Mobile/Notes/19-Dec-2012

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Schedule

• Next merge is Week of 2013-01-06
• Fx18 Betas are shipping weekly

Major Topics for This Week

Android x86 Builds

We hinted that we were close. Now, thanks to kmoir, we have Android x86 on tbpl and nightlties. Brad is making sure the details (updates and testing plans) are ready before doing the next update post.

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

Kats

• Dec 12 - Dec 19:
  • bug 780831 - land patch for flash crashes
  • bug 818060 - add a memory reporter for graphics tiling textures
  • bug 820545 - investigate safebrowsing-related stuff in about:rights and update comment
  • bug 821224 - fix a crash caused by improper bitmap recycling
  • bug 816164 - gzip the crash report submission
  • bug 816551 - fix JS warning on startup
  • bug 817134 - delete screenshot code
  • bug 818676 - verify NDK r8c can be used to build android on build machines
  • figured out how to run new DMD on android (filled in https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink/DMD)
  • filed bug 822810 about strange behaviour observed with low-res tiling and painting (blocking gfx memory reductions)
  • bug 822698 - fix DMD compilation on android with gcc 4.6

• Next:
  • upload my armv6 memory usage data to AWSY
  • bug 807104 - turn on jsloader.reuseGlobal in fennec

GBrown

• Last week:
  • Finished (?) unit test support for webrtc: bug 811411 and related
  • bug 810347 More flexible test root support in sutAgent
  • bug 817235 Allow remote xpcshell tests to use /mnt/sdcard/tests as test root
  • bug 814805 Android xpcshell tests: chmod permission problems on rooted device
• Next:
  • PTO this Friday ... return Dec 31

MFinkle

Fixed:

• bug 820868 - Lightweight theme previews do not work on Firefox for Android, breaking the preview/install flow
• bug 819554 - Disable warning for sms protocol
• bug 820623 - Javascript warning on fennec startup (NativeWindow.menu.add)
• bug 821840 - Fix redeclaration warning in SessionStore.js
• bug 820658 - Private Browsing leaks history in SQLite's Write-Ahead Log for tabs.db

Laned:

• bug 715258 - Favicons are of low quality for local/internal pages

Looked at making pageloads faster:

• Using performance mode content-sink preferences
• Turning off throbber

(Neither was beneficial to any measurable degree)