Firefox/Meeting/21-Jul-2015

Details

• Third Tuesday of the month - 8:00am Pacific, 11:00am Eastern, 15:00 UTC
• Handy local meeting time link

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 91337
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 91337
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 91337
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • 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
• irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel
• "Firefox" Vidyo Room

General Topics / Roundtable

(tips/tricks, productivity improvements, industry news)

• New BrowserTestUtils directory for shared testing utilities
  • BrowserTestUtils has a bunch of useful utilities for testing and avoids having duplication between head.js files.
  • ContentTask.spawn is useful for running code in the content process in an e10s-safe way.
• How to get a profile from a hung process (Mac and Linux)
• Easily add live pref-controlled logging to your module which outputs to stdout and the Browser Console (with inspectable objects):

XPCOMUtils.defineLazyGetter(this, "log", () => {
  let ConsoleAPI = Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/devtools/Console.jsm", {}).ConsoleAPI;
  let consoleOptions = {
    maxLogLevelPref: PREF_LOG_LEVEL,
    prefix: "My Log Prefix",
  };
  return new ConsoleAPI(consoleOptions);
});

• Frequency of this meeting
  • May change to once every 2 weeks. No decision made yet.
• What is the status of feature reviews?
  • Need to ask bsmedberg. mfinkle gave examples of more things being considered for the list.
• What is the status of product line reviews?
  • One happened yesterday. An update should occur shortly.
• Have we centrally documented our new sub-team structure?
  • Helps to find whom to ask if you have a question about something
  • Existing module system doesn't have answers for User Experience and Product
  • Mossop will document out what the sub-teams are and possibly list members.

Friends of the Firefox team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping report, fix and test bugs.

Thanks to the following people for regular contributions to the desktop Firefox front-end in the last year!

• Alice White [:Alice0775]
• Aryx [:archaeopteryx][:aryx]
• Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]
• Ekanan Ketunuti
• Ian Moody [:Kwan]
• Luís Miguel [:Quicksaver]
• Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]
• Richard Marti [:Paenglab]
• Sören Hentzschel
• Tim Nguyen [:ntim]
• Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]
• and probably others who were missed!

Project Updates

e10s

• Team is in "M8" - see list of M8 bugs here
  • M8 slated to be finished over the rest of the quarter
  • The end goal of M8 is to make e10s ready enough to be enabled by default on Aurora
  • Nobody is perfect. There are lingering M7 and M6 bugs still. :/ We're working on it.
• Team is starting to shift focus from "make e10s work" to "fix add-ons with e10s" and "make e10s fast"
• Fun facts:
  • about:newtab is being moved from XUL -> XHTML, and will soon be runnable in the content process, thanks to :ursula (see bug 1021654)
  • The Lightweight Theme web installer should now be working with e10s, thanks to :jimicy (see bug 653065)
  • We're doing bi-weekly talos comparisons between e10s and non-e10s. Those reports are put in here: bug 1144120
  • Very interesting data about e10s stability and performance on dev-platform
• Reminder:
  • Bugs that should be triaged by the e10s team should be marked with the tracking-e10s flag set to ?
  • Triage occurs every Tuesday (4PM ET) and Thursday (12PM ET) in the e10s vidyo room.
  • Come join us in #e10s for your e10s questions.

Go Faster

• Targetting a v1 in aurora by end of Q3
• Meetings, notes, status reports: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Go_Faster

Privacy/Security

• Control center replaces Larry
• Planning to ship Tracking Protection in Private Browsing for 42
  • Likely one tracking list with a tour (spec).
• Interns are continuing great work on the password manager for 42.

Search

• Aiming to ride 42 train
  • Unified Autocomplete bugs still being resolved
  • Search suggestions in the awesomebar

Windows 10

• Ensure Firefox is not completely broken in Firefox 40 (fix critical bugs) and tweak UI to make it fit in better with Windows 10 look and feel overall.
  • Windows 10 updates officially to start to go out on July 29th, 2015.
  • Firefox 40 GA on Aug 11th, 2015.
• Looking into changes to how default applications are set