Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-07-19

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Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• Riot #release-drivers for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768
• +17207072699,,536097768# US
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

REMEMBER

These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Attendees

RyanVM, dmeehan, afischer, Aryx, dsmith, gbustamante, dveditz, JR Johnson

Schedule Update

• Release 102
  • There are currently no dot release drivers
• Beta 103
  • 103.0 RC1 @ 100% rollout on the beta channel
  • Fenix/Focus 103.1.0 @ 5% rollout in Production
  • There are currently no RC respin drivers
• Nightly 104
  • Had new GV nightlies yesterday due to crash, all fixed now after backout of 1777604

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=162287133 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1780238 created to review the cold page/warm page metrics

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.76% (-0.04pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.89 (+0.15)

• Crash in [@ AsyncShutdownTimeout | profile-change-teardown | ServiceWorkerShutdownBlocker: shutting down Service Workers ]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675068
  • top crash #3
  • needinfoed a developer

• Crash in [@ mozilla::net::ConnectionEntry::~ConnectionEntry]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1777848
  • needinfoed ghess to find a person to investigate it before code freeze

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: % (pp), crash rate: () - no sufficient data for 103.0rc1

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.74% (-0.07pp), crash rate: 1.42 (+0.01)

ESR

• Crash in [@ js::NewStringCopyNDontDeflateNonStaticValidLength<T>]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1780094
  • Proxy Auto Config (PAC) related crash for Brazilian government site
  • existed under different signature already for Firefox 91esr

• Startup Crash in [@ nsRemoteService::StartupServer]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1777534
  • Did we hear back from Mozilla Online?

QA

• RC1 103.0-build1 flatpak build not available
• RC1 91.12.0esr-build1 testing - in progress. No concerns until now.
• RC1 102.1esr-build1 testing - in progress. No concerns until now.
• The prefs from the new features from RC 103 are set as expected.

Nightly

• Nightly 104 accessibility testing - in progress. No concerns until now.

SUMO Report

• A few reports of internet connection sharing causing Firefox Crashes of freezing
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/vh7rh9/ff_10101_crashing_constantly_on_w10/
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/vmww7x/internet_connection_sharing_causes_firefox_to/
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/vhabp1/firefox_freezes_often/
• Issues with ESET software / Antivirus software: Users unable to install add-ons
  • Uses Malwarebytes/ESET mentions https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1381759 and https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1381891
  • Users ESET https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1381691
  • Other questions https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1381703 and https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1381705
  • ESET seems to be the main culprit: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1381931 "Ok, so I paused antivirus, uninstalled firefox, restarted my computer, reinstalled, and now I've got everything downloaded. Re-enabled antivirus as well."
• Saving issues on Ubuntu: Twitter(https://twitter.com/frobnosticus/status/1542193330255286273) report, r/firefox (https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/vqm344/can_suddenly_no_longer_save_rightclick_menu_etc/)
• FxAccount MFA issue with Authy: Multiple reports (https://twitter.com/mattleythegreat/status/1545170527546998784) Noting Firefox wont accept their 2FA code from Authy

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Meeting invite will be sent out this week