Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2021-10-21

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• Riot #release-drivers for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768
• +17207072699,,536097768# US
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

Attendees

RyanVM, Pascal, csasca, atrif, tbabos, mlobontiu, ajoltan, lapahidean, tracy, abodea, tzsoldos,dsmith, Aryx, afischer, asoncutean, ljanos,

Schedule Update

• Desktop 94.0b9 gtb today, final beta before RC
• Fenix 94.0.0-beta.5 gtb today

• Next Friday (29-Oct) is a Mozilla wellness day

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.54% (+0.85pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.92 (-0.16)

• high crash incidence from storage crashes on Tuesday

mc1 crash rate: 4.34 crashes/1k usage hours (+0.85)

• updates not always getting applied - still ongoing
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1736373
  • many new crash signatures for macOS, likely from this bug because libraries are not in sync

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 1.68% (-0.08pp), crash rate: 2.35 (+0.05)

mc1 crash rate: 2.98 (-0.22)

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0..78% (-0.01pp), crash rate: 1.71 (+0.35)

mc1 crash rate: 1.57 (-0.25)

• AhnLab nzbrcomf32.dll startup crash with 32-bit Firefox in [@ _purecall | __crt_state_management::wrapped_invoke<T>]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1736624
  • AhnLab is working on a fix

Mobile Stability

Fenix

QA

Nightly

[ailea]

• 3rd round of regression testing - in progress
• Exploratory testing on MR2 - in progress
• Beta 94 Pre-Release sign-offs were sent yesterday.
  • [QA-1211] MacOS playback Power Consumption Improvements: QA is going through Nightly verification for fixed issues and smoke tests for enabling the feature on M1 devices.
• 3 last moment uplifts:
  • Session restore S1 issue - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730021 - considered for the last beta94 uplift.
  • Search telemetry uplift for last beta 94: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1732429
  • UX fix uplift for MR2 - New users don’t get interrupted when closing Firefox feature https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1733786

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

[lapahidean]

• Fenix RC 93.2.0 - signed off with status green
• Fenix 94.0.0 Beta 4 - signed off with status green
• Focus 94.0.0-beta 1 - signed off with status red
• Focus 94.0.0-beta 2 - signed off with status green

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• QA Monterey testing status
  • SV has been testing throughout macOS beta cycle
  • https://trello.com/c/hz2IL3Og/138-macos-12

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)