Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2025-11-06

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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

REMEMBER

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Attendees

Dsmith, pascalc, Mira, csasca, abodea, ljanos, dmeehan, dbodea, cbadau, atrif, Aryx,epopescu, vtamas, phorea, tzsoldos,

Schedule Update

• 144
  • No dot release on the radar before Fx145 go-live
• 145
  • Desktop 145.0 RC1 live on beta @ 100% rollout
  • Android Fenix/Focus 145.0 live on play store @ 5% rollout
  • We are going to build a RC2 today (Desktop/Android/ESR) for a blocker bug filed today (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1998591)
  • iOS Firefox/Focus 145.0 will schedule to start a phased rollout at 03:00 UTC on 2025-11-09
  • Firefox iOS 145.1 branches and Firefox iOS 145.1 gtb tomorrow
  • Next week is Fx145 go-live on 2025-11-11
• 146
  • Nightly soft code freeze has started
    • String freeze starts tomorrow
  • Merge Day and 146.0b1 gtb next week on Monday 2025-11-10

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.56%

• frequent crash in [@ mozilla::LinkedListElement<T>::setPreviousUnsafe]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1998653
    • I pinged developer for fix or backout

Beta

crash incidence: 1.50%

Release

crash incidence: 0.97%

• low frequency Crash in [@ mozilla::net::CacheFileChunkBuffer::DataSize]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1998669

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• diagnostic assert Crash in [@ mozilla::net::HttpBaseChannel::DoApplyContentConversionsInternal]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1998674
  • also affects desktop but less frequently

QA

Nightly

• Recurring testing
  • Nightly pre-merge smoke testing → On track, no new bugs so far
  • Nightly regression search testing → On track, no new bugs so far

Mobile

[ljanos]

• Android
  • Build Signoffs Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 145.0b9 - status GREEN
    • RC 145.0 - status GREEN

• • Feature Testing
    • [QA-4593] Perplexity - Search Engine Addition - Beta 145 - GREEN sign-off
    • [QA-4180] Android Address Sync – Nightly 146 - GREEN sign-off
    • [QA-4470] Android Firefox - Updates to Broken Site Reporter – Nightly 146 – status GREEN
    • [QA-4410] Android Toolbar Redesign – Beta 145 – status GREEN
    • [QA-2799] CC Autofill – Beta 145 - in progress

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS 145 (63787) - Release Candidate 2- status [GREEN]
    • Firefox Focus iOS 145 (63677) - Release Candidate 1 - status [GREEN]

• • Feature Testing
    • [QA-4569] Translations - test case creation in progress
    • [QA-4570] Japan onboarding - nightly testing in progress
    • [QA-4571] Perplexity - Search Engine Addition - nightly testing retesting in progress

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Tuesday, 2025-11-11 is a public holiday in several regions