Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-11-02

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

telin (read only), dmeehan, dsmith, RyanVM, oardelean, asoncutean, epopescu, phorea, tzsoldos, pascalc,mchiorean, mboldan, atrif, dbarladeanu

Schedule Update

• 119
  • So far no driver for an unplanned dot release
  • Android Fenix/Focus planned release 119.0.1 live @ 100% rollout
  • Desktop and Mobile planned dot release scheduled for Tuesday 2023-11-07
    • gtb on Monday 2023-11-06
    • Please ensure all uplift requests are submitted by EOD Friday 2023-11-03
• 120
  • Desktop/Android 120.0b5 live on 2023-11-01
  • iOS 120.0 b5 got a green QA sign off and was distributed to external beta testers
  • Desktop/Android 120.0b6 gtb 2023-11-03
    • iOS 120.0b6 builds on 2023-11-02
  • End of Early beta is 2023-11-03 (tomorrow)
• 121
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Thursdays)

• https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/277284167/Beta+Quality+Metrics

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.71% - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1709600 is still open - Timeouts in mozilla::layers::LockD3DTexture<T>

Beta

crash incidence: 2.18% - still elevated

Release

crash incidence: 0.66%

• Crash in [@ mozilla::dom::TypedArray_base<T>::ProcessFixedData<T>]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1856672
  • needs work

• Crash in [@ style::values::computed::length_percentage::CalcLengthPercentage::resolve]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1862662
  • has also affected previous recent release, got more frequent with v118, decided to have developer investigate it

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

[Anca]

• Nightly 121 WebRTC testing - in progress, no new issues found

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[Anca]

• Beta 120 functional testing (2 of 3) - in progress, no concerns
• Beta 120 antivirus testing - in progress, no concerns
• Beta 120 feature pre-release testing - started today, reports will be sent next week (November 8th)

Mobile

• Android [read-only]
  • Build Signoffs
    • Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 120.0b3 - status GREEN
    • Beta 120.0b4 - status GREEN
    • Beta 120.0b5 - status GREEN
    • RC 119.0.1- status GREEN

• • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2104] New Android package for Fenix: Android App Bundles - Green sign-off sent for Nightly 121
    • [QA-2133] Review checker on Amazon.fr, and Amazon.de - not started
    • [QA-2146] Cross Platform Enhanced Suggest - Green sign-off sent for Nightly 121
    • [QA-2153] Passkeys through Google Password Manager on Android - Yellow sign-off sent for Nightly 121
    • [QA-2124] Simplified Nav & Data Clearance (Android) - Beta testing in progress
    • [QA-2154] Feature QA for CBH @ Android - not started
    • [QA-2171] Shopping Catch All for v121 given we don't yet know what exactly is prioritized for 121 yet [Android] - not started

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS v120 (35559) - Beta 3 - Yellow
    • Firefox iOS v120 (35616) - Beta 4 - Yellow
    • Firefox iOS v120 (35673) - Beta 5 - Green

• • Feature Testing
    • QA-1994 - Fakespot Integration - Mobile iOS status Yellow on Beta.
    • QA 2148 - Enhanced Cross-Platform Suggest [iOS] In Progress
    • QA-2125Simplified Nav: Private Window Visual Refresh (iOS) In Progress

Action items

Feature Status Review

(read only) - Ping @telin if you have questions

• Firefox 120
  • No challenged or at risk features reported by their owners
  • Launching a small Android Fakespot experiment in Beta 120 this week. Android and iOS are still on track for the big Fakespot experiment in 120 Release.
  • Android extensions GA (General Availability = allowing users to install any extensions marked as Android-compatible by extension developers). GA launch plan
• Firefox 121
  • Fundamentals Enhancements: Browser Interaction Speed Perception/Responsiveness [Speed v1] is currently challenged as the engineering resourcing for this project has been deprioritized. Team is aware of the Nightly QA deadline of Nov 3rd.
  • Start parent-initiated navigation from parent process directly considered at risk for Fx121 as the team is working through how to interpret some recent profile data
  • Cookie Banner Handling on Android in Germany PBM in Fx121
  • Website Translations in Android riding the trains in Fx121
  • Support for :has is riding Fx121 to Release (this is a very frequently-requested web platform feature)

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)