Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-01-10

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, dsmith, telin, dmeehan, Aryx, JR Johnson, tracy, tania

Schedule Update

• 108
  • no dot release planned before 109 rolls out
  • Desktop 108.0.2 and Mobile 108.2.0 were rolled out to 100% last Friday
• 109
  • Desktop & Mobile RC1 builds are live on their respective channels
  • Will likely need to respin for at least bug 1808789, but a few other bugs are also on the radar
• 110
  • Soft code freeze starting this Thursday

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

• https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/91095119/Fx109+Status+Beta#Fx109(Status%3ABeta)-BetaQualityMetrics
  • We seem to have a new normal for page load metrics
  • A couple bugs on the radar for RC respin or dot release consideration, but nothing blocking the release

Desktop Stability

Nightly

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

• Frequent docshell crashes - fixed by backout
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1809003

Beta

crash incidence: % (pp), crash rate: ()

Release

crash incidence: % (pp), crash rate: ()

• Crash in [@ nsCOMPtr<T>::nsCOMPtr | nsTreeBodyFrame::GetExistingView]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1809492
  • signature change from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1806408 after attempt to fix it

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• Bug 1792796 remains a top crash, but inactionable it seems

Focus

QA

Nightly

• New features
  • [QA-1718] User-driven DLL blocking – Currently trending Yellow due to 1809158 (S2 specific to Windows ARM64)
  • [QA-1644] Picture-in-Picture Enhancements – Not landed yet
• Regression testing – Pre-merge regression testing starts this Thursday

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Build validation – 109.0 (RC1) in testing, no outstanding issues found so far (snap not available yet)
• Regression testing – Core regression testing (3 of 3) signed off Green, no outstanding issues found
• New features – Complete, all trending Green

ESR

• Build validation – 102.7 (RC1) in testing, no outstanding issues found so far

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 109 Beta

• Firefox 110 Nightly
  • Client-side Print Support for Gsuite (Orientation) slipped to Fx111 as the style system patch needed to be reworked
  • Remove all Colorway messaging from browser UI landed in Fx110 (was originally in the Fx109 forecast)
  • M4 - Cache the World Milestone 4 (Enable on Beta by Default) still planned to be enabled in Fx110 for Beta but it's Release plans will depend on experiment results.
  • Eliminating Spoofing Vector in HTTP Auth Prompts slipped to Fx111 as the patches are still in review.
  • Revision 1 Swipe-to-navigate for WinX/Mac/Linux (Size/Color) slipped to Fx111

SUMO Report

• DRM media playback for version running ARM based windows devices. Win 10 and Win11 seem to have been affected. 
• Spike in crashes on Firefox Focus/Klar for iOS: Should be resolved by V108.1 release

Roundtable & Special Topics

• QA team added QA Capacity details for current nightly/beta period on Mana (check QA Status Page)

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Jan 17th Fx108 Retro