Electrolysis/Meetings/2014-09-25

mossop

Landed bug 999239, now forces all browser to be in the correct process. Fixes an M3 and M4 bug
Moving onto M3 bug 1068412 for sending resource substitutions to the child process

bug 1071709 (pdf.js landings caused session restore talos regression) - fixes landed
bug 1068189 (disable autostart behavior on aurora, beta, release) - landed on mc, waiting on 1063848.
bug 1063848 (Disable e10s in safe mode) - uplifted to aurora, just got beta approval. should land shortly on beta.
bug 1072417 (remove browser.tabs.remote) - wips posted, try push, updated per comments from felipe.
bug 698371 (thumbnails) - wips posted, PageThumbs updated along with various callers. still doing some testing.
- Broke drag and drop related callers out to bug 863512 (m4), which is blocked by drag and drop bug 936092 (m4).
bug 1069471 (enable moar tests in automation) - recent holly push didn't look pretty. haven't done any work on this this week.

picked up m3 1067350 [e10s] hash tag makes text in tweet 'invisible' with Adblock Plus installed
continued shims investigation this week
- no new potential shims found, considering switching to outreach, see round table.

bug 1071203 - Log when e10s is force-disabled: posted patch earlier this week, finishing updating it from review comments
bug 1053456 - "Add cert exception" - found root cause of the bug, will now wait on dkeeler's feedback. There's an ugly-ish workaround available
Reviewing Blake's spellchecker patches
Reviewd bug 999239 for Mossop
investigated tooltip interfering with dropdowns, bug 1010732 - no big conclusion there

Bug 899347 - Make click-to-play work in e10s
- Now working!
- Fallout: Bug 1070053 - Notification to allow plugins on the next page
  - Fixed
- Fallout: Bug 1069075 - Intermittent browser_CTP_data_urls.js | Test 3a, Waited too long for plugin to activate | Test 3c, Plugin should be activated
  - RyanVM is leaning on me to fix this because it's pretty frequent. bug 899347 introduced some race conditions. I have a patch, but it's causing me to re-jig some tests. Almost done.
Bug 1070096 - Collect no SessionStore information for about:tabcrashed pages
- Necessary for restoring crashed tabs from SessionStore.
- Went back and forth with ttaubert with a few approaches. The latest one he seemed happy with in IRC. Currently up for review.
Bug 913651 - UX for the e10s "tab crashed" page on Desktop
- Talked with mmaslaney about this today
- He has a spec: FX-e10s-v2.png
Bunch of reviews.

Shims investigation
- I think we should end this investigation in favor of white glove outreach
  - we've invested heavily in it and have yet to turn up another shim candidate
    - there is no magic bullet function for these addons
  - further work is hand debugging/ reverse engineering more addons
White glove outreach to top 25 addon authors
- - working with addon authors to help them vs. custom shim code we'll have to rip out later - former seems better long term.
  - Reach out directly, tell them why they're important, and offer them direct access to e10s team
  - I will act as point of contact / take lead on this
  - Frees me to work on other milestone bugs in between helping the special group of addon authors
Data
- 6/top 10 work, 1/10 EOL, 2(3)/10 broken
  - 15/top 25 work, 1 EOL
  - 4/25 not shimmable (author is in general giant refactor, cpp, sdk addon, blocked on ipc patch etc)
    - Ghostery(#17)
    - noScript(#11)
    - LastPass(dogfood favorite)
    - Flashblock (#22, now working)
- Authors we are actively working with
  - avast (#2, #6)
  - GreaseMonkey (#14)
  - LastPass (dogfooder favorite)
- Authors not yet active on our bugs(do they even know there is a problem?)
  - Video DownloadHelper (#7)
  - Flash Video Downloader (#15)
  - Web of Trust (#16)
  - 1Password (dogfood favorite and not on amo)
- tracking sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FVgFF3LecJRWeb3dz-ycUwgaUlPnyM2OkPGp56ZopPg/edit?usp=sharing