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 *'''Mozilla Developer Preview 1.9.3 Alpha 5'''
+** hopefully this week
+** short list of [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=OPEN%20blocking1.9.3:alpha5 alpha5 blockers]
+** notable features:
+*** HTML5 Parser
+*** New Add-Ons Manager
+*** HTML5 &lt;video&gt; element using WebM format
 = Blocker Report =
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 *'''Firefox 3.5.10'''
 ** None
+*'''Gecko 1.9.3'''
+** Blockers: [http://bit.ly/9fXI3J 234]
+** Noms: [http://bit.ly/btrthA 41]
+** Beta Blockers: [http://bit.ly/b9nXAE 127]
+** Final Blockers:[http://bit.ly/ak4nry 105]
+** By Team:
+*** Layout: [http://bit.ly/9522xu 55]
+*** Content: [http://bit.ly/bdHQFO 66]
+*** GFX: [http://bit.ly/d7xtyj 20]
+*** JavaScript: [http://bit.ly/aEdbhy 75]
+** Beta Blockers By Team:
+*** Layout: [http://bit.ly/cQ4sSL 19]
+*** Content: [http://bit.ly/daafU7 46]
+*** GFX: [http://bit.ly/bMAEzE 8]
+*** JavaScript: [http://bit.ly/ctSQgF 48]
+** Noms By Team:
+*** Layout: [http://bit.ly/9ILVEH 11]
+*** Content: [http://bit.ly/cWQnk2 1]
+*** GFX: [http://bit.ly/9LDGnF 11]
+*** Javascript: [http://bit.ly/98V0f8 4]
 = Browser / Front End =
 [http://planet.firefox.com Planet Firefox] loves you!
+* Converted the form manager from C++ to JS on trunk - broke Weave. {{bug|568256}}
+* Several early features getting there: app tabs {{bug|551849}}, self-hosted home tab {{bug|563723}}, new notifications {{bug|398776}}, tab-modal dialogs {{bug|562258}}.
 = GFX Update =
-* Our plan is to force Cleartype on Windows XP for all fonts in content. However, there's some worry about people not wanting this change.
+* Our plan is to force Cleartype on Windows XP for all fonts in content. (See {{bug|504698}}.) However, there's some worry about people not wanting this change.
 ** Cleartype is turned off by default on Windows XP. Users can turn it on manually, but few do.
+** Despite this default, IE 7+ forces Cleartype on for all content.
 ** Many (most?) @font-face downloaded fonts benefit greatly from Cleartype, because they're not hinted as well as system fonts. However, system fonts can also benefit from this. The biggest difference we see is in small font sizes.
 ** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=448553 John Daggett has created a screenshot to show the difference between different ways to force Cleartype on.]
 ** Users will be able to opt out, but will have to do so by going to about:config and tweaking a pref. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V01-4PX7B6S-1&_user=10&_coverDate=03%2F31%2F2008&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1354450480&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=1661bd5f9f73a8f1c57ebacde7a1b859 We expect people will enjoy Cleartype once they get used to it], though.
+** currently off by default, but about to be on by default
+** '''if you have serious objections not already covered in the bug, please add them ASAP'''
 = Hardware Acceleration Update =
+* Joe [http://blog.mozilla.com/joe/2010/05/25/hardware-accelerating-firefox/ blogged about the two different ways we are targeting hardware acceleration]. You can read about those ways if you want to.
 = Layout Update =
+* WebM ready to land except for review of build system changes in {{bug|566247}}, and waiting for Google to sort out licensing (currently not GPL compatible, resolution expected soon)
+* Video 'buffered' attribute progressing nicely
 = Content Update =
+* No updates.
 = Platform-specific Support Update =
 = JS =
+Harmony proxies landed on mozilla-central. Going to use the API for this feature to implement wrappers more consistently and remove default multi-threaded access to JS objects. Objects that are to be shared across threads will have to be proxied by the code in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566951.
+JM value scheme is testing nicely, this week should produce more data.
+https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549143
 = Electrolysis =
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 ** We did not disable unit tests on CentOS for mozilla-central since for mozilla-central releases we have not yet changed it to run unit tests on Fedora {{bug|568655}} and we should not have mismatched unit test coverage.
 ** We enabled Fedora unit tests for tracemonkey and 1.9.2 but the pending jobs took off and we had to back out ({{bug|568655}}). The load was fine but the connections with the master and the slaves were the problem. {{bug|560957}} has landed and should fix partially the problem. We are going to wait for some more of the improvements that catlee is doing on the talos buildbot world before trying to enable this.
+* TryServer changeover last week
+* Powering off Firefox 3.0 machines soon {{bug|554226}}
 = Roundtable =
+* From support: An issue we saw a few times: Firefox is really slow loading pages.  I came across [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/683848 this hint] today: See if Firefox is "allowed" in windows firewall settings.  I'm not sure why this would help but may be worth looking into.  {{bug|569392}}
+** Christian's been working with Manmeet from MS for the past month to figure out what (if anything) we need to do for Windows AV and Firewall. Latest from them: "I'm trying to get more detail on the exact process & the right contacts at the MS Protection team and will get back to you with detailed instructions."
+* We are three weeks away from the last week of June. How are we doing with Beta 1 in terms of scheduling? Will we have another alpha (devpreview) in addition to alpha5? (juanb)
+** There is a [[Firefox/4/Beta|beta schedule]] on the wiki page with the latest information
+** We'll be doing a 5th developer preview sometime later this week
+* Moving branches to new buildbot infra (catlee)
+** why not try the 1.9.3 branch? (beltzner)
+** perhaps electrolysis? (johnath)
+* video started to suck for a bit, seemed to be a MV only issue