Platform/2011-09-06

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Mobile Discussion

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/MobilePerformance

Notices / Schedule

• 3.6.22 and 6.0.2 (desktop and mobile) just went live
• 7.0b4 will come out later today with the same fixes
• If you are on the book for 3.6.23 patches (the update that will ship with Firefox 7), please land them on releases/mozilla-1.9.2 ASAP

Firefox Development

• Tim Taubert refactored Panorama's WebProgressListener to support e10s, and to improve private browsing support WRT saving tab thumbnails (bug 674926)
• Kev Needham worked with Twitter to add Twitter search to the Firefox search bar (bug 671307)
• Michael Ventnor is making progress cleaning up and refactoring some autocomplete APIs to properly support inline autocomplete (bug 566489)

Firefox Developer Tools

• We're trying to collect code editor feedback (blog post)

Layout

• 'font-stretch' implemented (jfkthame/jdaggett) --- 4-digit bug fixed!

• Team status:
  • dbaron: reviews, investigating mobile text resizing
  • dholbert: CSS3 flexbox
  • matspal, tnikkel: bug fixing
  • fantasai: getting started on page-break-*
  • jfkthame: bug fixing, patches for Graphite font support
  • jwatt: converting SVG code to use display lists and be more like other layout code
  • heycam: WebIDL, reworking SVG text to use CSS layout
  • smontagu: implementing dir="auto" and unicode-bidi:isolate/plaintext
  • mattwoodrow: further 3D-transforms improvements (layer sorting)

• Zzzzz

Video

• Basic fullscreen API landed (preffed off) (cpearce)
  • cpearce now working on UI changes needed to get it enabled by default
• Team status:
  • doublec: bug fixing
  • kinetik: tidying up libcubeb sound library for review
  • karl: reviews, tuning the lighting in the Auckland office
  • cpearce: fixing remaining issues with fullscreen API (such as multiprocess support)
  • rgiles: starting on WebVTT subtitles
  • derf, jmvalin: Opus work, WebRTC standards discussion, WebRTC demo hacking
  • rjesup: WebRTC
  • roc: MediaStreams processing infrastructure

WebAPI

Nothing new to report.

Stability Report

Friday metrics outage

• Data center outage for metrics
• ADUs are missing for Friday - everything is 0.
• ADUs should have been backfilled but not appearing in Socorro.

Desktop

• Trunk stability calmed down a bit. Still seeing a number of signatures in older builds.
• Type Inference checkins
  • http://bit.ly/nyYbmc
• Bug 684797 - top crash on the trunk over the weekend but looks like a fix is pending.
• Bug 676023 - duped to another bug - trying to figure out if it's fixed.
• Bug 683967
• Bug 683753 - top crash on mac and linux for desktop, high on the list for windows (this one is fixed but still appearing in old builds).
• Other
  • A couple of big issues related to dlls/extensions
  • Bug 684748 - dll comcash installs - high on release crashes (9k+ a day crashes).
  • Bug 655775 - DataMgr.dll

Mobile

• Naoki's detailed mobile crash report - https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/crash_rep_05Sept2011
• Top Fennec crashes that need to be looked at
  • Bug 683133 - reproducible regression
  • Bug 663494
• Top issues in Core but high for Mobile
  • http://bit.ly/nzxDv9

Roundtable

• The discussion about web app shells and profiles petered out without a decision by the webapp guys: I (bsmedberg) was under the impression that this was an urgent project. If so, can we get decisions to proceed with implementation?