After five years, Mozilla Firefox steps boldly into a rejuvenated and competitive technology space of its own making. To continue to succeed, Firefox must move faster and with strong direction.
(First presented at MozCamp EU 2009 by Mike Beltzner)
6. going faster
will let us show more
will let us do more
will let us iterate more openly
means smaller projects
means frequent releases
means doing 2 things at once
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7. who is it
that we
need to
outrun?
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9. new competition
competition was once about
proprietary browser features
competition is now about
control over technology
“open source” vs
“open like the web”
10. this is the threat:
the collaborative, collective development
model that built the web may be replaced
11. we can
go faster
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18. roadmap (subject to change, as always!)
2010 firefox 3.6 personas, plugin updates, full screen video, CSS
gradients, js ctypes, more responsive, more
2010 stable, faster, WinCE, Maemo
2010
2010 firefox 3.7 weave, tab management, new theme, animation,
out of process plugins, more responsive, more
stable, faster, Android?
2010 firefox 4.0 jetpack, new user interface, task based browsing,
content creation tools, process separation, more
responsive, more stable, faster
2011
2010 firefox 4.1 ... more responsive, more stable, faster
19. challenges
communication and co-ordination
branch management & tools
localization
update and maintenance
product/feature direction
co-ordination across groups
20. firefox.next
let’s make it happen
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