Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2024-05-23

Channel Meeting Details

• Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• 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

Attendees

Dmeehan, RyanVM, csasca, apetridean, dlucaci, atrif, dbarladeanu, oardelean, bhidecuti, btot,

Schedule Update

• 126
  • iOS Firefox 126.1 planned release live at full rollout
  • There is currently no driver for an unplanned dot release
  • Desktop/Android/iOS planned dot release scheduled for next week
    • Firefox iOS gtb on 2024-05-24, Desktop/Android gtb on 2024-05-27, go-live on 2024-05-28 after QA sign-off
• 127
  • Desktop 127.0b6 gtb tomorrow @ 100% rollout
    • This is the final Early Beta build of the cycle
  • Android 127.0b6 gtb tomorrow @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% pending QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 127.0b6 gtb today
    • Available to external testers tomorrow pending QA sign-off
  • Next week is the last week of Fx127 beta
• 128
  • No updates this week.
  • Still trying to improve Google Play review lag

Release Quality Metrics

• https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/277284167/Beta+Quality+Metrics

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.65% (pp compared to previous week)

Beta

crash incidence: 1.33% (pp)

Release

crash incidence: 0.54% (-0.43pp) - lower than usual at this point in the cycle

Mobile Stability

• Fix for arm32 topcrash bug 1897635 now available in the Play Store
• Crash in [@ nsWrapperCache::GetWrapperMaybeDead] fromCanvasRenderingContext2D_Binding::getTransform
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1897201

QA

Nightly

• WebRTC testing in progress. No new issues encountered so far.

Aurora / Dev Edition

• [Fx127] DevEd functional testing completed. No new issues found.

Beta

• Beta 127 - 2nd round of functional testing in progress. No concerns.
• Beta 127 antivirus testing in progress. No concerns.
• Beta 127 new feature pre-release testing in progress. Reports will be sent until May 29, eod.

Mobile

• Android
  • Build Signoffs
    • Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 127.0b3 - status GREEN
    • Beta 127.0b4 - status GREEN
    • Beta 127.0b5 - status GREEN

• • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2417] - Test Firefox Android's large screen support using Google's large screen compatibility checklist - in progress
    • [QA-2426] - Upgrading of <img>, <audio>, <video> from HTTP to HTTPS on HTTPS-pages - Beta preliminary testing - status GREEN
    • [QA-2258] Android Toolbar Redesign - in progress
    • [QA-2391] TextInput event feature testing (regression prevention) - in progress
    • [QA-2439] Users should be able to create and use passkeys from arbitrary passkey providers on Android - test cases writing - in progress
    • [QA-2414] Website Translations for Fenix on Android (wave 2): Global Settings and Bug Fixes - testing in Beta 127 - status GREEN

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS 126.1 (41973) - Dot Release 1 - status [YELLOW]
    • Focus iOS 126.1 (41979) - Dot Release 1 - status [RED]
    • Firefox iOS 127 (42000) - Beta 4 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 127 (42083) - Beta 5 - status [GREEN]

• • Feature Testing
    • QA-2324 - iOS Toolbar Redesign - test case creation finished
    • QA-2441 - iPad Multiwindows - test case creation in progress

Action items

Feature Status Review (Read-Only)

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• UK and US public holiday on Monday 2024-05-27
• FYI: Android betas have long review time, about 30h

Retrospective

• Fx126 retrospective scheduled for 2024-06-18
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CT3XahD0ryq9vTAxS6Fbn7ta_slDFgTCaOYA96U1ApE/edit#heading=h.2x9ye1c9tutp