Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2025-08-28

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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

REMEMBER

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Attendees

RyanVM, dlucaci,aflorinescu, apetridean, gnichita, abodea, phorea, dmeehan, mboldan, cbadau, dsmith

Schedule Update

• 142
  • Desktop/Android Fenix/Focus 142.0.1 planned release live @ 100% rollout
    • Still awaiting feedback from the incident response
  • iOS Firefox 142.1 planned will go live on 2025-08-31 with a progressive rollout
  • Android planned dot release scheduled for next week if needed
    • will decide 2025-09-01,build and go-live on 2025-09-02 after QA sign-off
• 143
  • Desktop 143.0b6 gtb tomorrow @ 100% rollout
    • This is the final Early Beta build of the cycle
  • Android 143.0b6 gtb tomorrow @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% pending QA sign-off
  • iOS 143.0 branching off main tomorrow
    • Building both Firefox and Focus, still not entirely sure what the plan for Focus is though
    • Will likely need to respin eventually for iOS 26 launch, exact timing TBD still
  • Next week is the last week of Fx143 beta
• 144
  • No updates

Release Quality Metrics

• https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/277284167/Beta+Quality+Metrics
  • Unfixed sec bugs a bit higher than preferred
  • Going to follow up on the number of tab-related regressions still affecting 143 this cycle

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 0.86% - low, under investigation

Beta

crash incidence: 1.68%

Release

crash incidence: 0.89%

• frequent crash at null in [@ mozilla::RetainedDisplayListBuilder::PreProcessDisplayList]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1764863
  • patch in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1984898 , waiting to land

Mobile Stability

• Crash in [@ java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.webrtc.CameraCapturer.createSessionInternal(CameraCapturer.java)]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1985792
  • not a new signature

QA

Aurora / Dev Edition

[aflorinescu]

• Recurring testing
  • DevEd functional testing - completed - GREEN status. No concerns.

Beta

• Recurring testing
  • Functional testing → On track, no new bugs so far
  • Antivirus testing → On track, no new bugs so far
• New feature testing
  • Pre-release feature testing started → reports to be sent next week (Sept 3rd EOD)

Mobile

[apetridean]

• Android
  • Build Signoffs Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 143.0b3- status GREEN
    • Beta 143.0b4 - status GREEN
    • Beta 143.0b5 - status GREEN
    • Release 142.0.1 - status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-4282] Homepage Search Bar (Redesign) - Beta 143 - status GREEN
    • [QA-3998] Update Play Store Review Prompt – Beta 143 - sign-off status GREEN
    • [QA-4205] Homepage as a New Tab – Nightly 144 - sign-off status YELLOW
    • [QA-4278] Composable Toolbar - bugs verified, waiting for developers to implement in Beta 143
    • [QA-4186] Terms of Use bottom sheet - waiting for developers
    • [QA-4281] QA App Icon Picker - waiting for developers
    • [QA-4211] Unified Trust Panel Nightly 144 - Nightly 144 testing in progress
    • [QA-4289] Change the default engine in China to Bing - waiting for the task to be fixed
    • [QA-4074] Android Firefox -- Updates to Broken Site Reporter – waiting for developers
• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS 142.1 (60433) - Release Candidate - status [RED]
    • Firefox iOS 142.1 (60552) - Release Candidate 2 - status [GREEN]
  • Feature Testing
    • QA-4260 - Shake to summarize - RC testing finished, yellow status
    • QA-4384 - iOS 26 Glass Changes - full regression testing in progress

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Monday 2025-09-01 is a public holiday in several regions