Platform/2012-10-30

Platform Meeting Details

Products/Projects

FF17.0b3 went out last Wednesday, with 16.0.2 security fixes
FF16.0.2 went out last Friday
Final CTP block tests are going up today (can also toggle plugins.click_to_play), please also continue testing SocialAPI
FF17.0b4 is going to build before EOD today

We've only got 2 betas left! If you've received a nag email today, please make sure to comment with status on FF17+ bugs assigned to you.

\o/ Progressive tile drawing is now enabled by default bug 795259, bug 803013
Fix for bug 757680 Too few touch events dispatched for drawing application has landed (yay for parapara fans)
Pref for disabling Automagic Update Downloads now works ("app.update.autodownload = never) bug 805431

Backspacing to delete words in text fields now behaves as expected thanks to JChen's fix for bug 792928. Landed and uplifted to Aurora for Fx18. SUMO, Product, and good citizens who file bugs on-the-go with Fennec rejoice.
Other happy IME news includes the freshly landed bug 712018 - International hardware keyboards input text as English qwerty (need implement IME support for hardware keyboard)

bug 795226 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoInputConnection$2.run(GeckoInputConnection.java)
bug 777460 - crash in nsNPAPIPluginInstance::CreateSharedHandle on Honeycomb and above
bug 799977 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.Tabs.loadUrlInTab(Tabs.java)
bug 803289 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.BrowserApp.onPrepareOptionsMenu(BrowserApp.java)

WinRT widget layer backport to VS2010 is mostly complete. Should land on Elm this week (bug 794983). This will remove the dependency on VS2012 and make it possible to build Metro code without breaking compatibility with Windows XP.
Continuing elm to mozilla-central merge. Some big blockers like the platform splitting work (bug 755724) that need to get finished up.
Next: Migrate Windows builders to the Windows 8.0 SDK. Initial testing work started on this, see bug 774910. We'll be migrating custom elm builders over to VS2010/8.0 next. This is a big change, QA will need to be involved in testing before we can switch. Releng is currently in the drivers seat. Goal is to get this done by year end so we can turn on metro browser bits for mc nightlies.
Product and UX are working on finalizing user stories/requirements for the initial launch.
First draft of MVP Feature list available and entered into Bugzilla, queries available at Metro Wiki Page

bug 777460 needs nom for aurora/beta
bug 760392 seems to be fixed? Fix from bug 761706 might need to be pushed to beta?

Note:

The following have traction, just need implementation which are being worked on:

Jared Wein landed a fix to prevent the awesomebar popup from opening and closing repeatedly while typing in the location bar. (bug 804968)
Dão Gottwald removed some expensive layout flushes when switching tabs if the user isn’t overflowing their tab bar (bug 752376)
Dão also changed some initialization code to run after Firefox is drawn resulting in ~10% decrease in perceived start-up time in certain cases (bug 715402)
Timothy Nikkel fixed Flash so that when run in a background tab it no longer degrades rendering perf (bug 642257)
Vladan Djeric landed a probe to measure various DOM Local Storage overhead (bug 802920) - view telemetry data

Patch Review Time	SG:Crit Resolution Time	Top Crash Resolution Time	Unresolved Aurora Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta)	Unresolved Beta Trackers (non-security)
0.0	0.0 days	0.0 days	90 bugs (92)	54 bugs(78)

(catlee) Downtime notice for Saturday November 3, 9:30am-4:00pm PT
- HG will be offline for maintenance bug 805851
- all trees will be closed