Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-04-12

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

dsmith,jr johnson, Aryx, dmeehan, pascalc, dveditz

Schedule Update

• 99
  • Desktop 99.0.1 live at 25% rollout
  • Fenix/Focus 99.2.0 live at 25% rollout
  • We'll bump that to 100% tomorrow if all goes well
• 100
  • 100.0b4 @ 100% on April 10th, 2022
  • Fenix 100.0.beta4 & Focus 100.0.beta3 are live as of Apr 11, 2022
  • 100.0b5 is scheduled for today 04-12

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.06% (-0.12pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 2.08 (+0.10)

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 3.08% (+1.32pp), crash rate: 2.00 (-0.27) - increase from Linux issues on low volume

• coreaudio setup crashes
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1762563
  • assigned, waiting for patches

• [@ PLDHashTable::Search | mozilla::dom::BrowserParent::ActorDestroy]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696771
  • should be fixed in next beta build

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 1.04% (+0.21pp), crash rate: 1.27 (-0.06)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Beta 100 feature preliminary reports - in progress. Reports will be sent until tomorrow EOD. 
Beta 100 Antivirus testing - in progress. No concerns until now.
Beta 100 Tier 1 top sites testing - in progress.

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

• Error code shows up on the video. Seems to be Microsoft Store specific issue. The current workaround is to refresh the browser: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1763899
• Confusion around font change. Seem to be related to: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607913

    https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/tycl25/font_change_in_firefox_99/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/tz4qpp/firefox_990_not_rendering_numbers_font_properly/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/txxdkt/weirdly_styled_text_after_update_to_990_on_linux/

• Issue with hardware video decoding for windows users with newer intel drivers: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1762125 - Fixed with v99.0.1
• Android: Disable code caching: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1762619 - Fixed with Android V91.2.0

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)