Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-07-05

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• Riot #release-drivers for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768
• +17207072699,,536097768# US
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

Attendees

Pascal, dmeehan, dsmith,afischer, Aryx, telin, dveditz, JR Johnson

Schedule Update

• Release 102
  • 102.0.1 desktop dot release tomorrow fixing post-release reported regressions
    • We will have corresponding focus/fenix dot release to pick up a couple of stability patches in Geckoview
• Beta 103
  • 103.0b5 GTB tonight @ 100% rollout
  • Fenix/Focus 103.0b2 live @ 100% rollout
  • End of early beta on Friday July 8
• Nightly 104
  • nothing to call out

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.64% (+0.38pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.99 (-0.02)

• Crash in [@ nsWindow::NativeMoveResizeWaylandPopupCallback]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1777919
  • developer needinfoed

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 1.92% (+0.95pp), crash rate: 2.26 (-0.03) - macOS slightly more parent process crashes from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1699936 , but still in normal range

• Crash in [@ mozilla::dom::IOUtils::Read]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1777933
  • developer peterv needinfoed, regressing change unknown

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.76% (-0.01pp), crash rate: 1.57 (-0.16)

ESR

• Startup Crash in [@ nsRemoteService::StartupServer]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1777534
  • top crash, related to security software
  • not observed for non-ESR version
  • Did Mozilla Online (China) reach out and did get a reply?

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

• Nightly 104 WebRTC regression testing - signed off Green
• New features - currently working on test plans and test cases

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Build validation - 103.0b3-build1 and 103.0b4-build1 signed off Green
• Beta 103 feature preliminary testing in progress and reports will be sent until tomorrow EOD for (QA-1516) Subtitles settings in PiP window and site-specific wrappers and (QA-1476) Add a policy for Fx update pinning.
  • No report will be sent for (QA-1515) Pin Firefox to taskbar on Win10/11 with the installer since the feature has not been uplifted yet to Beta 103
• Regression testing - round 1 (of 3) targeting core browser areas and tier 1 top sites testing signed off Green, round 2 is in currently in progress, alongisde antivirus testing
• Initial fix triage - completed, currently working on reducing the bug verification backlog

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Not much of an update this week. No features reported as challenged or at risk at this time
• Coming off a long weekend so the feature updates are a bit behind schedule. Expect to have status by end of week.

SUMO Report

• Desktop Forum Contributor Discussion Thread V102: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/715829?last=83816
• Support for PiP Subtitles on HBO Max confusion: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/vmmobb/firefox_1020_see_all_new_features_updates_and/ie2sdtb/
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1775509: looks like it included a wrapper for HBO Max with support for play/pause and volume but not subtitles yet. - resolved
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1681498: If the user did not previously have this setting turned on, they are protected from major data loss by disabling the default clearing of browsing/download/form/search history.
  • For most people this is not a problem that cache is cleared at shutdown. But we have seen some related mentions: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=3096922 and https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/vn68tr/firefox_is_unchecking_delete_cookies_and_site/
• Bug creating desktop shortcuts: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1774683
  • Fix approved for the dot release. - check the release notes channel.
• Seen some reports of Internet connection sharing causing Fx crashes or freezing
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/vh7rh9/ff_10101_crashing_constantly_on_w10/, https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/vmww7x/internet_connection_sharing_causes_firefox_to/, https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/vhabp1/firefox_freezes_often/

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)