Platform/2009-11-24

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• in QA, on track for mid-December release

Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7

• no schedule for either release yet, should have one by the end of the week
• tree should open in early December

Firefox 3.6 Beta

• beta user base is now over 450,000
• beta 3 refresh shipped last week
• component lockdown effects?

Firefox 3.6 RC

• late on RC freeze

Blocker Report

See more Firefox 3.6 related blocker queries, or learn about the new status and blocker flags

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 46 OPEN (-51 w/w)
  • 23 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-8 w/w)
  • 12 nominations (-21 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • 100 requests (-11 w/w)
  • 7 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-10 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

(Progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox)

• see our active projects and get involved / propose others
• Namoroka/mozilla-1.9.2 front end development:
  • 8 blockers left, 4 are crashkill
  • bug 520535 needs a patch
  • the other three need review (Neil Rashbrook is sick, Neil Deakin is out)
  • should be done in next 24 hours
  • keeping nomination list down with constant review, so far no major concerns other than late breaking Toolkit dependencies coming in from Fennec

GFX Update

• 2 blockers; one is waiting on review, the other is a mobile blocker (kerning) that has not seen traction yet.
• 2 noms; 1 might be build config related and if so should not block, the other has a reviewed patch and probably shouldn't block, but should be approved.
• Jonathan Kew's font enumeration Ts patch is looking good, and has passed review from John Daggett.
• And now, for the Direct2D in Firefox show, starring Bas Schouten!
  • Bas's blog post on Direct2D was featured in a cnet news article on Direct2D in Firefox.

Layout Update

• Blocker report
  • Several blockers added and fixed in the last week
  • 1 nomination (arrived 30 minutes ago)
  • 3 blockers with patches
  • 1 crashkill (not a hard blocker IMHO)
• Still evaluating crashes revealed by frame poisoning
  • Largest-volume crash fixed, probably fixes for one or two others
  • Most have no steps to reproduce, some seem inexplicable
  • Need a judgment call on remaining volume
• Video on N900
  • Theorarm decodes 100fps on "reasonably sized video", beating current DSP decoder (on speed if not power)
  • Plan on using GL for YUV decoding, not this quarter
  • Experiment with standalone player
  • Pulseaudio takes 10-15% of CPU!
• Instructions for setting up record and replay
  • Any particular test we should look at?
  • Need Windows loopback interface sniffing

JS

• Blockers:
  • Some fixed on TM tree, one test failure after m-c merge holding things up
  • Merging to 1.9.2 ongoing
  • Many new fuzzbug / QA bugs recently
  • JS team will meet to discuss each JS blocker at 2pm PST

Security

pending reviews

feature	review date	who	interested
Windows TSF integration (1.9.2)	unscheduled	Jim Chen, roc
DNS Prefetching	unscheduled	Patrick McManus	Jesse, bz, reed(?), ctalbert
New system metrics (and media queries)	unscheduled	?	dbaron

Top Security Bugs

Session Cookie Policies

• Lucas filed bug 530594 to propose that we forcibly expire session cookies after 7 days; we need feedback from people here and from web developers
• also wondering if we should have an explicit option to always expire session cookies whenever the browser quits, even if the user chooses to save tabs or if there is a restart for add-on or application install/update.
• Related bugs:
  • bug 529899 to have session restore not save session cookies if the user has set Firefox to expire all cookies on shutdown
  • bug 529644 is about rewording the "Save and Quit" dialog to explain that session cookies will be preserved

Tree Management

• Downtimes
  • Try server repo needs resetting. Aiming for next Tuesday (the 1st) during regular IT downtime. Will be down for around 1 hour.