Platform/2010-02-02

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Notices / Schedule

Gecko 1.9.3a1

• plan to freeze mozilla-central Thursday evening, build Friday, release early next week
  • does this work?
  • how long do we hold / what risk do we take to ship with OOPP on?
• still need to figure out branding
• 1.9.3 Triage: 149 nominations
• 1.9.3 alpha 1: 5 Open blockers
• features we want alpha testing on: please add anything missing to the list
• have a look at the list of top crashes in Monday's Windows mozilla-central nightly, top crashes in Tuesday's Windows mozilla-central nightly (should be useful late Tuesday / early Wednesday)

Browser / Front End

Behold, a mere sampling of the mighty awesome that the Firefox team hath wrought:

Lorentz

• UI for crashed, out-of-process plugins basically done bug 538910

Firefox.Next

• Getting close to having the ability to specify custom actions for each update. See Rob Strong's blog post, bug 530872 and bug 538331
• Stephen Horlander exploring changes we want to make to tab animation (creation, re-ordering, tear off).
• Check Boriss' blog for discussion about the new look and function of the extension manager
• Marco added a ton of awesome to browser chrome test harness, including common headers, clean up functions, and timeout extensions. Already cleared a few intermittents.
• Progress on various UI perf and responsiveness bugs (bug 520659, bug 536893, bug 528884)

See the active projects page for the complete list of active work by the Firefox team.

Startup Performance

Summary

• Read the latest weekly update.
• View snapshot results for startup and all other tests.

Priorities

Estimated win	Bug #	Summary	Owner	Status	Notes
~8%	bug 525013	Investigate a more static build configuration of Firefox	Joel Reymont	in progress	The main body of work is in the patch now, waiting on review from Ted. Joel's working various build-related cleanup, with the help of Brad Lassey and Ben Smedberg. Experiment Windows tryserver build available here.
up to 25%	bug 514083	Per-file HFS+ compression on Mac OSX 10.6	Joel Reymont	in progress	Apple developers on the darwin list recommended pre-compressing our builds, or not compressing at all. There are issues with code-signing and the update process. This is getting more complicated.
10%	bug 520309	Startup cache: replacement for fastload cache	Ben Hsieh	in progress	Ben's got a patch working now, and showing ~10% improvement in startup time. AWESOME.
60%	bug 503483	Turn on --enable-faststart for Firefox by default	Dietrich	dodgy	I got it working on Win7, and unsurprisingly, loading Firefox's core at user-login time meant that the first load of the app was very fast. However, Rob Strong brought up a bunch of problems on multi-user systems that might block turning this on by default. In the short term, we'll likely just enable some mechanism for testers to try it out.
TBD	bug 513149	Speed up CSS parsing by using a machine generated lexer	Zack Weinberg	in progress	Zack has started work on this, has a suite of changes. Some help, some hurt. Work ongoing.
>10%	bug 512584	Super fast paths for Components.classes and Components.interfaces	Taras Glek	in progress	Taras is traveling, says he'll close it out when he returns.

More

• More details on the project page.
• Join us on IRC in #startup.

Tree Management

• switching from rev2 to rev3 talos hardware
  • when is the best time?