Firefox/Planning/2014-08-06

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Planning Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
  • Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
  • Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
  • irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
  • (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

  • Firefox 32
    • Desktop beta4 shipped yesterday, beta5 ships Friday
    • Mobile beta4 ships today

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Summary of Work In Progress

  • You can find the most recently completed iteration performance report here
  • You can see the status of the current iteration in progress here

Uplifts

Beta (125)
  • Update the icons in the context menu to have the correct size, HiDPI, and inverted variants ( Bug 1016405 )
  • The New Tab Page should be smarter about showing more tiles when on large screens ( Bug 1026561 )
  • allow snippets in about:home to highlight sync in the firefox menu ( Bug 1035586 )
  • Unable to close tab after slow script warning at chrome://browser/content/tabbrowser.xml:1989 ( Bug 1041788 )
  • Disabled icons in context menu are invisible if hovered in High Contrast White theme ( Bug 1041969 )
  • Page should be drawn in accordance with the high contrast themes ( Bug 1042625 )
  • White list about:home for Firefox Accounts landing page ( Bug 1043505 )
  • Empty language to translate to drop down on localized builds ( Bug 1046142 )
Aurora (54)
  • mac: killing plugin-container with SIGABRT doesn't trigger the crash reporter ( Bug 1012912 )
  • Intermittent browser_946320_tabs_from_other_computers.js | Uncaught exception - Subview (PanelUI-history) did not show within 20 seconds. ( Bug 1027181 )
  • Make the 'Translations by' string localizable ( Bug 1032139 )
  • allow snippets in about:home to highlight sync in the firefox menu ( Bug 1035586 )
  • remove existing webrtc indicator in the browser toolbar ( Bug 1037415 )
  • Trigger explicit OpenH264 updates from OpenH264Provider ( Bug 1039226 )
  • Changing the URL in a pinned tab opens new tab instead ( Bug 1039904 )
  • Non-functional "preference" button for Open H264 plugin (depending on state) ( Bug 1040941 )
  • Investigate repeated & redundant GMPInstallManager log lines ( Bug 1041181 )
  • GMPChild should finish IPC setup before calling Crashreporter IPC method ( Bug 1041226 )
  • Possible deadlock in Crashreporter::OOPInit() from GMP plugin initialization ( Bug 1041525 )
  • handle dragging the global webrtc sharing indicator ( Bug 1041663 )
  • Fix positioning of the global webrtc sharing indicator if there are multiple screens ( Bug 1041667 )
  • show hidpi icons in the mac global webrtc sharing indicator ( Bug 1041685 )
  • replace place holder screensharing icons with final icons ( Bug 1041687 )
  • Unable to close tab after slow script warning at chrome://browser/content/tabbrowser.xml:1989 ( Bug 1041788 )
  • Disabled icons in context menu are invisible if hovered in High Contrast White theme ( Bug 1041969 )
  • Visual issues with the global indicator for screen/device sharing ( Bug 1042163 )
  • Page should be drawn in accordance with the high contrast themes ( Bug 1042625 )
  • White list about:home for Firefox Accounts landing page ( Bug 1043505 )
  • OpenH264 crash reporting notification not shown ( Bug 1043531 )
  • Crash reporter notification cuts off OpenH264 plugin name ( Bug 1045500 )
  • Empty language to translate to drop down on localized builds ( Bug 1046142 )

Summary of Recent Landings

  • Team landed 54 bugs over the last week, for a total of 92 for the 34.1 iteration.
  • Details of landings from the past week can be seen here

UX (Madhava)

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Work In Progress

  • Search activity: Enabled in Nightly! Try it out. See blog post for some details.
  • Tablet refresh: Good progress on the tab strip implementation (screenshot). Initial patches submitted for review.
    • bug 1046200 - Create BrowserApp.isNewTablet()
    • bug 1046212 - Rename tabspanel to tabsui
    • bug 1047561 - Create settings UI for enabling the new tablet UI
    • bug 1048575 - Disable dynamic toolbar when in new tablet UI
    • bug 1048865 - Sync with upstream TwoWayView
    • bug 1048903 - Change TabCounter to take layout id as an attribute
    • bug 1048907 - Cast tabs button to ThemedImageButton instead of ShapedButton
  • Janus https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Janus
    • Janus Proxy - Cache improvements
    • UI improvements/fixes to addon

You can find more on upcoming feature plans in the[roadmap]

Uplifts from the past week

Beta (125)
  • Video controls are displayed in the middle of the video ( Bug 1005031 )
  • Regression: lost the ability to set and or remove an existing master password ( Bug 1042657 )
  • Reader mode (ambient light detection) prevents device from sleeping (holds CPU wakelock) ( Bug 1043920 )
  • Add architecture to logged library load errors ( Bug 1046369 )
Aurora (54)
  • No need to removeObserver in Snippets ( Bug 1042502 )
  • Regression: lost the ability to set and or remove an existing master password ( Bug 1042657 )
  • Tweak Browser:Quit to maintain existing support for add-ons ( Bug 1043539 )
  • Reader mode (ambient light detection) prevents device from sleeping (holds CPU wakelock) ( Bug 1043920 )
  • Add architecture to logged library load errors ( Bug 1046369 )

Landings from the past week

Nightly (126)
  • Enable search activity in Nightly builds ( Bug 992963 )
  • ButtonToast doesn't do anything with duration parameter ( Bug 1018417 )
  • Auto-selecting a phone number does not stop at element breaks ( Bug 1023418 )
  • Fail to launch webapp with TypeError: navigator.mozApps is undefined ( Bug 1035867 )
  • support tab casting to chromecast ( Bug 1037015 )
  • Regression: lost the ability to set and or remove an existing master password ( Bug 1042657 )
  • Reader mode (ambient light detection) prevents device from sleeping (holds CPU wakelock) ( Bug 1043920 )
  • Add architecture to logged library load errors ( Bug 1046369 )

UX (Ian)

Developer Tools (Jeff/Rob/Dave)

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

Mobile

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team (Kev)

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction (Arcadio)

Questions, Comments, FYI