Platform/2012-06-26

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2012-06-26 - 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95312
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 95312
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
• Warp Core Vidyo Room / SFO-Boardroom
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Notices / Schedule

• Firefox for Android 14.0 released at ~6:30AM PT this morning!!!

• We are in our fourth week of the cycle
• Please continue to prioritize tracked FF14 bugs over tracked FF15 bugs over work landing on m-c
• Background updates for Windows has been enabled on FF15 (currently on Aurora).
• We've taken a fix that prevents the need for a restart to update Flash on Windows in Beta 14. Please be on the lookout for plugin regressions.
• 11.3 Adobe Flash crash investigation is ongoing

Firefox Development

• Continuing a recent trend: plenty of Web App runtime fixes: pre-loading of indexedDB settings (bug 757678), pre-loading the appcache (bug 760365), and preliminary work on Mac for distinguishing installed/uninstalled apps (bug 756308)
• First bit of the social API work landed (bug 762579), plenty more to come (bug 762569, bug 766403)

Performance

• This week's Snappy status
• Frank has picked up Australis work from Jared.
• More cache fixes coming from the Necko team.
• Lots of work going on with Peptest in collaboration with the Metrics team to improve data coming from this tool.

Layout

• Please welcome Emmanuele Bassi to the Platform Layout Team.
• Notable Patches:
  • bug 757362 - Use the displayport for the dirty rect (if one is set) when building the display list for a subdocument so that position: fixed items are correctly included. (tn)
  • bug 575294 - Bad news security bug (mats)
  • bug 726264 - Bad news security bug (mats)
  • bug 764541 - Bad news security bug (mats)
  • bug 718290 - Track TEXT_IN_TEXTRUN_USER_DATA separately for inflated and non-inflated text runs. (dbaron)
  • bug 765218 - Treat animation-iteration-count:0 specially. (dbaron)
  • bug 655920 - Implement new values of animation-direction. (dbaron)
  • bug 763702 - Ensure font inflation bits are set during frame construction for root frame. (sjohnson)
  • bug 762764 - Prevent selection from descending into text boxes when extending it for things like caret navigation and extension for deletion (ehsan)
  • bug 765597 - Invalidate the thebes layer as well as the overflow area when moving frames (ehsan)
  • bug 767823 - Make SVG nsAutoFilterInstance take frame rects and stop using GetCoveredRegion (jwatt)
  • bug 757347 - Share mask layers for memory & performance (ncameron)
  • bug 767734 - Prepare SVG for DisplayList-based Invalidation (jwatt)
  • bug 541270 - Correctly calculate the filter region for SVG filters on HTML to account for zooming (jwatt)
  • bug 764117 - Prefer performance over avoiding seaming in border drawing (bas)
  • bug 766007 - Create scrollframes for frameset documents. (roc)
  • bug 703241 - PresShell::DoScrollContentIntoView and PresShell::ScrollFrameRectIntoView should take transforms into account. (roc)

Media

• Experimenting with linking gkmedia back into xul on Windows for WebRTC - with or without PGO - bug 768325
• Switching build default for webrtc on in the near future (navigator.mozGetUserMedia() is nearing checkin) - bug 691234 -- will be behind an about:config pref

Mobile

• We shipped this morning
• Reader mode landed
• bookmarks import (from stock and other webkit browsers) landed

Tree Management

• armv6 fennec builds enabled on all branches
• b2g debug builds enabled on all branches

Security

Available Slots - Get 'em while they are hot!

Calendar: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html

For updates to meetings please see the Security Review Calendar

• HTML: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html
• .ics: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review

Bugs marked sec-review-needed that need to be scheduled

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Stability Report

Desktop

Highlights:

Trunk Top Crashers

• bug 767996 - top crash on trunk that is now resolved fixed.

Beta Top Crashers

• bug 714320 Spike in this signature in early B9 data. Renominated for tracking.
• bug 768383 Likely related to Bug 714320
• bug 768395

13.0.1 Top Crashers

• New version of Flash was shipped - 11.3.200.262. Users are continuing to migrate to the new version and we are tracking new bugs correlated to the version.
  • bug 768382
  • bug 767883
  • bug 767882
  • Breakdown of Flash version usage

Mobile

• Current crashes for Fennec 14 beta 8 are under 5 crashes per 100 ADU. About the same as beta 7
  • possible concern is about bug 763702, bug 756999 nsFontInflationData::FindFontInflationDataFor

See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes

• 14.0b8 Beta top crashes
  1. bug 756999, bug 763702 nsFontInflationData::FindFontInflationDataFor
  2. bug 763175, bug 763173 - AndroidGLController::ProvideEGLSurface
  3. bug 767713 java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp.onPrepareOptionsMenu(GeckoApp.java)

• Aurora top crashes
  1. bug 731293 nsBaseContentList::cycleCollection::CanSkipReal
  2. bug 767713 org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp.onPrepareOptionsMenu(GeckoApp.java)
  3. bug 756999, bug 763702 nsFontInflationData::FindFontInflationDataFor

• Nightly top crashes
  1. bug 765712, bug 765463 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Bad limit (capacity 2097152): -1024 at java.
  2. bug 765463 java.nio.Buffer.limit(Buffer.java)
  3. bug 761929 java.lang.IllegalStateException: The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView() on the childs parent first. at android.view.ViewGroup.addViewInner(ViewGroup.java)