Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-11-30

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

dmeehan, dsmith, RyanVM, Pascal, Aryx

Schedule Update

• 120
  • Desktop 120.0.1 dot release live at 25%
  • Android 120.1.0 is being prepped, building tomorrow for Monday signoff
  • iOS 120.3 is live in a phased rollout
  • There will be no desktop planned dot release on December 5th
• 121
  • Desktop 121.0b5 live @ 100% rollout, b6 gtb tomorrow
    • Last early beta build
  • Fenix/Focus/Klar for Android 121.0b5 live @ 99% rollout, b6 gtb tomorrow
    • Will bump this rollout to 100% prior to shipping b6 irrespective of QA status
  • Firefox iOS 121.0b5 available to external testers (signed off by QA yesterday), b6 gtb today
    • Will likely push b6 to external testers with just automated testing results, need to confirm with iOS team today
• 122
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Thursdays)

• https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/277284167/Beta+Quality+Metrics
  • No major concerns with quality metrics, though still a number of fixes needing to land & uplift prior to RC

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.98% (-1.54pp compared to previous week)

Beta

crash incidence: 1.86% (+0.73pp)

Release

crash incidence: 0.79% (-0.29pp)

• [Wayland/Sway] Firefox and Thunderbird sometimes crash with "Lost connection to Wayland compositor."
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144
  • under investigation what kind of work is needed

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

• Android
  • Build Signoffs
  • Feature Testing

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
  • Feature Testing

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 121 [Beta]
  • Record a new extraKey in pictureinpicture.opened_method event when user opens PiP if they have seen the first-time callout in the last 48 hours slipped to Fx122 as the work wasn’t quite ready before soft code freeze
  • Allow users to Highlight & Comment on PDF slipped to Fx122 but may shift further to Fx123
  • Cookie Banner Handling on Android in Germany PBM.
  • iPad support for Fakespot

• Firefox 122 [Nightly]
  • Fundamentals Enhancements: Browser Interaction Speed Perception/Responsiveness [Speed v1] remains challenged as the engineering resourcing for this project has been deprioritized.
  • Android and iOS are preparing for a Fakespot ads experiment, gated on the results of Desktop’s ads experiment in 120.

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)