Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2024-09-05

Channel Meeting Details

• Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• 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

Attendees

Dbarladeanu, epopescu,Mira,pascalc, dpop, oardelean, ljanos, mchiorean, csasca, dmeehan, dlucaci, vtamas, Aryx, atrif, dsmith,apetridean,btot, mboldan,asoncutean,

Schedule Update

• 130
  • Desktop rolling out to 100% today
  • Android rolling out to 50% as we are still analysing stability data
• 131
  • Desktop/Android 131.0b2 live @ 50%
  • Firefox iOS 131.0b2 available to external testers
  • Desktop 131.0b3 gtb tomorrow @ 100% rollout
  • Android 131.0b1 is live but 131.0b2 is still in review in the playstore
  • Firefox iOS 131.0b3 gtb today
    • Available to external testers tomorrow pending QA sign-off
• 132
  • New cycle has started for Fx132

Release Quality Metrics

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

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): start of development cycle, not enough data

Beta

crash incidence: start of development cycle, not enough data

Release

crash incidence: start of development cycle, not enough data

• Windows crash in [@ mozilla::MediaChangeMonitor::DecodeFirstSample::<T>::operator()]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1916625
• Crash in [@ mio::sys::windows::named_pipe::read_done]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1916629
• Crashes with Apple's SpeechSynthesis framework's BabelFish class on stack
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1899823
  • Apple bug, 3rd most frequent crash, already affected Firefox 129, slightly decreasing frequency

Mobile Stability

• Crash in [@ mozilla::dom::ContentChild::~ContentChild]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1915788
  • under investigation, no reports it affects users

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Beta 131 smoke testing - in progress, no major issues found so far (1916397, 1916707)
• Beta 131 functional testing (W1) - in progress, no concerns so far
• Beta 131 top sites web compatibility testing - in progress, no concerns so far
• Beta 131 feature preliminary testing - started, reports will be sent next week (11 Sept)

Mobile

• Android
  • Build Signoffs Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 131.0b1 - status GREEN
    • Beta 131.0b2 - status GREEN

• • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2561] Back-button intervention feature testing - Nightly 131 testing in progress
    • [QA-2446] (Android) Improvements to navigating and editing the hierarchical file system for bookmarks - postponed to Fx132
    • [QA-2442] (Android) When a bookmark is created, the user can add it immediately to a new or an existing folder - postponed to Fx132
    • [QA-2510] QA for Android Menu Redesign's Tools and Save menus - testing in progress
    • [QA-2579] Remote-Settings - Shavar Deprecation - sign-off for Nightly 132 - status GREEN
    • [QA-2419] Android Microsurveys - Beta 131 testing in progress

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS 131 (44813) - Beta 1 - status [GREEN]
    • Focus iOS 131 (44812) - Beta 1 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 131 (44858) - Beta 2 - status [GREEN]

• • Feature Testing
    • QA-2324- iOS Toolbar Redesign - testing in progress
    • QA-2555 - Felt Privacy - Unified Panel - test case creation in progress
    • QA-2461 - iOS Address Autofill - Phase 2 - testing in progress

Action items

Feature Status Review (Read-Only)

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• ESR115 extended support until March for Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 users

Retrospective

• Fx129 retro https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_4GKMlbFop2kHAYQ9tzg7PJdaKobRCruglo9nzQTSw/edit#heading=h.2x9ye1c9tutp