User:Rtanglao/Roland Unofficial FF 58 Support Report
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- An unofficial support work in progress always DRAFT report for Firefox 58 Desktop for power users and mozilla support volunteers, NOT for "normal" :-) users, what are we missing? either edit or irc me :rolandtanglao on #sumo or email me rtanglao AT mozilla.com or slack me @roland (you can find me in #sumo2). My apologies that some some of the linked documents are employee only; I wish we could be more "default by open" but not my call!
- After the end of the first 3 weeks we should do a pretty report in Google Docs with graphs!
- Also please note that we are not qualitative researchers, if you want something more scientific :-), please contact Matt Grimes of Strategy and Insights; his excellent team of qualitative and quantitative researchers can do something more formal and cool for you!
Contents
- 1 Source documents
- 2 23 January 2018 Launch Day
- 3 24 January 2018 Day 2
- 4 25 January 2018 Day 3
- 5 26 January 2018 Day 4
- 6 27 January 2018 Day 5
- 7 28 January 2018 Day 6
- 8 29 January 2018 Day 7
- 9 23-29 January 2018 Week 1
- 10 30 January-5 February 2018 Week 2
- 11 6-12 February 2018 Week 3
- 12 13-19 February 2018 Week 4
- 13 week 5
- 14 Recurring non FF58-specific Things we learned from SUMO
Source documents
- User:Rtanglao/Roland_Unofficial_FF_58_for_Android_Support_Report
- Firefox 58 Desktop SUMO contributor forum thread
SUMO KB articles
- Updated https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-older-version-of-firefox because downgrading may cause data loss, see bug 1399879 comment 30 "The patch partially breaks places.sqlite backwards compatibility." and Alice's comment on this
- Automatically fill in your address on forms
NON SUMO docs
- Comms & Community Control Center - Agenda / Actions <--- this was successful in 57 for Android and Desktop so it will be continued in #cccc in slack for FF 58 Desktop and Android
- Asa Dotzler's Product and Engineering view of Firefox for Desktop and Android changes from the weekly project meeting
- Firefox 58 beta release notes
- From 58 draft release notes on allizom: Downgrading profile to previous versions is not supported. In case of downgrade, it is suggested to use a new profile for that version
- Draft Firefox Release Notes in Google Docs - I think the flow is google docs -> allizom -> mozilla.org on release day
- Asa's roadmap updates including 57 and 58 and all releases
57 documents that might be relevant to 58
The following are 57 aka Quantum docs, replace with 58 equivalents
- Firefox 57 Quantum SUMO contributor forum thread
- Rachel will be continuously updating Quantum SUMO Day Communication Plan for the first week of the release
- Rachel, Roland and Madalina are updating a more concise version: Quantum release daily report
- firefox 57 point release ridealongs for Fennec and Desktop
- If we do a FF57 Quantum point release, it will have one or more of the bugs in the 57.x drivers/ride-alongs spreadsheet
- User_talk:Rtanglao/Roland_Unofficial_FF_57_for_Android_Support_Report
Web Extensions
- Extensions in Firefox 58 by Mike Conca, Add-ons product manager (additional theme API, reader mode API for tabs, better webRequestAPI, CSP, setting default search engine API, User Notification of Extensions Overrides, external PKCS security devices )
- Unchanged from a user point of view from 57
New web extension developments in 58:
23 January 2018 Launch Day
SUMO Forums
Non SUMO forums: Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Quora, others?
- @whatthebit on twitter: tab stuttering on os x high sierra
- Saving bookmarks keeps defaulting to "Other bookmarks" folder - bug 1432604
24 January 2018 Day 2
found on SUMO
- Malware bytes is blocking Firefox 57 and 58 (not sure if it should be? it probably shouldn't be!) - bug 1418594, SUMO questions: 1201451, 1201578
- UPDATE 08February2018 it's a non default configuration, so closed as won't fix (non default config: enabling "BottomUp ASLR Enforcement", "RET ROP Gadget detection" and "CALL ROP Gadget detection" browser protection resolved the matter completely)
- Kaspersky add-on not working - question 1201499
- Hotmail aka Outlook email links not working aka Links and text selection in Outlook messages broken, mouse action received by Inbox behind open message - bug 1433591 filed by fab volunteer jscher2000
- Fix missed the deadline for Firefox 58.0.1 looks like it will be in FF 58.0.2 bug 1433591 comment 23
- bug 1434035 - stylo: ship system add-on to disable Stylo for Outlook and Hotmail
- FIXED in 58.0.2 -
jscher2000 STR from bug 1433591 comment 9: https://outlook.office365.com/owa/ with the Reading Pane hidden.-
workaround set layout.css.stylo-blocklist.enabled => true AND set layout.css.stylo-blocklist.blocked_domains => live.com,office365.com
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not found on SUMO
- Brazil banking software (trusteer related) crashing in Firefox 58: bug 1417897
25 January 2018 Day 3
found on SUMO
not found on SUMO
- Windows only, bug 1358372 reported in Firefox 54 - Volume Mixer processes being created for each tab
- hopefully fixed in Firefox 59 beta 4 for Windows and maybe a dot release for 58 ---> Windows only, Windows 10 Fall Creators Update added new Windows Defender settings that cause Firefox not to render pages or to crash (SUMO Forum threads tagged by our fabulous volunteer Philipp) from Firefox 58 is not loading any pages (including about: pages) bug 1433065, here are the Defender settings from comment 38 and 40:
- Validate Stack Integrity (StackPivot) -> no page display
- Validate API invocation (Caller Check) -> no page display
- Simulate Execution (SimExec) -> no page display
- Import Address Filtering (IAF) -> no page display
- Export Address Filtering (EAF), with and without "validate access..." option -> Crash
- but wait there's more :-) :
DEP: Enable="true" EmulateAtlThunks="false"
ASLR: ForceRelocateImages="true" RequireInfo="false" BottomUp="true" HighEntropy="false"
Payload: EnableExportAddressFilter="true" EnableExportAddressFilterPlus="true" EnableImportAddressFilter="true" EnableRopStackPivot="true" EnableRopCallerCheck="true" EnableRopSimExec="true"
In testing these individual features on Win10 1709 (Fall Creators) I've found that every payload setting here kills Firefox content.
26 January 2018 Day 4
not found on SUMO
- captive portal should link to a SUMO article rather than just saying "Success" aka "detectportal.firefox.com should return something informative for "real" user agents." - bug 1433500
27 January 2018 Day 5
28 January 2018 Day 6
29 January 2018 Day 7
- Firefox 58.0.1 was released for Desktop (includes a security fix, please upgrade!)
- ridealong: bug 1433065 - Firefox 58 is not loading any pages (including about: pages)
23-29 January 2018 Week 1
not found on SUMO
- bug 1433277 - Norton Identity Safe reported to be interfering with Firefox
30 January-5 February 2018 Week 2
- Channel Meeting FF58 post mortem: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/58-0-Post-Mortem
6-12 February 2018 Week 3
(User_talk:Rtanglao/Roland_FF57_Week3_Unanswered_Questions)
- Firefox 58.0.2 with outlook/stylo aka Template:Bug-1433591 fix was released at 25% with some ridealongs:
13-19 February 2018 Week 4
- 13February 2018 Firefox 58.0.2 unthrottled. Now at 100%
- Firefox 58.0.2 update slow and buggy for some Windows users on Reddit
- some people in reddit say it's Avast/AVG and removing Avast/AVG fixed it - Avast update their software to fix it as of February 19, 2018 - see bug 1438829 - Avast/AVG slowing down JS - 26February2018 update: on the SUMO forums remonator said that rebooting after the last AVAST/AVG update fixed the problem
- bug 1439642 - Crash in TppWaiterpThread/MD4Transform with crypto addons <-- Filed by Philipp, caused by DLL update on Microsoft Patch Tuesday!?! Adam Stevenson following up with Microsoft
- bug 1435994 - Crash in nsTSubstring<T>::Replace <--- not sure how prevalient this is!
week 5
- Firefox 57+ causes my MacBook Pro to shutdown: ""Right now I'm typing this in Firefox after changing the number of Content Processes to 1 from 4 which was the default for my Mac and it seems to be holding up"" <----- weird, OS X 10.3?!?! <--- I think that person means 10.13.3
- bug 1433531 - Youtube keeps buffering and never loads the video
- bug 1436474 - double click on HTML5 player (for fullscreen) unreliable on twitch.tv - fixed by twitch or windows update?!?! bug 1436474 comment 12
