Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-07-06

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

dsmith, ljanos, dmeehan, mboldan, amoldovan,oardelean,epopescu,mchiorean, atrif, Aryx, phorea, avaida, RyanVM, bmaris, mlobontiuroman, asoncutean, pascalc, apetridean, gnichita,

Schedule Update

• 115
• Desktop 115.0 throttled at 0%
  • We are keeping the rollout throttled while we investigate a fix for a start-up crash
  • Desktop 115.0.1 timeline will depend on this fix
• Android Fenix and Focus/Klar 115.0.1 live at 100% rollout
• iOS Firefox and Focus/Klar 115.0 in a phased rollout
• Android/iOS scheduled dot release sheduled for next week
  • gtb on 2023-06-10, go-live on 2023-06-11 after QA sign-off
• 116
  • Mobile/Desktop 116.0b1 rolled out yesterday at 25%
  • Mobile/Desktop 116.0b2 gtb today
  • Firefox iOS 116.0b1 available yesterday
• 117
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 3.61% - merge one day later = less data = higher crash rate

Beta

• Crash in [@ mozilla::TrackBuffersManager::FindSampleIndex] and [@ mozilla::MediaSourceTrackDemuxer::DoSeek ]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1838828
  • stalled

• Crash in [@ mozilla::dom::Promise::MaybeSomething<T> | mozilla::dom::Promise::MaybeResolve | mozilla::dom::WorkerFetchResponseRunnable::WorkerRun]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842017
  • needinfoed triage owner

Release

crash incidence: 0.96%

• Kingsoft antivirus DLLs hooking into Firefox which causes crashes
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837242 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837246
  • product only available in Chinese - crash reports exclusively from Chinese market
  • DLL blocking stopped working for older Windows versions (including older Windows 10 versions) with Firefox 112
  • fix is work in progress

• all channels - Frequent WebRender crash in [@ <glean_core::metrics::timing_distribution::TimingDistributionMetric as core::clone::Clone>::clone ]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835488
  • caused by bug in new Linux Kernel 6.4

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

[phorea] * macOS 10.12-10.14 and Windows 7/8/8.1 ESR Migration on “beta” update channel - completed. No new issues encountered.

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Beta 116 regression testing (round 1) - in progress. No concerns so far.
• Beta 116 feature preliminary testing - in progress. No concerns so far.
• Beta 116 top sites testing - completed, status GREEN

Mobile

[ljanos]

• Android
• Fenix RC 115.0 (build 2) [GREEN]
• Fenix RC 115.0.1 [GREEN]
• Fenix 116.0b1 [RED]
• Focus RC 115.0 (build 2) [GREEN]
• Fenix RC 115.0.1 [GREEN]
• Focus 116.0b1 [GREEN]

• Feature testing:
• [QA-1947] - Tabs Tray UI rewrite - GREEN
• [QA-1929] - Fx CM compatibility with Third party add-ons/extensions - Exploratory testing work - Complete
• [QA-1984] - Add an experiment flag that enables passing a channel ID. Append the channel IDs to the URL params - In progress
• [QA-1978] - Support Nimbus experiments in pdf.js - In progress
• [QA-1959] - In Browser Printing on Android - In progress
• [QA-1975] - Feature configuration testing for "splash screen" - GREEN

[amoldovan]

• iOS
• Firefox iOS v115 (32242) - RC 2 [GREEN]
• Firefox iOS v116 (32373) - Beta 1 - [GREEN]

• Features
• FXIOS-5736 - CC Autofill - in progress
• FXIOS-6354 - UX fund bugs - in progress
• FXIOS-3660 - Theming System - in progress

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• macOS 14 release its first publicly available build a month ago. Are people dogfooding it in-house? The new ESR 115 branch will need potentially needed fixes backported. Mentioned macOS release is "late 2023".
  • [avaida] Desktop QA is tracking this as well in https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-1973 - testing will start with the public betas

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)