Firefox 1.1 Product Requirements Document

Firefox 1.1 Product Requirements
Document Code name: Deer Park

last modified. 3/23/05
engineering lead: ben@mozilla.org
qa lead: asa@mozilla.org

Summary
Bug List
Schedule
Features
System Requirements
Bundling/Install Requirements
Operational and Performance Requirements
International Features and Localizations
Server Requirements
Deployment Plan

Team

aviary
cbeard	product mgmt
chofmann	engineering mgmt
ben	module owner
darin	xulrunner
bryner	fast back/extension mgr
mconnor	update mgr
jst	content
dbaron	layout
asa	qa and l10n
chase	build/release

Summary

Firefox 1.1 will build on the success of Firefox 1.0 to continue delivering a secure, user-experience focused Web browser. Firefox 1.1 will have the following included into the product:

Improved Privacy: Clear Privacy settings and clear settings on close

Firefox will also have the following:

Improvements to application speed and web page rendering
Better Mac OS X integration

Firefox 1.1 will also be based on Gecko 1.8 with the following key enhancements: an increase in rendering/application speed; additional web standards implementations (CSS 2/3, ); scripting of plug-ins update of NPAPI; E4X; better IE compatability. We will also be correcting any product defects or usability issues that were unresolved in Firefox 1.0.

The target audience for Firefox 1.1 users is for everybody who wants to use the Web. In order to target "everybody", Firefox 1.1 needs to stay simple to use, easy to download, and extensible. The focus is on the consumer audience, though companies may deploy Firefox 1.1 throughout their organization.

Assumptions:

General public availability of Firefox 1.1 via download is targeted for late June, 2005. There will be a Developer Preview Release and a Preview Release for Firefox 1.1.

Bug List

Firefox 1.1 Bugs
Accessibility bugs (Bug 24413)

Schedule

Target Date	Milestone
April 5, 2005	Branch 1.8
April 19, 2005	Feature Complete
April 26, 2005	Developer Preview Release
May 10, 2005	UI/L10n Freeze
May 31, 2005	Preview Release
tbd	Zarro bugs
tbd	Final QA certification
July 1, 2005	Final Release

Features

General Features
Item Number	Requirement	Status	Eng. Assigned	QA Assigned/ Test Plan
	Privacy Settings: One click clear of privacy settings, allows selective clear; clear privacy settings on shutdown		ben
	Preferences reorganization		ben
	RSS improvements: style RSS feeds like feedviewer extension		mconnor
	Improved MIME type handling; allow download to desktop, open via plug-in, open via application		ben
	Software Update enhancements
	Drag and Drop: display urls via drag and drop (like Safari)

	Add Answers.com to search engine drop down (replace Dictionary.com?)		mconnor
	Mac OS X integration: default browser, set background, launch application		josh
	Mac Import managers: Apple Safari; Mozilla Camino; Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x; Omniweb 5		josh

System Requirements

Supported Platforms


Notes	System Requirements
Target Platform: Windows XP SP2 Tier 2: Everything else	Windows Operating Systems Windows XP SP2 (Recommended) Windows XP Windows Server 2003 Windows 2000 Windows NT 4.0 Windows ME Windows 98SE Windows 98 Minimum Hardware Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater) 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater) 52 MB hard drive space
Target Platform:	Linux Software Requirements Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements. Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or higher with the following libraries or packages: glibc 2.3.2 or higher XFree86-3.3.6 or higher gtk+2.0 or higher fontconfig (also known as xft) libstdc++5 Firefox has been tested on Red Hat Linux 8.0 and later Minimum Hardware Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ 233 MHz CPU (Recommended: 500MHz or greater) 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater) 52 MB hard drive space
Target platform: Mac OS 10.3	Mac Operating Systems Mac OS X 10.3.x and later (Recommended) Mac OS X 10.2.x and later Mac OS X 10.1.x Minimum Hardware PowerPC 604e 266 MHz (Recommended: PowerPC G4 667MHz or greater) G3, G4, 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater) 72 MB hard drive space

Other System Requirements

Minimum monitor resolution: 800x600 with 256 colors
Minimum modem speed: 28.8KB/sec.

Unsupported Platforms

Windows 95 (works unofficially)
Mac OS 9 (and 9.x versions) and lower
Debian, Slackware, SuSE, Caldera, and other Linux distributions that meet the above requirements are not supported, but should be compatible with this release.

Bundling/Install Requirements

There will be a default installation using a stub installer for both Windows and Linux to allow users to pick and choose what components they want before downloading to maximize download success rates
There will be a BLOB Installation package for Mac OS X as a primary method of distribution, and for Windows and Linux as a secondary form of distribution
There will be no .zip builds for Firefox 1.1


Platform	Build Requirements	Product Bundling
Windows	Firefox Setup 1.1.exe; 4.6MB Firefox Setup 1.1.exe.msi	Talkback
Linux	firefox-1.1.installer.tar.gz; 8.2MB	Talkback
Mac OS X	Firefox 1.1.dmg; 8.7MB	Talkback

Operational and Performance Requirements

Accessibility

Targeting sec508 compliance with Firefox 1.1..
UAAG compliance targeted for Firefox 1.5

Stability

The target MTBF for the Firefox 1.1 release is 80 hours on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. (Note: As the adoption of "always on" connections increases, it will become increasingly important to provide a client with a high MTBF).

Performance Requirements

Firefox 1.1 will not accept performance regressions and generally will look for 5% - 10% performance improvements over Firefox 1.0.

Item Number	Issue	Priority	Absolute Ranking	Competitive Metric	Target Imrprovement	Notes	Bugs
I.1	Start-up first time after OS reboot (cold start)	P1	1	Faster than Firefox 1.0	+10%	Once default Start behavior is competitive, secondary Start behavior becomes less critical, but still important. Top priority is most commonly used Windows OS - currently Win98.
I.2	Page layout - initial	P1	2	Faster than Firefox 1.0	+10%	What we care about: User's perception of page load speed - time it takes to layout the visible area of a screen/interact with it Reviewer's measurements (i-bench)
I.3	Window Open/Close speed	P1	3	Faster than Firefox 1.0	+10%	Leverage improvements across the app - Bookmarks mgmt window open, pref panel open, mail compose window open, etc.
I.4	Start-up after initial launch (warm-start)	P1	4	Faster than Firefox 1.0	+10%	Becomes more important as users leave computers on for longer periods of time (work/always on settings)
I.5	Back/Fwd button perf ormance (cached page load)	P1	5	Faster than Firefox 1.0	+10%	Using cached page load on the i-bench test as a proxy (need to check on this).
I.6	Time to open another component (i.e Mail)	P1	6	Faster than Firefox 1.0	+10%	Time it takes for the component window to load completely after selecting from Tasks Menu or Taskbar within Navigator.
I.7	Refresh speed as overlapping windows are moved/closed	P2	7	Faster than Firefox 1.0	+10%	Occasionally slow painting causes screen to gray out in prior location of window while it repaints - this should not be noticebable by an end-user.

International Features and Localizations

International Features
Item Number	Requirement	Status	Eng. Assigned	QA Assigned/ Test Plan

Localizations
Item Number	Lang/Locales	Status	Eng. Assigned	QA Assigned/ Test Plan

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