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
- SUMO contributor support forum thread for firefox 61 for android
- at the last minute i.e. 6 days ago! the amazing jim chen, fixed the s8 oreo crash (not all variants of the s8 and s8+ and note 8, just the north american variants):
- Firefox 61.0 for Android release notes
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?!?!
- bug 1468541 - Crash in AllocInfo::Get<T> <--- 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)