Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-09-13

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

RyanVM, dmeehan, bittin, Aryx, Pascal, JR, Tracy, telin

Schedule Update

• 104
  • no planned dot release
• 105
  • Firefox Desktop 105.0 RC1 live on Beta @ 100% rollout
  • Fenix/Focus 105.1.0 RC1 live on Production @ 5% rollout
    • Waiting to upload to Samsung Store until 104.2.0 gets out of certification
  • Firefox ESR 102.3.0 ready for testing
    • Reminder: No more ESR91 builds as it is now EOL
    • QA has been asked to do some ESR68->ESR102 and ESR78->ESR102 spot checks as well since there are no watershed rules preventing these upgrades from happening
• 106
• Soft code Freeze starts on Thursday until the merge and version bump to 107 next Monday

• Friday is a Mozilla wellness day

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

• RC1 rollout is too early for useful MC2 crash metrics, no obvious spikes in Socorro
• Nothing else concerning to call out this week

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.58% (pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.79 ()

• Crash in [@ mozilla::dom::workerinternals::loader::WorkerScriptLoader::DispatchMaybeMoveToLoadedList]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1786571
  • still active, asuth investigating

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: - no crash metrics this week because of MissionControl v2 issues

• investigating [@ mozilla::dom::syncedcontext::Transaction<T>::Commit]
  • got frequent/uptick for 104 and 105
  • https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/signature/?product=Firefox&signature=mozilla%3A%3Adom%3A%3Asyncedcontext%3A%3ATransaction%3CT%3E%3A%3ACommit&date=%3E%3D2022-06-13T16%3A57%3A00.000Z&date=%3C2022-09-13T16%3A57%3A00.000Z
  • Pinged in bug 1785115 about recent spike and got redirected to bug 1790203
    • Fix uplifted to 105.0 RC1 and no crashes reported yet from those builds

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.68% (-0.01pp), crash rate: 1.85 (-0.02)

• Crash with Avast in [@ MessageLoop::PostTask | mozilla::camera::CamerasParent::DispatchToVideoCaptureThread]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1790160
  • Avast person needinfoed

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• RC1 102.3esr-build1 testing in progress. No concerns until now.

Nightly

• Nightly 106 accessibility testing in progress. 7 new bugs found so far, including on S2 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1790573
  • New bugs - https://tinyurl.com/3yf257c3

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• RC1 105.0-build1 testing in progress. No concerns until now.

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 105 Beta
  • No challenged or at risk features called out. Continues to be a quiet Release.
• Firefox 106 Nightly
  • Windows Desktop notification and the Onboarding work planned for the Major Release are now dev complete.
  • MR Bug fixes and polish expected to conlcude by the end of this week
  • No challenged or at risk features called out.

SUMO Report

• Android: Awesomebar autocomplete does not use history results: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/26687 [Status: Closed fix verified ](25 reports over Forum/Social)
• Android: When switching tabs, newly active tabs always reload: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731 [Status: Open] (8 reports over Forum/Social)
• iOS: Moving rows inside the mobile folder places the bookmarks at the wrong position: https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/FXIOS-4889 [Status: Closed fix verified](23 reports ove Forum/Social)
• iOS: App crashes when adding a new custom search engine: https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/FXIOS-4491 [Status: Open P2 bug] (22 reports over Forum/Social)
• Desktop: Certain Youtube videos freeze without playing: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1788557 (see also: bug1782322 )[Status: Open] (9 reports over Forum + large Reddit thread)
  • about:config solution in use: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/wwnxtu/comment/ilmjfk5/
• Facebook Container: Dark mode broken on element and potentially other websites: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1789822 [Status: Closed fix verified] (10+ reports over the Forum)

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• fx104 retro is next week: Sept 20th