Mobile Newsletter – Week of December 23th 2011

Welcome Firefox Mobile testers and Happy Holidays!

Our goal is to provide you with mobile news and guidance towards how and where you as a tester can help out!

• Session tab restore

• Save Image

• Native crashes reported separately in Socorro!

• Clear site settings (Clears site login,  geolocation settings, popup settings)

• Newsgroup archive is available : https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/android-mobile-nightly-testers/

• Feel free to discuss issues you encountered in this email newsgroup!

• Features to look at now: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/NightlyFeatures

• Save Image

• Click to play (flash) Improvements

• Clear site settings (Clears site login,  geolcation settins, popup settings)

• Viewport improvements

• Tab UI improvements

• Native crashes reported separately : https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/FennecAndroid

• Session tab restore (Restore tabs from previous session)

• Robotium support

• Character Encoding

• Note: Features are now being frozen, this build will be moving on to Aurora

• Enable ‘Unknown sources’ in Settings | Application Settings on your Android device

• Go to: http://nightly.mozilla.org

• Click and download the Android installer under the mobile section

• Head to your favorite sites and file bugs on sites that do not work or don’t meet your expectations

• Download the Zippity Addon: http://people.mozilla.com/~mfinkle/fennec/addons/testharness-mobile.xpi and go to about:testharness to perform various tests

• Explore away with testing these features https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/NightlyFeatures

• Nightly builds now support Flash (on Android 2.3 and Android 2.2)

• Note: you will need to download and have installed the latest version of the Flash Player from the Android Market

• Feedback Questionnaire : What are the 3 top things that you think needs to improve? Please reply to this mailing list: android-mobile-nightly-testers@mozilla.org

• If you think you’ve discovered a bug, you have options:

• Discuss the issue in this email newsgroup

• you can file it in Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org) under the product: “Fennec Native”, or just follow this link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fennec%20Native.

• You can also feel free to message this mailing list if you have questions in regards to features: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platforms-mobile

• Any feedback on the newsletter can go to: Naoki at nhirata@mozilla.com

• To subscribe :  please go to https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/android-mobile-nightly-testers

Til next time,

The Mobile QA Team