Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2021-11-09

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• Riot #release-drivers for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768
• +17207072699,,536097768# US
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

Attendees

RyanVM, Pascal, Aryx, Audrey,dsmith, vbalducci, cguerrero, dmeehan, Luna, dveditz, telin

Schedule Update

• Desktop 94.0.1 now live in the Microsoft Store https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-the-first-major-browser-to-be-available-in-the-windows-store/
• No certain dot release drivers yet, but possibly one coming for FxSuggest
• Fenix/Focus 94.1.2 shipped today @ 100%

• Desktop 95.0b4 shipped yesterday
• Fenix 95.0b2 shipped today
• Focus 95.0b3 shipped yesterday
• Reminder that we have a 5 weeks beta cycle for 95, that means 12 desktop betas instead of 9. The EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER flag for experimental features will be reset after beta 9.

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.80% (+0.21pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 2.30 (+0.23)

mc1 crash rate: 5.10 crashes/1k usage hours (-0.75) compared to last Thursday

• crash incidence increased by changes which got backed out as a consequence of the crash rates
  • [@ mozilla::gfx::DrawTarget::PushLayerWithBlend] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1739661
  • [@ dav1d_cdef_filter_8x8_8bpc_avx512icl], [@ dav1d_lpf_h_sb_y_8bpc_ssse3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1739910 - from AV1 video codec update
  • [@ mozilla::dom::ClientHandle::Control] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1731982#c36

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 1.93% (+0.95pp), crash rate: 2.10 (+0.17)

• incidence was very low last week, now slightly elevated from spellchecker sandboxing crashes in Firefox 95.0b3 32-bit version on Windows, change got reverted for 95.0b4
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1739669

mc1 crash rate: 5.04 (-2.36) compared to last Thursday

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 1.10% (+0.32pp), crash rate: 1.44 (-0.16)

mc1 crash rate: 3.00 (-3.26) compared to last Thursday

• macOS graphics crashes after OS update: unchanged
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1738289

• increase in shutdown crashes which started 2 weeks ago has subsided and identified as related to Windows updates installing
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1738984

• [@ pvc.dll | LocalBaseRegOpenKey]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1739336
  • crash stopped on Friday evening, Aryx had mailed company a day before

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

Dot release released today No Crashreports so far

QA

Nightly

• [QA-1270] Support Microsoft PDF handler - not started, waiting for an answer to schedule the kick-off
• [QA-1170] New audio backend infrastructure - uncertain if this will continue with Fx96 milestone at this point
• MR2 [QA-1207] Remove the download modal - mid Nightly96 test-report expected EOW

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• 1st round of regression testing is in progress - no new issues encountered so far
• Antivirus testing is in progress - no new issues encountered so far
• [QA-1195] - breakage testing shall be started on thursday (11.11)

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 95 (Beta)
  • All features reported as 'On track'. This is the first Beta cycle managing the feature list out of Jira. Working to ensure a regular update cadence among the various feature owners.
• Firefox 96 (Nightly)
  • All reported features remain 'On track'. Chiseling through the original proposed feature list to see what is actually targeting Fx96.
  • Several features are still being vetted and/or having their project plans develoed. (read; likely to slip out of Fx96)
    • Telemetry needs for MR1 2022 (https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/FIDE-611)
    • Support microsoft-edge default work (https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/FIDE-610)
    • Support pdf default work (https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/FIDE-609)

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx94 retro on Nov-30, invites to come