Firefox/Meeting/27-Aug-2013

Details

• Tuesdays - 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
• Handy local meeting time link

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 91337
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 91337
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 91337
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
• irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel
• "Firefox" Vidyo Room

General Topics

• [jaws] Updated the Get Involved page. It should be more useful now, but please add more information to it.

Friends of the Firefox team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

Project Updates

Thumbnailing

Foreground thumbnailing

• addressed by patch in bug 906615 (below): bug 809051 - Limit how often we thumbnail the page using the foreground service

Background thumbnailing

• landed, backed out due to test failure, investigating: bug 901294 - Unexpected downloading will be started by after every restart of the browser due to background thumbnailing
• landed: bug 908060 - Choose a better size for the background thumbnail service's browser
• discussion, patch-review cycle ongoing: bug 906615 - Background thumbnail service shouldn't overwrite existing thumbnails, or at least foreground thumbnails should be preferred
• work ongoing: bug 902439 - New Tab Page launches User Identification Request dialog before page is selected
• landed: bug 907350 - Intermittent browser_thumbnails_background.js failure
• filed: bug 908962 - Investigate using bypass-history and -cache load flags in background thumbnail browser
• filed: bug 908960 - Use a placeholder image when the background thumbnail service knows its thumbnail is bad

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 1 minute!

gavin

(gavin's Status Board)

paolo

(paolo's Status Board)

mak

(marco's Status Board)

enn

(Neil's Status Board)

felipe

(felipe's Status Board)

mano

(Mano's Status Board)

ttaubert

(Tim's Status Board)

adw

(Drew's Status Board)

markh

(Mark's Status Board)

smacleod

(Steven's Status Board)

dolske

(dolske's Status Board)

mconley

(Mike's Status Board)

mikedeboer

(Mike's Status Board)

gijs

(gijs' Status Board)

Unfocused

(Blair's Status Board)

MattN

(MattN's Status Board)

jaws

(jaws's Status Board)

mixedpuppy

(mixedpuppy's Status Board)