Platform/2010-01-12

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.18 / Firefox 3.5.8

  • code freeze January 19th
  • there are 17 blockers remaining for 1.9.0.18
    • owners are: smaug, dbaron, ddahl, dholbert, Enn, honzab, igor, jimm, jst, mrbkap (x5), roc, surkov, wtc
  • there are 31 blockers remaining for 1.9.1.8
    • owners are: smaug, dbaron, ddahl, dholbert, dolske, Enn, gal (x2), honzab, igor, jimm, joe, jst, kaie, matsp, mrbkap (x8), rs, roc, surkov, wtc and 3 unassigned (XPConnect, 2xDOM)
  • release Feb 16th

SeaMonkey 2.0.2/2.0.3

  • 2.0.2 with Gecko 1.9.1.7 and a mail freeze fix released yesterday
  • 2.0.3 planned in sync with Firefox 3.5.8

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate

  • available last Friday, announced yesterday
  • reviewing blocker nominations daily

Firefox Future Releases

  • discuss now or roundtable, your choice!

Blocker Report

Firefox 3.6 RC Code Completion

All Blockers (includes website, release management, etc)
See more Firefox 3.6 related blocker queries, or learn about the new status and blocker flags

Browser / Front End

  • if you want to play with a preview of the new theme, install Strata40 and StrataBuddy
  • sdwilsh is tracking his work on [Firefox/Goals/2010Q1/IO_Reduction reducing main thread IO] if you'd like to follow along

GFX Update

Layout Update

Content Update

Platform-specific Support Update

JS

  • ES5 changes landing
  • Interpreter rearchitecture underway
  • WebGL typed arrays landed

Startup Performance

Security

Electrolysis

Tree Management

  • Adding delay to continuous building of FF3.0. Details in {{bug|
  • Talos Rebasing (continued)
    • new hardware arrived, unboxed
    • xp image being installed
    • ubuntu changing to fedora32, fedora64
    • WinVista changing to Win7

Roundtable

  • XULRunner branch release plan: We release XR on 3 branches. How long do we keep releasing a branch?