Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2006-07-12

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Meeting Details

• 11:00am PDT (18:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 216 2181 (or +1 303 228 0514)
• join irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

Agenda

• Gecko 1.9 Roundtable
• Firefox 3
• Any other business

Gecko 1.9 Roundtable

• Performance followup
  • Windows 30% perf win (thanks Stuart!)
  • Mark working on Linux -- pango problems
    • Should create patches for Pango
    • Will probably need to write a Xft fast-path
  • Mac has 15% performance regression just for Cocoa widgets; need to get handle on that first

• Performance testing
  • Most trunk perf loss is due to cairo (we think, need to be certain)
  • Might be able to get outside help to generate new modern pageset
  • How fast do we want? What is good enough?
    • There are edge cases (e.g. session restore of a large session)
    • No regressions is a hard limit

• gcc visibility issues
  • patch went in to gcc trunk, will become gcc 4.2
  • but that introduced a bunch of new issues
  • could get significant startup time benefits

• Reflow branch coming along
  • bz to fix form controls
  • builds usable, modulo form controls

Firefox 3

• Fx3 Goals
  • Sherman at Jury Duty, put off until next week

Any other business

• Supporting Vista: should we be building 2000/XP and Vista versions for Fx3? should we be leveraging the new User Access Control? (beltzner)
  • Take advantage of process separation (unprivileged by default, some tasks at higher priority)
  • Need someone to investigate -- dveditz maybe?
  • Auto-update needs to be tested with Vista and fixed if necessary
  • Someone needs to own "Firefox on Vista"