Platform/2011-10-18

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesdays - 11:00 am Pacific
• Warp Core Vidyo Room
• 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Notices / Schedule

• Sending the go for an updated Firefox Beta today
• Next source migration is November 8, 2011

Firefox Development

• Silent update
  • Beta (8) - Landed change for feature Lesson App Update Displayed UI, dialog display timeout changed from 12 to 24 hours. Over 90% of users should no longer see this dialog as part of update.
  • Beta (8) Landed change for releng that allows for hiding the "what's new" page after update. See feature Silent Update whatsnew
  • Nightly (10) Feature Removal of OS security dialog for Windows completed security review
• e10s frontend update:
  • Drew Willcoxon has being doing good work investigating e10s support for NetworkPrioritization (bug 666804 and content zooming (bug 691614)
  • Asaf Romano has been working on e10s support for inline spell check (bug 693555) and context menu (bug 516753)
  • Work is still ongoing by Felipe Gomes to get navigation support landed (bug 666801)

Performance

• Update on landing responsiveness measurement code?

GFX

• Update on accelerated layers for Mobile - still needed in the new model?

Layout

• (dbaron, bug 627842) - Mobile Readability started on-device testing
• (jkew, bug 631479) - Graphite fonts implemented (needs code review)
• (dholbert, bug 666041) - Flexbox patches WIP (been updating per recent-ish changes to spec); requesting review on first-pass patches within a week or two.

DOM

• Status update on IndexedDB work as listed in Offline Apps?
• DOM Bindings Update?
• Update on taking a picture from a web page?

Network

• Status update on NPN, which is required for the SPDY landing?

Security

Security Reviews Scheduled for this week

Date / Time	Item
Mon Oct 17 / 10:00 PST	SPDY & bug 528288
Wed Oct 19 / 13:00 PST	bug 675822 First sync desktop status page with upload progress bar
Fri Oct 22 / 10:00 AM PST	Safe Browsing Backend

Calendar and Meeting details

General Meeting Details
* IRC Channel: #security
* Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/secreview
* Dial-in Info:
** In office or soft phone: extension 92
** US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92
** Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92
** Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369
** Conference num 624

Stability Report

Desktop

Trunk

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695041 - crash in nsHtml5Tokenizer::stateLoop coming from grooveex.dll
• There was also some YARR regressions but they seem to be under control with today's build.

Desktop 7.0

• bug 694966 - New Roboform regression
• bug 694968 - crash in libvoikko-1.dll. Seems to affect Finnish users but spiked very hard
• bug 694974 - crash in mscorwks.dll with 100% correlation to IdVault.dll (White Sky IdVault / Comcast Constant Guard) - this is different than the other crash that we had
• bug 694624 - AVG Safe Search
• bug 694683 - fsecure browser protection addon - not a crash, but really bad user experience since the user keeps hanging. marcia in touch with support in their company and getting a copy of the 2012 version to test again to see if the same thing is happening
• bug 695151 - Silverlight issue
• bug 680927 - Should we try to do anything more with this bug?

Mobile

• Weekly detailed crash page - https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/crash_rep_17Oct2011

• top issue on trunk: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694964 crash [@ gfxSharedImageSurface::Open]
• bug 694987 - [birch] change the buildid to be different from the nightly to distinguish it from the nightly crashes in Socorro
  • Birch branch crash is listed in the nightly top 10 crash ( mozalloc_abort moz_xmalloc libxul.so@0x23268a )
• bug 691842 - Fennec 8.0b1 is showing no reports.
• bug 689778 - Some content crashes are not getting reported at all
• bug 689781 - Some content crashes will show in about:crashes but does not get sent to soccoro
• bug 692185 - Java crashes are not showing up in App Notes for Fennec Java Crashes

• bug 689366 : has been pushed to aurora. Thanks!

• Top Bugs in 7:
  • bug 661158 Crash on mobile SMP devices while sending PRNetAddr over IPDL [@ Pickle::ReadBytes]
  • bug 663494 - crashing occurs when trying to restart after energysaving power down; crash [@ base::CloseSuperfluousFds]