Sumo/Unofficial FF 61 Android Support Report

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UNOFFICIAL SUMO Firefox for Android 61 Support Report

  • Release date was Tuesday June 26, 2018

Source Documents

tl;dr for stakeholders

Week 1 (June 26-July 2, 2018)

  • top crashers from RC builds:
    • bug 1468541 - Crash in AllocInfo::Get<T> <--- snapdragon 820/821 specific?!?!
      • 25July2018 update: 30,000 crashes, but no non mangled stack trace?!?
    • bug 1470925 - Crash in _$LT$rayon_core..job..HeapJob$LT$BODY$GT$$u20$as$u20$rayon_core..job..Job$GT$::execute <--- snapdragon 820/821 specific?!?!

Week 2 (July 3-9, 2018)

  • 03July2018 - Mike Taylor: Google Tier 1 Search in Firefox for Android Nightly ---> Late last week we quietly landed a Nightly-only addon that spoofs the Chrome Mobile user agent string for Google Search (well, Facebook too, but that's another blog post) <---- i know this is Fennec Nightly only but we might get complaints :-) in social and the SUMO forums <--- bug 1453691 - Create a system addon for overriding Fennec UA string for Google and Facebook properties}} <---- again Fennec nightly only :-) <--- temporary :-) "This is live as of today, I'd like it to run for 4 weeks then we should back it out." i.e. until beginning of August 2018 roughly

Week 3 (July 10-16, 2018)

Week 4 (July 17-23, 2018)

Week 7 (August 7-13, 2018)

  • 08August2018 ---> Firefox 61.0.2 (FF61.0.2 for Android draft release notes) for Android ships some bug fixes we wanted to get in for a few weeks, specifically an Android crash on 4.4 and older versions of Android: bug 1472996 Crash in java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: android.view.accessibility.AccessibilityNodeInfo.removeAction at org.mozilla.geckoview.SessionAccessibility.populateNodeInfoFromJSON(SessionAccessibility.java)