Firefox/Meeting/27-Oct-2015
== Actions from last meeting ==
- None
== General Topics / Roundtable ==
(tips/tricks/FYI, productivity improvements, industry news)
There was a proposal to decommission "dumbmake".
- Final decision seems unclear.
[MattN] Bug #'s are now required in telemetry probe descriptions: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/fhr-dev/2015-October/000655.html
[MattN] #-moz-resolution is no longer supported/required for proper resolution ICO files. The correct frame should be automatically chosen. See https://bugzil.la/1118926
Proposal to merge comm-central into mozilla-central on m.dev.platform
[mconley]: @bcrypt published slides on how to do a timing attack to get a sense of a user's browsing history: https://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/presentations/toorcon2015.pdf. Firefox release seems slightly more vulnerable / accurate than Chrome, based on anecdotal reports.
[mconley]: Autoland for MozReview has been turned on for the version-control-tools repository for testing. Will hopefully be turned on for mozilla-inbound soonish. Other MozReview updates: http://www.lowleveldrone.com/mozilla/mozreview/2015/10/23/mozreview-workweek.html
[MattN] Interviewing for desktop front-end is starting soon
== Friends of the Firefox team ==
(Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Introductions)
Resolved bugs (excluding employees): http://mzl.la/1XvhDEK More than one bug fixed:
- Iaroslav Sheptykin
- Johann Hofmann
- Philip Chee
- Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]
Project Updates
=== Add-ons ===
=== E10s ===
- [mconley]: M8 continues to tend downward: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=cf_tracking_e10s%3Am8%2B&list_id=12639676
- [mconley]: Printing appears to be broken on OS X due to a clang upgrade? Workaround posted here: bug 1217190#c12
- [mconley]: The Telemetry Experiment has been launched: bug 1193089
=== Go Faster ===
- Progress was made on making Hello into a system extension
=== Hello ===
- New user journey (direct calls, contacts removed, auto-tab-sharing to be turned on, still at risk))
- e10s
=== Notifications ===
Done
- Notification options are complete and working on e10s for XUL (non-native) and OS X
- Management interface simplification landed
In progress: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ALsyc0Y8k0UikZYF2fjhn2wUnFMUxYeMJioz-Q2DVlo/edit?pli=1#gid=0
- Fixing XUL transparency issues
- Change in permission notification upon upgrade – push uses the same permission as web notifications
- Other polish issues and bug fixes – stabilizing for shipping in Fx44
=== Privacy/Security ===
Press outlets are talking about Tracking Protection in Fx42 e.g. http://www.alphr.com/software/1001784/ad-blocking-gathers-pace-with-mozillas-firefox-rollout Landed an updated RC4 error page to coincide with RC4 deprecation in Fx 44 Landed a patch to use a lock with a strikethrough for HTTP pages that have Password Fields in the Control Center
=== Search ===
- Bug 1203167 is close to landing (search hijacking countermeasures)
- Testing a prototype add-on to unify url+search bar, with the goal to launch a telemetry experiment soon
=== Windows 10 ===
== This week I learned… ==
[MattN] The FIDO U2F "specification" doesn't even define where it's API endpoints should be implemented… *headdesk*
- "Implementations may choose how to make such an API available to RP web pages."
- [mconley]: Someone wrote an add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/u2f-support-add-on/