | At risk | Sheila Mooney | 13 March 2012 21:07:23 |
Firefox 11: Dev Tools
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Style Editor | Shipped | Feature has landed | OK | Dave Camp | 12 April 2012 20:26:37 |
| Page Inspector Tilt (3D View) | Shipped | Landed | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 27 March 2012 18:17:34 |
Firefox 11: Platform
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 11: Jetpack
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 11: Services
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Push to Device | Definition |
Scratchpad is available at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/syncdevice-tabstate Source code for the in-progress implementation can be found on the *gps/send-tab-to-device* branch of the Git repository git://github.com/mozilla-services/services-central.git (https://github.com/mozilla-services/services-central/tree/gps/send-tab-to-device). Some features are available in the UX nightly build, available from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-ux/. |
OK | Jennifer Arguello | 26 October 2011 20:58:34 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Addon Sync | Landed | Feature landed in Firefox 11. | OK | Jennifer Arguello | 20 December 2011 19:28:12, 22 December 2011 20:31:44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Firefox 10
Firefox 10: Desktop
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Silent Update: Add-ons Default to Compatible | Shipped | Changes landed and enabled on Fx10. | OK | Lawrence Mandel | 10 February 2012 21:08:45 |
| Add-on hotfixes | Shipped | ` | OK | Christian Legnitto & Alex Keybl | 1 March 2012 21:20:57 |
Firefox 10: Mobile
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Safebrowsing Back-end | Development | Slipped due to back-end issues. Trying to reduce required file size on mobile device. | OK | Doug Turner | 21 October 2011 18:05:26 |
| Touch Events part 2: Multitouch | Development | Patches in progress. | OK | Matt Brubeck (mbrubeck) | 13 October 2011 00:10:58 |
| Accelerated layers on mobile via OpenGL ES | Development | Working pretty well, still has some bugs. Still looking for better performance numbers. Anecdote - scrolling is better, still work to do though. | OK | JPR | 12 January 2012 16:04:46 |
| Anti-malware/phishing - front-end | Development | Some patches landed, but not enabled yet because of bugs. | OK | Mark Finkle | 27 September 2011 18:16:15 |
Firefox 10: Dev Tools
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Console Object Completion | Shipped | ` | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 27 March 2012 18:17:17 |
| Style Inspector | Shipped | ` | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 27 March 2012 18:15:58 |
| Code Editor | Shipped | ` | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 27 March 2012 18:16:17 |
| CSS Rules View | Shipped | ` | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 27 March 2012 18:16:54 |
| Page Inspector / Highlighter | Shipped | ` | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 27 March 2012 18:15:50 |
Firefox 10: Platform
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Anti-Aliasing for WebGL | Development | Development is underway. | OK | JPR | 8 December 2011 19:19:09 |
| Test Suite Fixes for WebGL | Development | Underway | OK | JPR | 13 October 2011 00:09:27 |
| CSS3 3D Transforms | Landed | This has landed and is looking good for 10. Nothing currently on the radar that is expected to interfere with it's release. | OK | Martin Best | 16 January 2012 10:21:43 |
| DOM Bindings: Node List and Array Bindings | Landed | Landed. | OK | Johnny Stenback | 29 December 2011 23:45:35 |
| Full Screen APIs | Landed | This is tracking to release in Firefox 10. | OK | Martin Best | 14 November 2011 16:20:18 |
Firefox 10: Jetpack
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 10: Services
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Sync Setup Improvements | Landed | Landed in Aurora | OK | Jennifer Arguello | 10 April 2012 14:42:23 |
Firefox 10: Bugs
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Features/Firefox10Bugs
Firefox 9
Firefox 9: Desktop
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 9: Mobile
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Camera UI for Mobile | Landed | Landed in Firefox 9 | OK | Fabrice Desré | 13 December 2011 19:17:17 |
| Tablet UI - Main browser layout | Landed | Landed for Firefox 9. Ongoing polish and bug-fixing work will happen in Firefox 10 (Nightly) and Firefox 9 (Aurora). | OK | Mark Finkle | 27 September 2011 18:07:10 |
Firefox 9: Dev Tools
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 9: Platform
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Make DNT signal accessible from the navigator global object | Complete | ` | OK | ` | 27 April 2012 21:14:12 |
| Type Inference for the JavaScript engine | Landed | This has landed and may make Firefox 9, assuming it's stable. | OK | David Mandelin | 13 October 2011 00:25:22 |
Firefox 9: Jetpack
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 9: Services
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 8
Firefox 8: Desktop
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Add People Search to Firefox (Twitter) | Landed | ` | OK | ` | 1 November 2011 14:53:16 |
| Confirm add-ons on upgrade | Landed | ` | OK | Dave Townsend | 16 October 2011 12:45:17 |
| Expose prefs for tabs-on-demand | Landed | ` | OK | Alex Limi | 3 November 2011 09:40:49 |
| Ensure user accepts add-ons installed by third-party apps | Landed | Feature made it in to Firefox 8 | OK | Dave Townsend | 3 November 2011 14:29:46 |
| Silent Update: Lessen the showing of the what's new page | Shipped | Working with Product Marketing on the new channels to communicate to our users. | OK | Lawrence Mandel | 23 November 2011 19:10:30 |
| Silent Update: Lessen the display of app update UI | Shipped | This feature is considered complete with the change to display the app update UI after 24 hours (previously 12 hours), however other related work remains open. | OK | Lawrence Mandel | 23 November 2011 19:10:14 |
Firefox 8: Mobile
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Web Apps integration in Firefox for Android | Development | Basic support landed in Firefox 8. Additional work in progress for Firefox 9. | OK | Mark Finkle | 13 October 2011 00:23:59 |
| Encrypt local data | Landed | Master Password support landed in Firefox 8. Additional features (e.g. auto-generated random passwords) will be developed separately. | OK | Alex Pakhotin | 3 November 2011 15:52:52 |
Firefox 8: Dev Tools
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 8: Platform
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 8: Jetpack
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 8: Services
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 7
Firefox 7: Desktop
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Improve Responsiveness with Memory Reductions | Shipped | The big win is completed for 7. Remaining bugs can be tracked as bugs and not as true dependencies on this feature page. | OK | ` | 10 October 2011 19:02:40 |
| Simple options for add-ons embedded in the main UI | Shipped | ` | OK | Dave Townsend | 10 October 2011 19:03:11 |
Firefox 7: Mobile
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| L10N: Better first-run experience / language choice | Development | basic functionality landed, more to come in Firefox 8 and 9 - In 7 users can choose one of the languages in the multi-locale pack. All language packs will move to AMO with Fx9, while Firefox 9 for Android will be delivered in en-US only - in that version, the first-run will detect the Android OS language and auto-install languages from AMO. | OK | ` | 13 October 2011 00:06:09 |
| Session Store Enhancements | Landed | ` | OK | Mark Finkle | 22 August 2011 09:18:33 |
| High-quality image scaling | Landed | Landed in Firefox 6 for NEON devices, and in Firefox 7 for non-NEON (Tegra) devices. | OK | Jeff | 24 August 2011 06:55:27 |
| Android-style text selection handles | Landed | Some follow-up bugs being fixed in Firefox 8 and 9 | OK | Thomas Arend | 18 August 2011 17:53:10 |
Also tracking
Firefox 7: Dev Tools
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 7: Platform
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Support for NavigationTiming interfaces | Complete | Done. | OK | Chris Blizzard | 10 November 2011 18:59:52 |
| Azure Direct2D backend for canvas | Landed | being actively worked on the graphics project branch | OK | Bas Schouten | 28 September 2011 12:51:47 |
| Better rendering of fonts for Windows | Landed | This landed for Firefox 7. Smaller fonts are now rendered with GDI instead of the new font APIs. There is some investigation going on for future work but this is essentially done for now. | OK | ` | 12 April 2012 20:48:29 |
| Telemetry | Landed | ` | OK | Taras Glek | 28 September 2011 12:52:32 |
Also tracking
Firefox 7: Jetpack
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 7: Services
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Instant Sync | Shipped | Landed in Firefox 7. | OK | Jennifer Arguello | 23 November 2011 18:39:56 |
Firefox 6
Firefox 6: Desktop
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Web Developer Menu | Complete | ` | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 8 December 2011 19:16:41 |
| Autocompletion Popup for Web Console | Complete | ` | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 2 September 2011 14:21:14 |
| Web Console Improvements | Complete | ` | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 2 September 2011 14:21:39 |
| Scratchpad | Complete | SDR: C SIR: N | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 8 December 2011 19:22:19 |
| Link plugin checker from AOM | Shipped | ` | OK | Dave Townsend | 23 August 2011 01:01:50 |
| Load Panorama groups on-demand | Shipped | ` | OK | Alex Limi | 24 August 2011 20:39:08 |
| Panorama groups should always persist | Shipped | ` | OK | Alex Limi | 13 October 2011 00:21:26 |
| Promote Sync in bookmark and password doorhangers | Shipped | Landed. Bugs already found and tests need to be fixed in Aurora. | OK | Jennifer Arguello | 24 August 2011 20:38:31 |
| Revamp about:memory | Shipped | ` | OK | Nicholas Nethercote | 24 August 2011 20:39:25 |
| Site-based data management UI | Shipped | Landed on mozilla-central. | OK | Sid Stamm | 24 August 2011 20:40:18 |
| Highlight the domain name in the location bar | Shipped | ` | OK | Dao Gottwald | 23 August 2011 00:59:44 |
| Support High Resolution Scrolling on Windows | Shipped | Main implementation bugs point to Firefox 6 as Milestone. Please correct me if I am wrong. | OK | Alex Faaborg | 23 August 2011 01:03:10 |
Also tracking
- matchMedia support (Landed)
- Server-Sent DOM events / Remote Events / EventSource (bug 338583) (Landed)
Firefox 6: Mobile
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Rewrite/mobilize UI text | Shipped | ` | OK | Madhava Enros | 25 August 2011 16:27:06 |
| Better integration for form assistant on Android | Shipped | ` | OK | ` | 13 October 2011 00:01:35 |
| Visual Refresh (Gingerbread) | Shipped | ` | OK | Thomas Arend | 25 August 2011 16:26:54 |
| Touch Events part 1: single-touch | Shipped | ` | OK | Matt Brubeck | 13 October 2011 00:04:22 |
| Enable IndexedDB local storage for mobile | Shipped | ` | OK | Doug Turner | 13 October 2011 00:04:10 |
| Better first-run / Browser discoverability | Shipped | ` | OK | Thomas Arend | 13 October 2011 00:05:04 |
Also tracking
Firefox 6: Dev Tools
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| Web Console Improvements | Complete | ` | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 2 September 2011 14:21:39 |
| Autocompletion Popup for Web Console | Complete | ` | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 2 September 2011 14:21:14 |
| Web Developer Menu | Complete | ` | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 8 December 2011 19:16:41 |
| Scratchpad | Complete | SDR: C SIR: N | OK | Kevin Dangoor | 8 December 2011 19:22:19 |
Firefox 6: Platform
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
| <progress> | Complete | Shipped. | OK | Mounir Lamouri | 8 December 2011 19:20:54 |
| Websockets | Landed | Initial impl has landed and shipped. So this is done. There's a seprate unprefixing task on another page. | OK | Pat McManus | 24 October 2011 21:46:11 |
| Background finalization for JavaScript strings and objects | Shipped | ` | OK | David Mandelin | 13 October 2011 00:21:58 |
Also tracking
Firefox 6: Jetpack
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 6: Services
| Feature | Stage | Status note | Health | Feature manager | Last Updated |
Firefox 5
Firefox 5: Desktop
SDR - Security Design Review | SIR - Security Implementation Review {?-TBD,N-Not Neccessary,P-Pending,C-complete}
| Feature | Status | ETA | Owner |
| Channel Switching | We removed the Channel Switching UI for Firefox 5. We tracked this with Bug 659972. | 5.0 | Sheila Mooney |
| Associate the webm file extension with Firefox | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Jim Mathies |
| Move Do-not-track setting to the Privacy pane | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Sid Stamm |
| When closing a tab with pointing device, don't immediately resize other tabs | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Frank Yan |
| When closing a tab in Panorama, don't immediately resize other tabs | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Tim Taubert |
| Improve Hebrew font rendering on OS X | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Jonathan Kew |
| Dropped the Keep-Alive HTTP header (Standards) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Pat McManus |
| HTTP Transactions sorted by CWND (Performance) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Pat McManus |
| Content-Disposition changes for correctness (Standards) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Julian Reschke |
| CSS Animations | landed
SDR: N || SIR: C |
Fx5 | David Baron |
| Framerate & stats on video elements | landed
SDR: N || SIR: C |
Fx5 | Chris Pearce |
| PGO 10% win on SS | backed out, bug 338583
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Someone |
| setTimeout now clamped to a minimum of 4ms (Standards and Benchmarks) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Boris Zbarsky |
| setTimeout in background tabs bug 614733 & bug 633421 (Performance) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Boris Zbarsky |
| make mozRequestAnimationFrame much smoother with large callback functions (Performance) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Boris Zbarsky |
| significant querySelector speedup (Performance) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Boris Zbarsky |
| Miscellaneous canvas performance improvements (Performance) bug 638241 bug 639689 | landed
SDR: N || SIR: C |
Fx5 | Robert O'Callahan |
| better memory reporting for SQLite databases bug 615978 | landed
SDR: N || SIR: C |
Fx5 | Shawn Wilsher |
| Implement createImageData(ImageData) (Standards) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: S |
Fx5 | Ms2ger |
| Add support for XHR's loadend event (Standards) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Olli Pettay |
| Canvas text baselines not fully implemented (Standards) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Peter Annema |
| Don't reveal UI language to site/page) (Privacy) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Ben Bucksch |
| MathML Embellished Operators (Standards) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: C |
Fx5 | Karl Tomlinson |
| Support SMIL animation of the 'class' attribute (Standards) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Robert Longson |
| Expose public APIs for converting doubles to signed/unsigned int per ECMA spec | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Andreas Gal |
| All HTML Elements should have click() and accesskey | landed
SDR: N || SIR: C |
Fx5 | Boris Zbarsky |
| Remove support for UTF-7 per HTML5 spec | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Simon Montagu |
| Remove support for UTF-32 per HTML5 spec | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Simon Montagu |
| force font metrics of Arial Black to match the main Arial family | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Jonathan Kew |
| Optimize pages with lots of combo-boxes (Performance) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Ehsan Akhgari |
| Improved spell checking with updated Hunspell | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Ryan VanderMeulen |
| Make our canvas implementation more compliant to the spec (Standards) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: C |
Fx5 | Ms2ger |
| SSE optimizations for some Gecko internals (Performance) | landed
SDR: N || SIR: C |
Fx5 | Justin Lebar |
| Support WOFF on Android | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Makoto Kato |
| Improve the smooth scroll animation | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Markus Stange |
| Some MathML improvements | landed
SDR: N || SIR: C |
Fx5 | Frédéric Wang |
| GIO/GVFS integration for opening sftp:// or smb:// URIs directly in Firefox under Gnome | landed
SDR: N || SIR: C |
Fx5 | jhorak |
| Add color keywords for default text and background colors | landed
SDR: N || SIR: N |
Fx5 | Florian Quèze |
Firefox 5: Mobile
Firefox 5: Jetpack
| Feature | Status | ETA | Owner |
| Create Firefox Add-ons using standard web programming skills | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| APIs to cover at least 80% of all Add-on use-cases | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| Automatic testing of add-ons | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| Automatic packaging of add-ons | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| Full documentation & tutorial | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| API: Access to System Clipboard | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| API: Create New Context Menu Items | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| API: Create toaster-style notifications | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| API: Create new Keyboard shortcuts for features | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| API: Execute scripts on web pages to modify page content | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| API: Create pop-up dialogs, or panels | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| API: Store and access creditials/passwords for webpages or the add-on | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| API: Access Firefox's private browsing mode | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| API: Make network requests | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| API: Simple storage to persist data across restarts | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| API: Access tabs or windows and their events | landed | JP1.0 | -- |
| API: Clean widget creation that blends in well with Firefox | landed | JP1.0 | -- |



