Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-03-22

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

dmeehan, afischer, telin, dsmith, Aryx

Schedule Update

• 98
  • 98.0.2 build tomorrow, then release on Wednesday/Thursday
• 99
  • 99.0b7 gtb today
  • 99.0b8 is the final beta, gtb March 31
  • Next week is RC week
• 100
  • Fenix/Focus nightly builds were paused, should resume today

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.97% (-0.10pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 2.12 (-0.07)

• Linux Crash in [@ malloc | webrender_api::display_list::DisplayListBuilder::end]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1760847
  • affects Firefox 99+ but less crash reports for Beta than for Nightly

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 2.50% (-0.32pp), crash rate: 2.15 (-0.12)

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 1.14% (-0.71pp), crash rate: 1.37 (-0.09)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• Off-train sign offs are in progress (QA-1409 - Manually test a new Widevine Beta CDM (4.10.2449.0). No concerns until now.

Nightly

• Nightly 100 feature reports - in progress

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Beta 99 pre-release reports - in progress. No concerns until now.
• 3rd round of regression testing will start tomorrow, 23 March

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 99 (Beta)
  • All Features reported as On Track
• Firefox 100 (Nightly)
  • WASM: Exception Handling - Optimize representation of exception and tag objects (unboxing) slipped to Fx 100 due to the standards process. Need formal exemption to ship before it reaches Phase 4.

SUMO Report

• Desktop week 1 release report: https://mailchi.mp/mozilla/fx-desktop-v97-week-1-sumo-report-7894077
  • Infobar not displayed (on restart) when Firefox set default engine is removed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1759207
  • Yandex/Mail.ru search engine removal
  • Remove Download Modal = High inbound volume: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749998
• Mobile week 1 release report: https://mailchi.mp/mozilla.com/fx-mobile-v97-week-1-release-report-7894061

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)