Platform/2009-10-20

Firefox 3.6b1

(Progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox)

0 beta blockers; 4 1.9.2 blockers.
Bas has made a lot of progress on the DirectWrite font backend for Windows 7. There are lots of screenshots in bug 517642. There's still a ways to go before this will be ready for prime time, but we're getting great results.
Jim has been having trouble reproducing a drag-and-drop cursor flickering problem on Windows. If you have seen cursor flickering, please weigh in on bug 521966.
The WebGL standard has been submitted to the Khronos board for intellectual property considerations. This will be a 45-day process, after which the spec will be released for public review.

Blocker report
- 18 Layout
  - 4 fixed on trunk and need landing
  - Some others need review
  - Need triage, but nothing scary on the list
  - Silverlight 3 doesn't work, Microsoft unresponsive in Bugzilla
- 5 Video/audio, all fixed on trunk and need branch landing
Ongoing animation improvements, can animate 'opacity' now
Removed media element "load" event and NETWORK_LOADING state on trunk and branch
New Ogg index code based on Ogg Skeleton track (cpearce)
Ogg decoder rewrite grinding through tests (doublec)
Discuss changing CSS gradient syntax for 1.9.2
jdaggett and jfkthame prepping for AtypI

(josh) We have an accepted spec for Linux plugin accessibility and Novell is working on a patch for 1.9.3. Works with out-of-process plugins.
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins:NativeAccessibility

(josh) Still waiting on sqlite library conflict resolution (bug 513747) so we can produce 64-bit Mac OS X builds without patches and set up a tinderbox. This also blocks running mochitests on 10.6.
(smichaud) 1.9.2/JEP update -- old bugs fixed, new bugs found:
- bug 513979 (Disable Java setting not preserved when switching from FF 3.5 to 3.6):
  - Fixed and landed, in beta1.
- bug 521818 (Current plugin instance not destroyed when disabling Java):
  - Fixed and landed, not in beta1.
- bug 522962 (Applet needs to be reloaded after switching to/from full screen mode):
  - Needs to be fixed in JEP, probably not a blocker.
- bug 523129 (Java's AppletContext.showDocument() doesn't work on 1.9.2 branch):
  - Patch available.

Continuing allocation performance improvements
recursive function changes
identified major source of browser/shell perf delta: wrappers / security checks. About 15% on SunSpider.

Cold Ts on Mac and Linux turned on last week
Turned on 'make check' tests on optimized and debug builds on trunk and project branches.
Turned on valgrind tests on debug builds on linux tracemonkey
8 new mac slaves added to build/test pool today, 2 xserves coming soon
Proposing to land split-mochitests on Thursday morning.