Platform/2010-10-19

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 4 Beta 7

  • still waiting for GC compartments to land on the relbranch
    • compatibility issues with JetPack and Firebug
    • stability issues (see roundtable)
    • minor theme tweaks are being landed in both places

Firefox 3.6.11

Firefox 3.5.14

Blocker Report

A handy list of Firefox 4 triage queries is available:

Firefox Development

(from our goals):

Firefox

  • [ON TRACK] API-Complete Jetpack
    • Joint with Jetpack team
    • Currently working towards feature-complete beta SDK
  • [ON TRACK] Stand up basic Firefox with Electrolysis

Developer Tools

  • [NEW] Ensure that Firefox 4 ships with a compatible version of Firebug
  • [NEW] Publish a roadmap for integrated developer tools in Firefox, including console, inspection, and js debugging
  • [NEW] Develop long term plan for Skywriter maintenance/support

Platform

Breakdown of all 2.0 blocker and current assignments. Shows a lot of items in unassigned lists

There are about 31 crash bugs where the blocking status has changed since Oct 13th. We removed the dups.


There are about another 22 crash bugs in the nomination queue we would like to get triaged so we have a handle on all the blockers.

GFX

Layout

  • dbaron's CSS 2.1 testsuite results: [[1]]
    • Significantly better than Webkit and Opera, a little behind IE9
  • Blockers (including SVG and Widget)
    • 2 beta8 blockers
    • 35 betaN blockers
    • 96 final blockers
    • 14 requests need triage

Video/Audio

  • Blockers
    • 0 beta8 blockers
    • 2 betaN blockers
    • 10 final blockers

JS

  • ES5
    • Landings
      • strict this landed in TM, also in m-c, to be in b7 soon (bug strictThis
    • Current work
      • Making eval in strict mode not affect the variable set of the calling code (bug 514568)
      • Refactoring of eval code (bug 604504)

Tree Management

Roundtable

  • [blizzard] I need some XUL experts
  • [smooney] Problems with Stability of the Trunk - less stable then we were before.
    • 2010-10-17, 4500 crashes on the trunk with 31K active users
    • 2010-10-13, 1400 crashes on the trunk with 30K active users
    • With a similar user set, our crashes have increased by more than 3X.
    • More details at https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/Firefox4#Status.
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