Firefox/Meeting/29-Sep-2015

Actions from last meeting

• Invite Nick Nguyen to talk about ideas for the Spring release
  • MattN was traveling and forgot to do this and also thought it is probably too early in the process.
    • [jaws] i caught up with Nick and he said that there are ideas but no plans yet for the spring release. he will attend the next fx-desktop meeting and go over them then, in 2 weeks

General Topics / Roundtable

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

• what happened to the 2H Firefox meeting tomorrow? It got cancelled without any further info - is it going to be rescheduled for a different time/date (when) ?
• [mconley] We should make sure that the new Add-ons team is being properly integrated, since they're now part of the Firefox team
  • dcamp will make sure people are on lists
• RTL regressions: Control center, search drop down, devtools. Reminder, use forceRTL addon, reviewers: please take extra care.
  • Links: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/building-rtl-aware-web-apps-and-websites-part-1/
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/force-rtl/
  • Control center bug: bug 1201703
  • Searchbar: bug 1206709 and bug 1204366, bug 1203935
  • newtab/home: bug 1198088
  • are there devtools bugs on file?
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=rtl&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=12578158&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&product=Firefox# Firefox buglist including devtools
• [mconley] I did a JS/DOM/SDK/testing talk to onboard a newhire. Might be useful for folks in the future: https://people.mozilla.org/~mconley2/talks/js-and-dom-for-gecko-hackers-talk/ (source: https://github.com/mikeconley/js-and-dom-for-gecko-hackers-talk)
• Firefox product/arch. onboarding topics: https://fx-team.etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox-architecture-product
• fx-desktop mailing list?
  • calendar and list mostly used for PTO and the calendar invite for this meeting (though the meeting email also goes to firefox-dev).

Friends of the Firefox team

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

• Resolved bugs (excluding employees): http://mzl.la/1FEdbyM
  • More than one bug fixed:
    • Iaroslav Sheptykin
    • Jacek Caban
    • Tim Nguyen [:ntim]

Project Updates

add-ons

• Add-ons team has joined the Firefox team
• Add-ons#What

e10s

• Still on M8 - but we've cracked the 60 bug count, which we've been floating around for a month or so
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=cf_tracking_e10s%3Am8%2B&list_id=12351245
• I believe the next step after M8 is to triage the e10s-perf metabug
  • bug e10s-perf

Go Faster

• In progress updating of system add-ons
• http://hearsum.ca/blog/going-faster-with-balrog.html

Hello

• Link clickers clicking their own links now open in Firefox
• Visual refresh now _almost_ complete in Nightly

Notifications

• New team starting to work on (Push) Notifications
  • MattN, Kit, & Jared
• [jaws] Background: The Push API is almost ready to be released, will allow sites to request Push permissions and they could then use them to show web notifications using Push
  • Much of the work covers:
    • Redesigning the notification to include origin and settings button
    • Adding management UI to about:preferences
    • Allowing notifications to "requireinteraction" before dismissing

• Firefox/Push_Notifications
• UI designs (multiple pages): https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/3A4A895XZ#/screens/104465680
• Backlog https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ALsyc0Y8k0UikZYF2fjhn2wUnFMUxYeMJioz-Q2DVlo/edit#gid=0

Privacy/Security

• Password manager password column has changed behaviour. Double-click to edit/view a password inline
• Contextual Identity UI landed preffed off
  • https://air.mozilla.org/steve_englehardt/
  • Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/Containers
• In progress for 44 - update UI for aboutCertError.xhtml and get rid of Larry, etc.
  • What's Larry? ;-) Answer: The passport-checking stick figure in the security dialogs.
    • Open about:certerror and you can see Larry
  • http://brampitoyo.github.io/fx-untrusted-connection/
  • http://brampitoyo.github.io/fx-untrusted-connection/rc4.xhtml
  • http://brampitoyo.github.io/fx-untrusted-connection/severe.xhtml

Search

Windows 10

• Edge migration stuff:
  • still in touch with MS folks over History & homepage migration
  • everything else is landed on Nightly (including minimal history implementation from typedURLs in the registry), much of it uplifted to 41/42
• Theme work to tidy up the last issues is still ongoing.

Quick Team Update

• Tim Taubert has moved to the platform security team. His reports will now report to Panos.

This week I learned…

• [mconley] I've seen this trick used by bz and ehsan a few times - if you're debugging the native code, and you need to set a breakpoint that's normally hit very often (ex: Element::DispatchEvent), and you only want it to break after some JS that you call, set a breakpoint at js::math_sin, and call that before your special JS code. Then, when you hit that breakpoint, set up / enable your other breakpoints. Voila!
• [kitcambridge] UNIFIED_SOURCES are concatenated together, then compiled. If one source file doesn't include a required header, but another one does, and they're merged into the same unified file, everything will build fine. If you add a new source file, it affects how they're merged, so you can get unrelated breakages.