Platform/2010-09-14

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Firefox 3.6.10 and 3.5.13

Firefox 3.6.11 and 3.5.14

Firefox 4 Beta

• inserting a beta 6 to fix two regressions from beta 5
• this means that what you thought of as "beta 6" is now "beta 7"
• this means that beta 7 is the feature freeze milestone
• this does not mean that we're altering the schedule, still aiming for code freeze tomorrow

Blocker Report

Firefox 4 Beta

Firefox Development

(from our goals):

• [ON TRACK] Feature complete Firefox 4
  • [DONE] Switch to Tab
  • [DONE] App Tabs - Scope for 4.0 reduced (non-global), near feature complete.
  • [DONE] Extension Manager - Bug list is converging, still a lot of work to do.
  • [DONE] Web Console
  • [ON TRACK] Notification UI - Geo and EM notifications done, http auth next.
  • [ON TRACK] New Theme - Windows and Mac good, Linux catching up now
  • [DONE] TabCandy Panorama
  • [AT RISK] Silent updates on Windows
  • [DROPPED] Inspector
  • [DROPPED] Account Manager - WIP patches posted, but we can't contain the review load and code risk.

• [AT RISK] Dirty profile startup within 20% of clean profile startup (modulo extensions, plugins; on windows)
  • Current status: Lots of data has been collected and analyzed, but no solid conclusions have shaken out.
  • Details page
  • Shawn has an updated blog post. Read it for more info.
  • Bugs on file that help:
    • Excessive cookie i/o bug bug 572223 (fixed)
    • Session Restore negatively impacts startup time based on the number of tabs loaded bug 582005
    • Suboptimal SQLite page size bug 416330 (fixed)
    • Provide a global VACUUM component bug 541373

Platform

(there is a team-by-team goals breakdown, as well)

• [DONE] Javascript performance near or even with Chrome 5 on their benchmarks (within 20% on SS, 30% on V8), with substantial wins on our benchmarks. (Windows, in-browser.)
• [DONE] Hardware acceleration of video and other HTML and SVG content, as well as user interface, on by default for compatible hardware on all Tier-1 desktop and mobile platforms.
• [DONE] Fully support the WebGL 1.0 spec, with support turned on by default in a Firefox 4 beta on platforms that support OpenGL or OpenGL ES.
• [MISSED] security: zero reproducible high/crit > 30 days
• [DONE] Support multi-process Fennec.
• [DONE] Support Jetpacks running in separate processes and never blocking the Fennec UI. NOTE: jetpack team hasn't actually integrated this code yet, but it works in small test environments.

Tree Management

• New record # checkins in August (2,707); 45% were on TryServer.
  • http://oduinn.com/blog/2010/09/09/infrastructure-load-for-august-2010/
• If you use TryServer, make sure to CHOOSE what exactly you want
  • do not waste cycles on "default" unless you know thats exactly what you want
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Build:TryChooser

• IT downtime this weekend; 650castro offline means tree closure

• Most of the new IX machines in production
• New data center nearly ready for use