Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-11-09

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, apetridean, oardelean, mlobontiuroman, dbarladeanu, dpop, dsmith, mciure, tzsoldos, epopescu, bmaris, Aryx, asoncutean, atrif, pascalc, abodea,amoldovan

Schedule Update

• 119
  • Desktop 119.0.1 planned dot release live @ 100% rollout
  • Android Fenix/Focus/Klar 119.1.0 planned dot release rollout paused on 2023-11-08
    • Replaced with Fenix/Focus/Klar 119.1.1 on 2023-11-09 and live @ 25% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% on 2023-11-10 pending stability monitoring
  • Firefox iOS 119.2 planned dot release live with a phase rollout
  • There are no other dot releases on the radar before Fx120 go-live
• 120
  • Desktop/Android/iOS 120.0b8 rolled out 2023-11-08
  • Desktop/Android 120.0b9 gtb tomorrow
    • This is the last beta of the 120 cycle
  • Next week is RC week! Release day 2023-11-21
    • Planned dot release: 2023-12-05
• 121
  • Nightly 121 soft freeze starts next Thursday, November 16

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): 2.78%

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1863044 is fixed now, should support decreasing the number

• Crash in [@ HandleGLibMessage]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1860153
  • did not get submitted before - not new issue

Beta

crash incidence: 1.74%

Release

crash incidence: 0.74%

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

[bmaris]

• Nightly 121 top site web compat testing - in progress, no new issues
• Nightly 121 feature testing - in progress, reports will be sent tomorrow EOD

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[bmaris]

• Beta 120 functional testing (3 of 3) - in progress, no concerns, report will be sent tomorrow EOD
• Beta 120 exploratory testing - in progress, no concerns, report will be sent tomorrow EOD
• Beta 120 end-to-end testing - completed, status green
• Beta 120 feature pre-release testing - reports were sent yesterday with green status

Mobile

[dpop]

• Android
  • Build Signoffs
    • Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 120.0b6 - status GREEN
    • Beta 120.0b7 - status GREEN
    • Beta 120.0b8 - status GREEN
    • 119.1.0 - status GREEN
    • 119.1.1 - status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2133] Review checker on Amazon.fr, and Amazon.de - not started
    • [QA-2124] Simplified Nav & Data Clearance (Android) - Green sign-off sent for Beta 120 testing
    • [QA-2154] Feature QA for CBH @ Android - in progress
    • [QA-2171] Shopping Catch All for v121 given we don't yet know what exactly is prioritized for 121 yet [Android] - not started
    • [QA-1989] & [QA-1990] Fakespot Integration Shopping Experience - Green sign-off sent for Beta 120 testing
    • [QA-2152] Understand how using the Fx app and other browsers impacts data, battery and memory for users in Kenya - Green sign-off sent for 119.0.1

[dbarladeanu]

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS v119.2 (35843) [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS v120 (35772) - Beta 6 - [YELLOW]
    • Firefox iOS v120 (35805) - Beta 7 - [YELLOW]
    • Firefox iOS v120 (35899) - Beta 8 - [YELLOW]
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-1994] - Fakespot Integration - Mobile iOS Core Shopping bottom sheet - YELLOW status in beta
    • [QA-1995] - Fakespot Integration - Mobile iOS Shopping Discovery - YELLOW status in beta
    • [QA-2148] - Enhanced Cross-Platform Suggest [iOS] - Test-cases already created, waiting for implementation to be done
    • [QA-2125] - Simplified Nav: Private Window Visual Refresh (iOS) - Test cases creation in progress

Action items

Feature Status Review

• READ ONLY - Ping @telin with questions
• Firefox 120
  • No challenged or at risk features reported by their owners
  • Implement :has() pseudo-class CSS Selector slipped to Fx121
  • 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)
• 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 is now considered challenged (at risk last week) as the team is working to enable by default
  • Optimize, measure, and add tests for Speculative Connections experiment is being re-run in Fx121 beta as the previous experiment results (from 12% release population) has conflicting data
  • Implement TLS Certificate Compression has been delayed to Fx123 as additional code reviews are pending and there are competing priorities with the reviewer
  • lazy-loading for iframe is now in the forecast for Fx121!
  • Cookie Banner Handling on Android in Germany PBM

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Holiday tomorrow for Mozilla US and CA

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx119 retrospective planned for Tuesday 2023-11-21 08:00 - 08:45 PT