Firefox/Meeting/15-Sep-2015

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General Topics / Roundtable

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

  • Dolske is doing some jar.mn cleanup (for shared theme resources and paths in the files)
  • Can someone give an overview of the plan for the fall/autumn "main" release in desktop-land?
    • PB 2.0 with tracking protection is the main area of focus. e10s got postponed from 42.
  • Do we know what will be in the next *major* release? I mean post-42, the one that will come in the Spring?
    • ACTION: Invite Nick Nguyen to talk about this next meeting
  • bsmedberg is working on a new hire onboarding plan where various "teachers" from the company will teach new hires about a topic for a half day

Friends of the Firefox team

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

  • New hires!
    • Chris Rafuse
    • David Critchley
  • Resolved bugs (excluding employees): http://mzl.la/1EZy6vR
    • More than one bug fixed:
      • Nikhil Gupta
  • arni2033 has been filing bugs at a rather astonishing rate - 85 in the last 2 weeks!

Project Updates

e10s

Go Faster

  • Updating system add-ons landing soon, probably not enabled until Firefox 44

Hello

  • Large chunks of desktop visual refresh landed, should land key bits before 43 uplifts.

Privacy/Security

Search

  • Search suggestions in awesomebar riding trains in 43
  • Experimenting with contextual search prototype sidebar and the search box UI

Windows 10

  • Continuing work on last Edge migrators, telemetry for migrators, and theme polish.
  • Sheila posted a great summary of the work that's been going on over the last cycle:
    • Data Importers - we were able to get some but not all importers in for 41.
      • (41) - Import bookmarks / favorites from Microsoft Edge - bug 1192032
      • (41) - Import cookies from Microsoft Edge - bug 1192036
      • (42) - Import reading list - bug 1193387 - Landing in nightly but will likely uplift to 42 only.
      • (42) Import passwords - review is in progress but it's too late to uplift - bug 1192035
      • (?) Import history from Microsoft Edge - still working on this one.
      • (?) Import homepage from MS Edge - still working on this as well.
    • Telemetry/measurements - we have a bunch of stats we want to gather over the next set of releases.
      • (41) - Implement metrics for OS search query parsing - bug 1177246
      • (41) - Instrument tablet mode usage - bug 1181500
      • (41) - Instrument default browser prompt - bug 1191242
      • (42) - Telemetry probes for touch usage - bug 1191583
      • (43) - Telemetry for migrator usage - bug 731025
      • We are still coordinating with rel eng on the funnel cake build to test the affect of default browser prompt on usage - bug 1191060
    • UX Polish - we were able to fix most items but they all didn't make 41
      • (41) - Separator between content and toolbars - bug 1184656
      • (41) Separator between urlbar dropmarker and stop/reload/go btn - bug 1185960
      • (41) Remove hover glow behind urlbar icons - bug 1186687
      • (41) Pinned tab separators too thick - bug 1189212
      • (41) Nested toolbar buttons - bug 1194725
      • (41) Sidebar background color - bug 1198547
      • (41) Remove end padding on url bar - bug 1202287
      • (43) - Jump list icons - bug 1174141
      • (43) Find bar close icon is nearly invisible - bug 1188176
    • We made a change involves deferring the default browser prompt to second run - bug 1191250. We aren't intending this to go past Aurora for now so it's a Nightly only experiment currently.