Releases/Firefox 3.1b1/RRRT

Release Rapid Response Team - Firefox 3.1 Beta 1

This is the coordination page for the the new & experimental Firefox Release Rapid Response Team.

The team will be watching for feedback from all over and reports of "possible" or "emerging" issues will be aggregated here as soon as they're discovered. As issues get confirmed, they'll be turned into bugs and passed on to the Release Drivers team and nominated for fixing in the next dot release. Those confirmed issues will also be "written up" for deployment by Support, blog commenters, firefox_answers, etc.

Stability

Add-ons

Complaints on Twitter that Gears is broken and breaks Gears utilizing sites.

Update Mechanism

Broken Features

Hendrix: Complaints that there isn't a New Tab button in Toolbars > Customize so people can put it in the Navigation toolbar. This is bug 456984

Data Migration or Loss

Sites not working

• Two Twitter reports of Google Reader not working in the beta. http://twitter.com/shauntrennery/statuses/959860104 http://twitter.com/ionel_mc/statuses/959798595 Sounds like this is Google Gears bustage. Gears not compatible with 3.1B1? This UNCO/INCO bug is the closest we have to a bug report, though.

• "Firefox 3.1 + Mootools 1.2 = broken! I submitted a ticket to Mootools :) " http://twitter.com/fastest963

General, Unknown, or Other

• Scrolling on Mac is slow. [1]. This is caused by pixel scrolling support, which was added last month [2]. Workround is to turn off pixel scrolling: mousewheel.enable_pixel_scrolling=false.