QA/Firefox3/Planning Meetings/2006-07-12

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Gecko 1.9/FF3 Mtg - 7/12/06

Gecko 1.9

• Found perf problem
  • Stuart fixed - 30% improvement!
  • Mostly within 2 ms of baseline
  • some pages still double - probably text measurement

• Linux
  • writing xftpath (?)
  • May need to fall back to pango (?)
  • Mark Steele is working on this

Mac

• Coco widgits mostly working
• 15% perf regression - just from coco widgets
  • Hmm... should be faster with coco native widgets
• Cairo backend goes directly to quartz for rendering - should be fast - but may need optimizing

New tP tests

• Trunk is 2x branch to complete tests
• There are nightlies that are non-cairo - these are hidden in experimental - see Vlad
• Bad perf jump occured when cairo was turned on!

Google toolbar QA team

• Found mem leak with safebrowsing
• Can plug in any extension
• Alice to call Anne - automate this?
  • Darin to send Anne's info to Timr
  • Darin has been working with rhelmer

GCC ability to choose

• GCC 4.2
• Incremental linking - slow on Windows. Fast on MacOS. Workarounds for linux. See dbaron.

FF3

• Sherman on jury duty - put off until next week

Vista?

• beltzner - contacted by Vista team(!) about clipboard security
• IE7 - running in low priv by default - eliminates security problems with drag and drop
• They wanted to know if we wanted to do something like this?
• Will they expose the nx bit? - heap segment not executable
• Schrep/dveditz to look into this?

Build XP and Vista versions?

• One version with extra features for Vista
• IE 7 - will screw up auto update features
  • Anything with "setup" in the filename will get special handling which will break FF update!
• IE 7 - includes Arrow graphics features
• An engineer needs to own Vista migration issues
• Vista Corp release - ~Dec/Jan
• Vista Home release - ~Mar/Apr

FF3 Developer Preview

• Before FF2 final release?? - would be confusing to users
• Need to manage expectations
• FF2 UI with new graphics engine