Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-07-20

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99951 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99951 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Release Coordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Attendees

jcristau, marcia, mtabara, philipp, asimonca, lizzard, avaida, petruta, Ioana , mboldan , carmenf, RyanVM, Sorina, Nicole, Cristian, Camelia, Alexandru,,poiegas, Julia, ritu, oana, bogdan_maris

Schedule Update

• 55.0b11 gtb today
  • screenshots update delayed due to https://github.com/mozilla-services/screenshots/issues/3153

Stability

[marcia]

• Still blocked on symbols for MacOS 10.13: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1381354

Nightly

awsy rate: 5.72 (browser: 2.62, content: 3.09) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 20.06 (last week: 5.71, this time last cycle: 5.98)

[marcia]

• Nightly rate continues to stabilize after several crash spikes this weekend and earlier this week
• Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1380267 is waiting on the addon developers to help
• #4 Top Crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1368887 is now fixed
• Explosiveness report shows a few new crashes: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-07-19/2017-07-19.firefox.nightly.explosiveness.html
  • One is a stylo Win32 issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1382190

Beta

awsy rate: 0.97 (browser: 0.75, content: 0.23) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 4.55 (last week: 4.49, this time last cycle: 3.53)

[philipp] 55.0b10

• mozilla::SandboxBroker::SetSecurityLevelForContentProcess signature spiking up (>300 installations) starting from tuesday: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1352192
  • symptoms look like a mismatch of files after a firefox update
  • comment & modules at https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/6363c7b7-fa1d-45ed-9a2e-2c4470170718 indicate it might be related to sandboxie (external app)
• Crashes in mozilla::ipc::MessageChannel::Clear | ... | mozilla::dom::PContentParent::~PContentParent: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1363601 - 4.6% of browser crashes
  • reports quadrupled on beta with the e10s-multi rollout
• Crashes in LongestPhaseSelfTime: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366217 - 0.75% of browser crashes
  • additional diagnostics patch landing in today's nightly
• [@ sse2_fill ] signature springing up in b10 for a few older intel gpus - 0.75% of browser crashes
  • looks jumpy & build-specific in crash data from older version - will watch how it goes in b11 before filing a bug
• Crashes with mcafee aren't declining much after they have reportedly released their update last week - will prepare a dll blocklisting patch for the older versions

• most of the other top crashers have patches now:
  • JS script preloader crashes: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1382329
  • Intel graphics driver crashes: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1359416
  • Firebug crashes: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1373220
  • [@ strlen] necko crash: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1380909

Release

awsy rate: 0.77 (browser: 0.55, content: 0.22) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 2.80 (last week: 2.67)

[marcia]

• Explosiveness report looks quiet: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-07-19/2017-07-19.firefox.release.explosiveness.html.

Mobile

awsy rate: release 0.59, beta 1.11, nightly 2.25

[marcia]

• Mobile rate looks good across all three channels
• Filed a new WebRTC bug which affects all channels: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1382681

QE

Nightly

• [Andrei] Pre-Beta feature sign offs will be completed by July 28 - preliminary status reports are currently being sent out.
• [Julia] DevTools is converting to a system add-on for Fx 56, but with no updates pushed and no visible changes
  • The feature was postponed for Fx 57
  • Per Julian Descottes, no testing will be needed in 56 Nightly's time frame -> pre-Beta feature sign off will be skipped
• [Alex] Started testing Firefox compatibility on macOS 10.13 High Sierra. Will have results by Monday EOD.

• telemetry experiments (not SHIELD) are showing warnings to users.

bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371363 example of warning: https://bug1367246.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8870929

Aurora / Dev Edition

• [Petruta] We will be holding Firefox Developer Edition 55 Beta 11 Testday tomorrow, July 21: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/testday-20170721

Beta

• [Andrei] Pre-Release feature sign offs are in progress and will be completed by July 21.
• [Julia] Firefox Screenshots
  • The Pre-Relase feature sign off testing is in progress - there are still concerning issues that affects 55Beta (see the query https://goo.gl/twKJJs )
  • The current feature status seems to remain YELLOW
• [Cristi] Separate Content Process for loading file:// URI pages : Testing is ongoing, so far it is green, we still need to test it on Ubuntu.
• [Cristi] WebVR : Testing is 25% done. We found some potential issues (https://goo.gl/4nC6kE )
• [Brindusa] Preferences Performance Pre-Release feature sign offs testing in progress - logged one bug 1382649 - waiting for engineering feedback on this.

Mobile

Nightly

• YELLOW- MMA SDK Integration, Bookmark Management, Make Gecko native support HLS on Fennec,
• no previous status - Android WebExtension API
• GREEN - Add-On to the 1st level menu, W Encoder for WebRTC on Android

Beta - Fx 55

• GREEN - Shutdown decoder, Font Inflation, Tab Reordering
• Fennec 55 Beta 10 signed off without major issues

Pending final decision - considered 56 still

• Drop Android 4.0 (API 15) support, Flash Deprecation