Platform/2010-11-30

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Firefox 3.6.13 and 3.5.16

• Created build #2 today, with a fix for bug 614565
• Still plan to release on December 9th

Blocker Report

Firefox 4 Beta

Blocker report for Firefox 4.0.beta8 (as of 2010-11-30 11:03:00.963342-08:00)

Overview
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4.0.beta8
      blocking: 188
         fixed: 164
          open:  24

Open Blocker Assignees
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   Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]:   6 ++++++
                  Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap):   2 ++
              Michael Morgan [:morgamic]:   2 ++
                        Andreas Gal :gal:   2 ++
    Nobody; OK to take it and work on it:   2 ++
          Josh Aas (Mozilla Corporation):   1 +
              english-us@evangelism.bugs:   1 +
                      Axel Hecht [:Pike]:   1 +
                         Jason Orendorff:   1 +
                  Chris Leary [:cdleary]:   1 +
                  Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan]:   1 +
                        Myk Melez [:myk]:   1 +
                   Jason Duell (:jduell):   1 +
                         general@js.bugs:   1 +
                 Wesley Johnston (:wesj):   1 +

Firefox Development

(from our goals):

Firefox

• [AT RISK] Finish Firefox 4
  • 160 Firefox/Toolkit blockers

• [ON TRACK] API-Complete Jetpack
  • Joint with Jetpack team
  • Currently working towards feature-complete beta SDK

• [ON TRACK] Stand up basic Firefox with Electrolysis
  • Joint with Platform
  • UI may not be functional, should launch and open a web page.
  • Project tracking page

Developer Tools

• [NEW] Finish Firefox 4 developer tools
  • 15 blocking developer tools bugs

• [NEW] Ensure that Firefox 4 ships with a compatible version of Firebug

• [NEW] Publish a roadmap for integrated developer tools in Firefox, including console, inspection, and js debugging

• [NEW] Develop long term plan for Skywriter maintenance/support

Platform

(there is a team-by-team goals breakdown, as well)

• [DONE] Javascript performance near or even with Chrome 5 on their benchmarks (within 20% on SS, 30% on V8), with substantial wins on our benchmarks. (Windows, in-browser.)
• [DONE] Hardware acceleration of video and other HTML and SVG content, as well as user interface, on by default for compatible hardware on all Tier-1 desktop and mobile platforms.
• [DONE] Fully support the WebGL 1.0 spec, with support turned on by default in a Firefox 4 beta on platforms that support OpenGL or OpenGL ES.
• [MISSED] security: zero reproducible high/crit > 30 days
• [DONE] Support multi-process Fennec.
• [DONE] Support Jetpacks running in separate processes and never blocking the Fennec UI. NOTE: jetpack team hasn't actually integrated this code yet, but it works in small test environments.

GFX

• 123 betaN, final, and Fennec blockers
• OpenGL composited layers on Fennec update (jrmuizel)
  • Sort of usable now, patches need to be finished before they can land though.
  • Performance work still to be done.

Layout

• Blocker count slowly dropping, now 108
  • Many bug fixes in hand
• Lots of editor/contenteditable fixes have landed (ehsan)
  • Google Docs features that were disabled for Firefox (spreadsheet formula syntax highlighting) will be enabled for Firefox 4

Roundtable

• Infallible malloc (added to agenda by Jesse)
  • We talked about this for 10 minutes but decided it need its own meeting, Platform/InfallibleMalloc. Notes have been moved to that meeting's page.
• Crash Update
  • Crashes on trunk down considerably - ~5/100 active users.
  • In pretty good shape for Beta8
  • Any stability risks in remaining beta8 blockers we should be aware of?
• Don't forget to file bugs when you see problems in nightlies.