As Mozilla buckles down on shipping its first beta of Firefox 4, the Firefox team has posted the first “Theme Roadmap,” a look at what Firefox has accomplished in a specific area and where it should go.

The Privacy & User Control roadmap gives a quick overview of Mozilla’s work on Firefox 1, 2, and 3.5 as well as where it intends to go for Firefox 4. To wit:

Local Disk Privacy

• extend privacy control to plugins
• locally encrypt passwords and form data by default
• token/client certificate support for authentication / sync

Online Privacy

• analyse use cases for third party cookies, choose better defaults
• auto-expiring cookies
• put behavioural tracking in user’s control (opt-in)
• reduce browser signature in UA header and other inspectible APIs
• continue to invest in web infrastructure that solves desired use cases while putting control in user’s hands

User Interface changes to enhance user control

• consolidate site permissions into single manager
• provide actionable controls per-site

Some of the future roadmaps that have yet to be published include Search, Social, Web Apps, and Performance.

As for specific product roadmaps, Mozilla has maintained a Firefox 4 beta page for some time. It includes quite a bit of information on what the first Firefox 4 beta will look like, including the inclusion of Test Pilot as an option when installing. Of course, the page discussing this is on Mozilla’s private intranet and no bug has been filed to track the work, so we’re left to guessing what this means.

(Psst. Speaking of Firefox 4, if you want a sneak peak of the pages that will go live on mozilla.com with the beta, they’re right here.)