Platform/2012-09-11

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Platform Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2012-09-11 - 11:00 am Pacific
  • Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95312
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 95312
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 95312
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • 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
  • Warp Core Vidyo Room / SFO-Boardroom
  • join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Notices / Schedule

  • Firefox 15.0.1 with a fix for the private browsing issue went out last Thursday
  • Firefox 16 beta 2 (including mobile ARMv6) went out the door last Friday
  • Firefox for Android 15.0.1 with a fix for keyboard issues went out yesterday (Monday)
  • Firefox 16 beta 3 will be going to build today
  • Please stay focused on bugs tracked for Firefox 16

Firefox OS

  • The development team had a successful week in Sao Paulo working with Telefonica. Major visual design changes landed - icons, wallpapers, homescreen layouts, etc. Tons of bugs and features landed.
  • Now moving towards end of next milestone with is last feature work landed by 9/28.
  • Follow along via this sheet which tracks the progress of the built-in apps, the @hackb2g twitter account which tweets Gaia commits, and the B2G Desktop builds.
  • Dogfooding program: Device selection in progress, OTA updates almost ready for dogfooding, expect more info over the next 1-2 weeks.

Firefox Development

Firefox Developer Tools

  • Source map implementation can be followed here: bug 771597
  • Remote web console getting close, follow here: bug 768096

Add-on SDK

Performance

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  • Snappy work week this week

GFX

  • Cairo-Azure canvas backend is now on by default on all OSes.
    • We expect to remove the second canvas implementation just after Firefox 18 branches to Aurora.
    • Please test canvas on Windows XP, Linux and mobile, and report bugs!

JS

  • IonMonkey has landed in mozilla-central! Preffed on for desktop (bug 745386). David Anderson and the IonMonkey team.

Layout

  • support for embedded SVG glyphs in OpenType fonts landed (bug 719286)
  • Bugs of interest:
    • Allow web pages to access cross-origin stylesheets if the CORS headers say so (bug 732209)
    • script for importing reftests from CSS Working Group tests now supports auto-prefixing (bug 786891), which is progress towards importing more tests
    • support for finding touch event targets that aren't exactly at the event point is now in Gecko rather than the Fennec front-end, bug 780847
    • support for print callbacks for <canvas> elements (needed by PDF.js) bug 745025
    • case that slows down style change calculation now more limited (though not clear how much it helped the original gaia testcase) (bug 779968)
    • support for <ol reversed> (bug 601912)

Media

DOM

WebAPI

  • (I forgot this last week) a few weeks ago we hosted a day of discussions about app cache
    • in conjunction with Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft developers we decided a few changes can make it much better and more palatable to web developers
    • rough notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/appcache
    • work to be determined
  • Jan Varga continuing work on unified quota handling for offline storage
  • Bonnie Surender got a patch reviewed and ready to land for improved wifi geolocation on Linux (bug 668194)
  • Andrea Marchesini has a patch for transferrable object support with workers (bug 720083)
  • MozCamp EU
    • Mounir gave two presentations which generated good questions
    • great conversations and community building

Network

Identity

Plugins

Mobile

Accessibility

Tree Management

  • Seeing improved wait times due to reallocation of slaves, turning off tests.
    • If you know of any perma-orange/red tests, please let us know so we can shut them off until they can be fixed!
  • Extra load from ionmonkey-enabled/-disabled fennec builds bug 789373

Security

Stability Report

Socorro

  • Large new release might be pushed to production tomorrow, subject to QA signoff
    • Support for rapid beta ("mobeta")
    • Also bringing per-build-date reports for Aurora and Nightly
    • bugs in this release

Desktop

  • Release
    • 15.0.1 is now up at 52 million ADUs and the crash rate looks good.
    • Third Party Issues
      • bug 789700 crash in vmsfdmff.dll@0x5728 with Free Download Manager 1.5.7.5
      • bug 783369 Norton Confidential 2012.5.5.11 crashes (couictlr.dll, coffplgn.dll)
  • Beta - 16b2 - crash rate a bit higher than normal but is coming down.
    • before we had pushed the bits out, there was a high number of crashes - 1200
    • bug 782706 crash in browsemngr.dll bundled with Babylon
    • bug 790047 Firefox startup crash in js::XDRScript
  • Aurora
    • crash rate come down in the last week
    • New crashes
      • bug 789933 crash in mozilla::gfx::DrawTargetCairo::Stroke
  • Trunk
    • top regression fixed so the rate is going down
    • bug 789933 crash in mozilla::gfx::DrawTargetCairo::Stroke
    • bug 788436 Firefox 18 crash in nsGfxScrollFrameInner::ScrollToImpl
  • Flash
    • There is still a top generic crash from Flash
    • bsmedberg landed a patch on trunk - do we land it on other channels?
    • Stephen Donner found a reproducible crash - working on a reduced test case for Adobe.
    • Nothing that has changed dramatically.
    • bug 782395
    • bug 777008
    • bug 772717
    • 11.4 now seems to have made it to the majority of users, but no really big win - overall volume on Vista and higher is still 3x as many crashes and 4x as many hangs as 11.2 was.

B2G

  • Some B2G data but not much that's actionable yet
  • Only the Mac data is useful.
  • Kairo/Naoki on point to monitor this effort.
  • Meta tracking bug 761905

Mobile

CrashStats 2012-09-11.png

  • 45% of all our crashes on Fx15 mobile are startup related.
    • Waiting for 15.0.1 release to see if the startup crashes might calm down.
  • Wishlist fix:
    • bug 756140 - even though this is with Cynogenmod, the number of crashes for this is huge (6240 crashes in 3 days) versus the next one down which is 1,576 crashes in 3 days. It's the biggest crash in 15/16

See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes

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