Firefox/Meeting/05-Jul-2016

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    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel
  • "Firefox" Vidyo Room

Actions from last meeting

  • None

General Topics / Roundtable

(tips/tricks/FYI, productivity improvements, industry news)

  • Exclude your mozilla-build, source code and object directories from antivirus scans for potentially significant speed improvements
  • MXR is permanenly offline so use DXR or http://searchfox.org/ instead
  • Nightly-only Contextual Identities / Containers feature is enabled. Not riding the trains.
  • [timdream - readonly] Emoji One will ship with Firefox 50 (bug 1231701), supporting OSes w/o built-in Emoji font
  • [mconley] MozReview now allows you to delegate review requests
    • If you're not the right reviewer, you should have the ability to modify the reviewer list using the "pencil" icon in the commits table
  • [mconley] MozReview keyboard shortcuts help added to "Support" dropdown in the header

Friends of the Firefox team

(Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Introductions)

  • Resolved bugs (excluding employees): https://mzl.la/29kLVI0
  • More than one bug fixed:
    • Martin Giger [:freaktechnik]
    • [:Towkir] Ahmed

Project Updates

Add-ons

E10s

  • [mconley] All appears to be holding steady for a 48 controlled roll-out. Heartbeat study review will begin on July 8th
  • [mconley] After months in the Yellow "At Risk" category, we're finally Green on our status sheet: https://wiki.mozilla.org/E10s/Status/July1 (lots of goodies on that page, tried to get some highlights)
  • [mconley] Reminder that the e10s team is starting to dissolve. e10s bugs are now everybody's responsibility
    • But we're not disappearing. We're subject experts, and happy to consult / clean up our messes.


Firefox Core Engineering (+ team formerly known as "performance engineering")


Go Faster

Hello

  • Investigating reliability issues in connection quality
  • Hooked up Taskcluster to our github repo - we now run lint, unit tests & functional tests via docker images + taskcluster (currently alongside our Travis tests which don't run the functional tests).
    • meta bug: bug 1282762
    • Functional tests are written in Marionette, but looking at porting to selenium + geckodriver


Platform UI and other Platform Audibles


Privacy/Security

  • Working on implementing Control Center v2, some pieces already visible:
    • sharing animation on background tabs using webrtc devices (bug 1275262)
    • anchoring permission prompts to the identity block (bug 1267617) (landing soon)
  • Other pieces landing on the elm branch until we have a consistent mergeable state


Quality of Experience

  • Initial automigration work landed on larch project branch, will ship in a FF47 Funnelcake cmore is doing.
  • Session store knowledge accumulating for :mikedeboer, next: triage and new stuff.
  • Find toolbar 'whole word' mode landed on Nightly
  • Find toolbar modal highlighting pref-ed off
    • We have enough feedback for now
    • Working on bugs that were filed by many people - many thanks!!
    • Few awesome colleagues from Taipei (I think) are helping out fixing bugs!
  • Windows 8 and 10 start menu tiles now will have a larger icon and custom background color thanks to :ktbee and bug 1232679


Search

  • one-off buttons in the awesome bar going through reviews
  • the notification bar at the top of the awesome bar panel prompting to enable suggestions will now disappear after 3 days. Uplifted to 48.


Sync/FxA

  • "Send Tab to Device" from desktop to mobile is coming: bug 677372
  • UX for highlighting tabs received from mobile: bug 1244597
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