Firefox/Meeting/09-Oct-2018

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(Mozilla Non-Confidential)

Instructions for Meeting Leader

After the meeting is done, you need to:

  1. Post these notes to the wiki.
  2. Clear this document for the next meeting leader

Instructions for non-Meeting Leaders

Reminder that a lot of this gets distilled for dissemination to a wider audience. Please be a good citizen and include links/bug numbers when applicable. (Makes life easier for at least mconley.)

Today’s meeting leader is: mikedeboer

General Topics / Roundtable

  • [mconley] MyQOnly (WebExtension that puts review count in the browser toolbar)
  • [mconley] In this recent bug, I made RemoteWebProgressManager transfer listeners between process flips
    • This means that nsIWebProgressListener’s attached to <xul:browser> will survive remote-to-remote process flips. But they’re lost as soon as they cross the remote-non-remote boundary.


Friends of the Firefox team

Introductions

  • No introductions this week.

Resolved bugs (excluding employees)

Project Updates

Activity Stream

  • No updates this week.

Add-ons / Web Extensions

  • Search engines are being converted to webextension style packaging (tracker bug)
  • about:addons is getting some visual tweaks.
  • Extensions can now create devtools sidebar panes.
  • Content scripts can now read from a <canvas> that they have modified.
  • Small fixes/improvements to the identity and menus APIs.

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Application Services (Sync / Firefox Accounts / Push)

  • No updates this week.

Browser Architecture

Developer Tools

Fission

Fluent

  • No updates this week.

Lint

NodeJS

  • No updates this week.

Performance

Policy Engine

  • Policy for Security Devices (PKCS #11) landed
  • Policy for DNS Over HTTPS being reviewed
  • Up Next:
    • Installing certificates
    • Browser Startup Page
    • Changing Locale
  • Plan is for all policy changes to be in by the end of the week

Privacy/Security

  • Firefox Monitor launched and is quickly approaching ~170k sign-ups after launch - Q3 goal was 10k.
  • A few decisions on Content Blocking in Firefox 63: FastBlock will not be exposed in Firefox 63, while Cookie Restrictions will ride the trains with 63, prefed-off by default (pref-on planned for 65). The new Content Blocking UI will ride the trains to release as well. All the final pref flips here.

Search and Navigation

Address Bar & Search
  • Bookmarked origins are now autofilled regardless of their visited status (bug 1493636)
  • Fixed autofill when only bookmarks should be suggested (bug 1489060)
  • Fixed a problem with highlighting search engine aliases in the Address Bar (bug 1491724)
  • Fixed a bug where scrolling in the search bar may change the current search engine (Bug 1496478)
Places
  • Reduced history I/O when the same page is refreshed by a call to location.hash and the page title doesn’t change (bug 1489503)

Test Pilot

  • No updates this week.

Web Payments

This week I learned

  • (from Mossop and Gijs) - If you need a true binary file, TextDecoder does NOT work. Use File.createFromNsIFile(certfile) and then a FileReader (reader.readAsBinaryString(file)) [mkaply]

Meeting Leader Rotation

Add your name below if you want to be in the rotation of leaders:

  • mconley
  • lina
  • johannh
  • MattN
  • RyanVM
  • felipe
  • mikedeboer
  • 6a68