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Firefox 4 Beta 7

Firefox 3.6.11

Firefox 3.5.14

Blocker Report

A handy list of Firefox 4 triage queries is available:

• Beta 7: 19 blockers
• Beta: 486 blockers
• Final: 389 blockers
  • TOTAL: 875 blockers
  • nominations: 183 nominations
  • ready to land: 12 blockers ready

Firefox Development

(from our goals):

Firefox

• [AT RISK] Finish Firefox 4
  • 160 Firefox/Toolkit blockers

• [ON TRACK] API-Complete Jetpack
  • Joint with Jetpack team
  • Currently working towards feature-complete beta SDK

• [ON TRACK] Stand up basic Firefox with Electrolysis
  • Joint with Platform
  • UI may not be functional, should launch and open a web page.
  • Project tracking page

Developer Tools

• [NEW] Finish Firefox 4 developer tools
  • 15 blocking developer tools bugs

• [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

• Need to find owners for the high priority [Firefox/Projects/New_Theme/Timeline|unowned theme bugs]

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

Roundtable

• [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.