Platform/2009-11-03

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.5.5

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• 3.5.5 open blockers
• 3.0.16 open blockers

Firefox 3.6b1

• On schedule to be released tomorrow, October 28th
• bugs found during QA cycle - none block the beta's release
• first run page promotes getting feedback from users
• add-on compatibility reporter is available to crowdsource add-on compatibility
• should we update beta users more frequently, perhaps with weekly stable builds?

Firefox 3.6rc

• proposed code freeze November 18th (3 weeks)
• gives time for beta feedback as well as to fix remaining blockers

Blocker Report

See more Firefox 3.6 related blocker queries, or learn about the new status and blocker flags

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 140 OPEN (+25 w/w)
  • 31 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-2 w/w)
  • 44 nominations (-25 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • 112 requests (+15 w/w)
  • 37 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (+0 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

(Progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox)

• see our active projects and get involved / propose others
• Namoroka/mozilla-1.9.2 front end development:
  • 40 blockers left, 5 already have fixes, 6 are crashkill
  • per tab prioritization for session restore to land this week bug 514490, see the project page for more detail
• we are once again string frozen
  • took the following string changes: bug 518468, bug 517902, bug 518601
• windows 7 tab preview
  • vlad and robarnold working through two major bugs {numbers to follow}
  • if we can't get it resolved by the end of the week, we'll likely pull the per-tab-preview feature from Firefox 3.6 (the rest of Aero Peek support is still there and working fine)
• a11y changes for tables (see this page for a list of bugs and why this is desired)
  • has tests
  • doesn't affect Firebug
  • doesn't introduce compatibility problems with existing screen readers
  • decided to take the patches listed on that page

GFX Update

• 11 blockers

Startup Performance

Estimated win	Bug #	Summary	Owner	Status	Notes
~10%	"Dirty Profile" Startup Reduction	Constant startup relative to profile size	Shawn Wilsher
significant	bug 558200	Extension profiler platform api	Steve Fink		There is an easy way to provide feedback to extension developers to help them figure out why their extension is misbehaving. We need to implement that ASAP, so typical firefox installs(with lots of extensions) can be fast

Join us on IRC in #startup.

Security

pending reviews

feature	review date	who	interested
Windows TSF integration (1.9.2)	unscheduled	Jim Chen, roc
DNS Prefetching	unscheduled	Patrick McManus	Jesse, bz, reed(?), ctalbert
New system metrics (and media queries)	unscheduled	?	dbaron