Firefox/Meeting/10-May-2016
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Actions from last meeting
- Investigate who can use @supports -moz-bool-pref("bacon.enabled") from bug 1259889
- This only works for UA stylesheets, not author ones: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1259889#c37
- A follow-up was filed for usage from chrome author stylesheets: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267890
General Topics / Roundtable
(tips/tricks/FYI, productivity improvements, industry news)
- [MattN] PSA: https://telemetry.mozilla.org only includes opt-in payloads
- E.g. compare fx_migration_entry_point on https://telemetry.mozilla.org and https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/queries/304#503
- [MattN] Related, somewhat old news: Telemetry data can be queried with SQL at https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org
- Employees can "Log In with Google". Not sure about access for non-employees.
- Example: https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/dashboard/fx_migration
- fhr-dev list and #telemetry can help if there are questions
- [MattN] I made various improvements to https://mnoorenberghe.github.io/bz-dependency-buglist/
- Descendants of P-/M- are again hidden when M-/P- are hidden
- This is useful for excluding subtrees from a project
- Discussion about GTK3 regressions on firefox-dev. Main takeaway is that backwards incompatible GTK changes were in version 3.20 so that's why we're seeing new issues.
- [past] RFC: backspace should go back on all platforms, including Linux
- [mconley] A restyling of MozReview is underway. Screenshots are in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1056377
- Also, close to being able to r- stuff - see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1197879
- [mconley] I'm doing a talk on Reading and Interpreting Gecko Profiles (for make better glorious faster Firefox) in London. Timeslot and other details soon.
- [paolo] For those with Mana access, https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PM/Taipei+Development+Center+Projects complements the https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PM/Firefox+Program page
- [mconley] Platform is piloting a UI Team. daleharvey and I are tasked with taking some of the platform load off of you fine folks.
- [Tim] Front-end in Taipei would probably work on some of these if the Platform work happens in Taipei.
- [Pike] updates from the l10n team: flod's your point of contact, https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2016/05/05/new-directions-for-the-mozilla-l10n-drivers/
Friends of the Firefox team
(Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Introductions)
- Resolved bugs (excluding employees): http://mzl.la/1VRlNJ3
- More than one bug fixed:
- Nobody :-( Find mentored bugs at http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/?internals=1&ff=1&unowned=1
Project Updates
Add-ons
- Pref to use unsigned add-ons was removed in 47
E10s
- [mconley] Preliminary 47 beta experiment data has come in.
- For the beta 1, there was an APZ-related crash that was dominating the charts, and a fix was uplifted for beta 2.
- For beta 2, we now know that the e10s (content+main) crashy-ness is about at 2x that of non-e10s (thumbnail+main).
- Preliminary data suggests that 85% of the extra content process crashes for e10s are intentional shutdown crashes
- Work for investigating and mitigating these crashes is being handled in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1271336
- [mconley] I'm working on making the initial <xul:browser> in <tabbrowser> remote by default if gMultiProcessBrowser is true (right now, we just do an immediate remoteness flip)x
- WIP patch appears to be having a fantastic impact on a number of our Talos benchmarks for at least OS X and Win 8: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perf.html#/e10s?repo=try&revision=7c570b0090ec
- This comparison is showing improvements against non-e10s, not against pre-existing e10s. So we're going to be beating non-e10s on these benchmarks.
- Hoping to have this thing cleaned up and landed late this week or early the next.
- [mconley] Other notable patch is in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269998 which will prompt users on pre-release channels to submit un-submitted crash reports for the past week or so.
- [felipe] experiment running at 50% sampling
- blocked from gtk 3.20 due to top crash
- hopefully will keep running during the entire cycle
Go Faster
Hello
- No Hello team present today.
- Working towards changes to sharing to focus more on async sharing.
- 1.3.x release going to beta users this week hopefully.
Privacy/Security
- Polish work in error pages, private browsing, audio permissions and downloads.
- Current focus is on permission management (Control Center v2) and captive portal detection.
Quality of Experience
- Refinements to "Recently bookmarked" feature, will now ride the 49 train (bug 1250203, bug 1267939, bug 1248268)
- No more userTypedClear. New private tab and error pages no longer clears location bar during load (bug 1241085, bug 1267289)
- Firefox Refresh
- No longer restricted to the selected/default profile (bug 1265368)
- Now advertised to users who uninstall the reinstall Firefox (bug 1095739)
- Reader view can now alter margin widths (bug 1151200) and line heights (bug 1269521)
- Curly quotes (and apostrophes) everywhere. Patches introducing straight quotes will fail an automated test if introduced (bug 1268159)
- Findbar improvements, including whole word search (bug 269442), highlighting (384458) and hi-dpi icons (bug 896304)
- Reader view now remembers where you have scrolled too (in both session restore & bfcache) (bug 1153393 & bug 1269996)
Search
- Many awesomebar/places performance improvements (bugs 1262887, 907001).
- Fixes for followups of the awesomebar results UI refresh.