Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-11-29

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, dsmith, telin, RyanVM, JR Johnson, Aryx, tracy

Schedule Update

• 107
  • Desktop 107.0.1 live @ 25% rollout
  • Fenix/Focus 107.2.0 live @ 25% rollout
• 108
  • Desktop/DevEdition 108.0b7 & Fenix/Focus 108.0b5 shipped on 2022-11-27
  • Desktop/DevEdition 108.0b8 gtb today
    • Uplifts were done yesterday and testing was done early due to QA Holiday 
  • This is the last week of the Beta Cycle for 108
  • Tracking multiple tickets to be uplifted to b9
• 109
  • Focus 109 will switch to the monorepo at the start of the beta cycle

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.58% (-0.13pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 3.54 (+1.58) - newer builds back to normal

• Fixed: Crash with Orca sceenrreader in [@ mozilla::a11y::Accessible::IsOuterDoc]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1801907

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 1.31% (-0.30pp), crash rate: 2.05 (+0.07)

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.68% (-0.20pp), crash rate: 1.31 (+0.02)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• Dot Release 107.0.1-build1 - in progress. No new issues encountered.

Nightly

• QA-1572 - Turn on Windows Native Notification on release channel - code has not landed yet, but is expected to land this week, so QA is prepared to conduct a testing round on Dec 2
• QA-1646 - Datepicker Accessibility Improvements - code has not landed yet, but is expected to land this week, so QA is prepared to conduct a testing round on Dec 2
• QA-1667 - Opera/Opera GX/Vivaldi Migrators - CHALLENGED - Nightly 109 testing has been completed and it is trending [ YELLOW ] from a quality standpoint.

The full QA report for the Nightly 109 testing is available [here]. Note that Opera GX migrator was not tested since it has not landed in Nightly 109 yet.

• QA-1680 - FxView Recently Closed Tabs - Empty State - report sent with a Green status
• QA-1681 - FxView Disclosure arrow design - report sent with a Green status

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Beta 108.0b7-build1 MSIX validation was completed with a Green status.
• Beta 108.0b8-build1 - was tested with a treeherder build. No concerns.
• QA-1637 - Widevine CDM Version 4.10.2557.0 (Beta 108) - spot check in progress. No concerns.

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 108 Beta
  • Always Partitioning Storage slipped to Fx109 as there was an outstanding issue in 108. Team has resolved and enabled by default for 109.
  • CSS content-visibility removed from the forecast for now. Possible this could still land in Fx109 or Fx110. Will know more in the next week or so.
• Firefox 109 Nightly
  • Add Firefox shortcut to Windows menu as slipped to Fx110 as the team is still working through scope and planning
  • Add support for multistage spotlight to about:messagepreview updated to Fx110 as the reported Fx109 forecast was a mistake
  • Merge latest libwebrtc to mozilla-central reported as 'on track' for riding the trains with Fx109. No concerns.

SUMO Report

• A few initial complaints of 107 loading slow compared to 106: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/what-happened-to-the-latest-update-to-the-browser-for-desktops/m-p/19613
  • https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/latest-firefox-slow/m-p/19216

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Romania teams will be out on Nov 30 and Dec 1st, due to national holidays. 

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Tentatively targeting December 13th for 107 retro, an invite will follow next week