Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-02-05

• Channel Meeting Details
• Tuesdays 10am and Thursdays at 8am 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

marcia, RyanVM, lizzard, philipp, pascalc, Ritu, jcristau, Aryx, Thomas, Tom,tania, dveditz, overholt

Schedule Update

Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard

• 65.0 unthrottled for all releases
  • Avast rolled out a fix on their end for the SSL connection issues
  • 65.0.1 gtb probably on Monday or Tuesday next week
  • Dot release uplifts - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GhE7SUMn4OHAACPBA8zrYb8v1TC91cXaHrri9EWbOE0/edit#gid=1009056035

• Week 2 of beta cycle. 66.0b5 shipped today (Desktop, Dev Ed, Fennec). at 100% and 25%.
• Next Tues. we will end "EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER"
  • I'd like to release a fennec beta 6 this week for this startup crash: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516665
  • Holding fennec at a lower update rate till we can ship the fix for 1516665.

Off-train releases

Current Shield studies: https://strategy-and-insights.mozilla.com/shield-studies/index.html

• Activity Stream beta smoketest has QA signoff but the team is evaluating their feedback before shipping. (Tim Spurway + team)

Stability

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 1.21, Thursday 2.89

• Latest nightly crash triage https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q1
• Filed new JS crash that seems to be more visible in nightly https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525300
• Small volume font regression: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524945
• Core | Networking crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524864, filed and fixed
• Note: Rate looks pretty low - we should investigate what is going on

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.99, Thursday 4.40

• Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521368 appears to be fixed
• crash in mozilla::psm::TransportSecurityInfo::Read: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1513458 - 1.7% of browser crashes
  • under active investigation

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.65, Thursday 4.03

• AsyncShutdownTimeout | Places Clients shutdown | sanitize.js: Sanitize on shutdown: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524200 - 4.8% of browser crashes
  • regressing in volume in 65
• VP9 tab crashes on win10 N: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521370 - 3.4% of content crashes
  • crash dumps sent to MS for investigation
• WebRTC: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524208 - 0.7% of browser crashes
• Necko: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520483 - 0.4% of browser crashes

Mobile

• Crash rate is calculated based on usage hours (the time Firefox is actively used).
• Usage hours will be significantly lower on Fennec than on desktop Firefox, so we can't compare mobile rates to desktop rates.

• Release

fennec release summary score: 22.27, Thursday 23.00

• Filed new crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525290 which is limited to API 28
• Nothing else new in the Top 25

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 18.97, Thursday 33.30

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522416 is visible in small volume in B3

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 21.27, Thursday 31.51

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521158 is still the top crash on Fennec nightly
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1420745 seems to be rising a bit on nightly, but the bug is a year old
  • Not much else to report for nightly

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

some more user feedback on 65:

• too many cookies cleared on shutdown for people with some fine-grained privacy/cookie permissions: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524674
  • has a fix and could be a candidate for a ridealong
• people who have set window colors in the registry or some 3rd party tools might find strange window borders and unexpected behaviour during resizing firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524515
• bookmarklets to open multiple popups at once stopped working: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523830
• users complaining that dark/light theme shouldn't follow windows 10's titlebar color settings: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1504766

Roundtable

• QA is adding new regression test cases for 1523701 (currently in review) that would be part of Fx66 AV testing starting tomorrow. Existing test cases involving Firefox updates have also been adjusted.
• QA Analysis of dot-release - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vaDGBxt0d4jOyg8ZE3k_JwwBtjOR-blIWaQJ9DmJZiA/edit#gid=0