Firefox/Meeting/07-Jun-2016

Actions from last meeting

• None

General Topics / Roundtable

(tips/tricks/FYI, productivity improvements, industry news)

• http://searchfox.org
• https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/searchfox/
• source code? ? https://github.com/bill-mccloskey/mozsearch ?
• Dropping support for Visual Studio 2013
• https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2016-June/004315.html
• New clipboard (cl) test job
• https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2016-May/004304.html
• Readable Bug Statuses in Bugzilla are live
• Generating Visual Studio project files by default
• Some more investigation into how we can use SVG for primary UI icons has been going on in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1054016#c92
• It looks like fixing https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058040 may address the perf issues.
• [mconley] You can now r- patches in MozReview
• [mconley] MozReview theme changes in the pipe. Example: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/55894/file/246/
• [dmose] this (underscribed, but.. :-) session in London may be of interest to folks here: https://mozillalondonallhands2016.sched.org/event/73DM/building-trust-before-code-unpacking-the-weekly-retrospective

Friends of the Firefox team

(Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Introductions)

• Welcome Saad Quadri from Rutgers University as a summer intern mentored by MattN based in MV. Got his first patch landed on day 1!
• Resolved bugs (excluding employees): http://mzl.la/1PfuuFy
• More than one bug fixed:
• None :(
• [MattN] Are we doing less to encourage volunteers to take another bug? I know personally I've been "busier" with deliverables and mentoring other employees instead.
• [Gijs] I wonder if the other employees/interns thing does tie into it and this is a delayed effect of the "arrival" of some of those folks. Maybe mhoye has more ideas?
• [MattN] Perhaps it's also correlated with college/university schedules e.g. people were busy with exams

Project Updates

Add-ons

E10s

• [mconley]: We're tentatively on track to ship to a non-zero segment of our release channel users for 48. See Asa's blog post: https://asadotzler.com/2016/06/06/firefox-48-beta-release-and-e10s/
• [mconley]: The e10s is slowly starting to dissolve. A team fronted by mrbkap and gabor are working on the multiple content process project
• According to blassey, all e10s bugs under your component are going to become your responsibility soon, so prepare yourselves.
• The e10s team has done an initial prioritization using the P flags in Bugzilla.
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=cf_tracking_e10s&list_id=13057657&query_format=advanced&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=%2B&order=bug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&limit=0
• Speaking for myself [mconley], not going away on e10s bugs. Happy to clean up things that are my messes, and definitely happy to consult.
• (and we're still having weekly triages)

Go Faster

Hello

• Work on Akita, adding off-line/pinboard support, continues.  Find one of us in London for an early demo.

Platform UI

• (Mostly here to call out audibles so we stay in sync)
• A reminder to sign up for https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform-ux for "Intent to Blah" email from this team, to stay notified about what we're working on
• Also, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/UI_Team
• Work has started on removing the PointerLock permission request, in favour of something like the fullscreen notification on how to escape
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1273351
• [Gijs] um, interesting. What's the security story there?
• [mconley] dveditz seems cool with it so long as we make it clear how to get out - see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1273351#c3 and following comments
• FlyWeb UI (hidden behind dom.flyweb.enabled) landed and bounced. Will likely land again shortly once a perma-orange is sorted.
• It's a standard multiview panel listing devices. Should start in the customization palette by default.
• Packaged as a system add-on, so it should stay out of your hair
• Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1272107
• Printing simplification (hidden behind print.use_simplify_page for now) uses ReaderMode to optionally strip content away from a print job
• Work is mostly being done by some folks from HP, with me reviewing.
• Waiting to hear back from shorlander for UX feedback
• Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=962433

Privacy/Security

• Preliminary work for the new permission management experience started landing.
• Firefox 49 will send the DNT signal when Tracking Protection is enabled.
• Bug 667233 - HTTP passwords are used on the HTTPS version of the same domain when signon.schemeUpgrades=true
• You will get prompted to save a duplicate HTTPS login until bug 1127579 flips the pref on by default

Quality of Experience

• Getting https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/4mc4sz/firefox_is_finally_getting_dimmed_find/ ready to land
• Whole-word find is getting close - waiting on very busy Ehsan - who's doing this? mikedeboer
• Bugs blocking shipping of Emoji font resolved - will hopefully land soon
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278350 ?
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278354 ?
• Work on auto-migration in-progress
• Adding telemetry to UI for setting the default browser

Search

• Hijacking remediation prompt landed in Fx49 (bug 1203168)
• Ongoing work to add one-off buttons at the bottom of the awesomebar panel
• Some RTL fixes for the searchbar and the search fields in about:home / about:newtab

Sync/FxA

• About Sync is now on AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/about-sync/