Mobile/Notes/28-Sep-2011

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Schedule

• Released Firefox 7
• Spinning up Firefox 8 Beta 1
  • bug 688783 - Back out bug 641836 to fix keyboard issues until bug 669995 is fixed
  • bug 689404 - Revert change to inline settings that broke some existing Mobile addons
• Next merge date is 2011-11-08

Application

Front-end

• Some priorities:
  • Stabilize Fx9 on tablet and phone ASAP
  • Work on backlog of non-theme bugs we have been accumulating (need to triage)
• Get some QA and User testing on:
  • Webapps
  • Locale Picker
  • Camera
• Make some decisions on:
  • Flash on demand (front-end patch getting better)
  • UA
  • Featurettes, like the Clear Private Data changes (need to triage)

Platform Support

Android

Flash

• platform support for pre-honeycomb is in
• front end patch did not make 9
• blassey and mfinkle to push to get front end in very soon so we get as much testing as possible for 10
• honeycomb work started, ETA unknown

IME

• Masayuki working on API redesign to make our work easier bug 685395
• alexp working on patching IME events to solve a certain set of issues bug
• alexp working on keeping IME events in sync bug 653895

Performance

Startup

A small selection of bugs we are (or could be) looking at:

• bug 674651 - nsContentPolicy should skip resource and chrome schemes
• bug 689713 - Warm up the DNS cache in Java when launching with a URL intent
• bug 673253 - Delay sqlite usage until first paint
• bug 651890 - Avoid relocations when initializing plugin-container
• bug 684878 - Fetch URL while Fennec loads

Testing

QA

• List of bugs reproducible on 7.0 RC1 caught during testing; no majors.
• Concerns
  • NEW: bug 689948 - Fennec won't reopen if minimized.
  • bug 689029 - Site is entirely zoomed in on load
  • bug 670694 - virtual keyboard is not displayed when editing input boxes
  • bug 686901 - ESPN causing flickering/bad checkerboarding
    • needs further bi-secting
  • bug 687717 - Mobile Twitter (140 count doesn't decrease).
    • dev evang? Needs someone to look at their code
  • bug 689778 - Some content crashes are not getting reported at all
  • bug 689781 - Some content crashes will show in about:crashes but does not get sent to soccoro

• Status
  • 8.0b1 testplan
  • Awaiting for response for action on a 7.0.1 if needed (add-on issue)