Platform/2012-09-25

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Notices / Schedule

• FF16 Beta 5 is going to build today!
  • Any approved & unlanded fixes need to go in ASAP
  • We'll be approving this morning, please land ASAP
  • ASAP
• Code freeze is this Friday, 9/28. Please take a look at your tracked bugs and let us know current status.
• FF16 Beta 6 (our final) will go to build on Monday, 8/1
• Release Day is 8/9

• Update your calendars for the modified release schedule, or just subscribe to our calendar (updated soon)

Firefox OS

• Everyone's focused on finishing feature work by 9/28, and identifying any remaining feature work so that it can be evaluated by drivers.
• Feature work on platform side that is known slipping are Payments+Identity, and various other smaller pieces within the platform.
• Post 9/28 plan being hammered out this week. Expect awesomeness of lockdown - blockers only and driver approvals for non-blocking bugs, etc.
• Blocker dashboard: http://people.mozilla.com/~dietrich/basecamp/
• All platform Basecamp blockers: http://j.mp/SPWjG2

Firefox Development

• Marco Bonardo refactored about:home to avoid startup issues and lead the way to removing its use of localStorage (bug 615785, bug 749477)
• Bellindira Castillo landed initial telemetry probes for tab switching speed: bug 753127
• Jared Wein landed perf improvements to the URL bar styling code (bug 781588). See also his blog post about the snappy work week
• Mark Hammond, Jared Wein, Felipe Gomes and Shane Caraveo landed a whole bunch of social fixes
• Matt N. did a great job writing hotfixes to warn 10.5 users and fix update bustage in Firefox 15 (bug 774509, bug 790096)
• Brian Bondy is hard at work getting Firefox ready for the Windows 8 release (Firefox 16 is the target there)
• Tim Taubert is making progress on landing new tab page preloading, which should help new tab responsiveness
• Tim Taubert landed lightweight themes image cropping bug, which should help address some slow startups caused by those

Firefox Developer Tools

Add-on SDK

• Shipped 1.10 last week, Wes wrote a great blog post about it
• Going to introduce a 1 week delay into our release cycle to sync with Firefox
• More blog posts about the new page-mod features coming in 1.11

Performance

• Snappy work week summaries from Taras and Jared

• Tim fixed part of Persona slowness and improved start-up by ~10% (bug 650968)
• Jeff improved final layers paint by 25x without hardware accelerated on Aero glass (bug 788794)

GFX

JS

Layout

• bugs of interest
  • support lengths again in matrix() for -moz-transform only (not transform) bug 774169
  • nsIFrame::List (debug-only method) now has optional subdocument traversal (bug 788202)
  • Make Azure canvas's drawWindow use Azure for content drawing when Azure-content is preffed on (bug 772726)
  • support for downloadable fonts in printing and print preview (bug 468568)

Media

• WebRTC components are being reviewed and landing in m-c (thanks for reviews!)
  • We expect to land preffed-off via an about:config pref

DOM

• Getting very close to having new bindings for a DOM element. (peterv, bz)

WebAPI

• driving towards B2G feature freeze
• working on support for tel:, sms:, and mailto: URI schemes
• finalizing clearing of private data plumbing for B2G
• most B2G app security model code landed or very close

Network

Identity

Plugins

Mobile

Accessibility

Tree Management

• Linux desktop builds (32 & 64-bit) now switched to centos6 builders. Many of these builds are now happening in AWS. Kudos to rail and jhopkins for getting this working!
  • Still fixing some minor fallout, including leak test hangs. Please file new bugs for problems and have them block bug 772446
  • Aiming to uplift these changes to 17 before beta1
• Need help diagnosing mochitest failures on XP! https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/yK796OIY-y0

Security

• Shumway SecReview tomorrow at 13:00 PST

Bugs needing info for security action

No results. 0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Stability Report

Socorro

• Some HBase problems (bad region) caused issues with data available on the website on Monday, this is fixed now.

Desktop

Flash

• New version of Flash pushed out to Windows users last week.
• https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/2012-09-24/2012-09-24.firefox.flash.11-4-402-278.html
  • Many more reports can be found here: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/0000.overview.html

15.0.1

• Crashes per ADU is still under 2% with over 90 million ADUs.

Trunk

• bug 793175 Firefox 18 spike in crashes @ gfxContext::PushClipsToDT while hovering over tab preview in Task Bar
• bug 793416 crash in gfxXlibNativeRenderer::Draw
• bug 792698 IonMonkey: crash in js::Vector<unsigned char, 32, js::SystemAllocPolicy>::growStorageBy

Aurora

Beta

• New bugs
  • bug 793475 crash in BeginMarkPhase @ zzz_AsmCodeRange_Begin
  • bug 794146 Firefox startup crash in nsUrlClassifierPrefixSet::StoreToFile
• Top crashes showing up in Explosive Report
  • bug 792903 crash in DrawingContext::CreateLinearGradientBrush mainly with Location Bar Enhancer
  • bug 793370 crash in nsWebShellWindow::Initialize

Mobile

Nightly :

• 9 out of top 10 are startup crashes
  • mostly due to bug 790139 has better symbols; freetype font issue.
  • others include bug 791519, bug 792825, bug 793136
• ion monkey bug : bug 791462 has a patch incoming.
• bug 786826 is actionable, but not a top crash.

Beta:

• Need to wait for ADU/Crashes to be more stable. Looks good so far.

Release :

• bug 756140 something we've talked about.

QA:

• Down at the bottom of the report we are seeing over 200 crashes in the nightly that have sigkills with address locations for nightly
  • ex: 1 2 ; see : starting from 87 down in the nightly report
  • Need to figure out how to make this actionable; maybe get a stack trace through minidump?
• bug 752828 looking at the patch from bug 741224, it might be helpful to get the API levels for the crashers?
  • Need STR from QA.

Monitoring:

• bug 745512 #6 on release, not shown in beta and above.
• bug 750217 to be monitored for next beta release.

See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes

• 15.0.1 Release top crashes
• 16.0b4 Beta top crashes
• Aurora top crashes
• Nightly top crashes

B2G

• Sending crash reports from devices should work in theory, but doesn't in practice, need to investigate. Noted in bug 773892 for now.
• Had a meeting on the crash reporting story in terms of UI and privacy on Friday, work now happening on what the UI should look like, implementation work needed. https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/issues/4149

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