Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-07-17

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays 10am and Thursdays at 8am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99951 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99951 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Release Coordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

Attendees

marcia, RyanVM, lizzard, philipp, Sebastian, jcristau, pascal, Tom, Ritu,tania, dveditz

Schedule Update

Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard

• beta 9 released for beta, dev ed
  • slight delay with mobile from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476282 , should be cleared up soon

   fennec shipped at 09:58am pt

Off-train releases

Current Shield studies: https://strategy-and-insights.mozilla.com/shield-studies/index.html

Stability

• Due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1290972#c17, we may see some strange Mac crashes in 62 and above.
  • spohl asked me to mention this

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 3.78

• Flash crashes are visible in nightly after the new version was released - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476008. Visible on the other branches as well
• Small volume Graphics regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476269
• Several new Audio/Video crash - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476248 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476272

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 3.41

• Shutdown crashes and hangs make up most of the Top #20 crashes. Nothing too new to report there
  • AsyncShutdownTimeout | profile-change-teardown | Extension shutdown crashes new in 62: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464938 - 9.5% of browser crashes
• Mac new signature in B8 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.c gi?id=1471504. I think they did some Skip List work and that could account for the new signature
• nsTArray_Impl<T>::ClearAndRetainStorage | mozilla::dom::MessagePort::CloseInternal: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1470306 - 0.8% of content crashes
  • new tab crashes in 62; under active investigation

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.70 https://data-missioncontrol.dev.mozaws.net/#/?channel=release

61.0.1:

• crash regressing since yesterday for russian users: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476319 - 3.8% of content crashes
• content crash with french webmail provider: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473892 - 2.3% of content crashes
• osx 10.9 content crashes still not reducing after disabling of omtp: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471892

third-party crashes in 60.1.0esr:

• Crash with EMET in [@ RegisteredThread::~RegisteredThread]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460736 - 5.7% of browser crashes
• Crash with Citrix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475936 - 4.8% of browser crashes
• Crash with Sophos in [@ walIndexTryHdr]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771138 - 2.8% of browser crashes

Mobile

• Crash rate is calculated based on usage hours (the time Firefox is actively used).
• Usage hours will be significantly lower on Fennec than on desktop Firefox, so we can't compare mobile rates to desktop rates.

• Release

fennec release summary score: 28.97

• • Filed new release crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476077. Correlated to API 26 and Samsung devices
  • #2 Top Crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468541, although intermittently reproducible, still has no traction
  • Local storage crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475218 seems to have increased on release

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 33.93

• • Nothing to call out for Fennec beta. Some smaller volume crashes that affect API 19

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 35.78

• • New Hardware Abstraction Layer crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476250
  • Nothing else new

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile Stability

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

• Presentation by Benjamin Wu, working on real-time database of crash signature statistics
  • Wow! link? can we try it? yes please :-)
• [marcia] Congrats to France on their World Cup victory

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/61-0-Post-Mortem