Firefox/Meeting/12-Apr-2016

Actions from last meeting

• None

General Topics / Roundtable

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

• Switched to eslint 2 so you may need to run: mach eslint --setup
• Intent to unship: add-on compatibility check in application update
• Late notice from last meeting: if you need to set prefs from the content process, you can use AsyncPrefs.jsm:
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1252855 - https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/modules/AsyncPrefs.jsm
• Uses a list of "allowed" prefs to avoid content process sandbox escapes, to which you'll likely need to add your pref.
• Collapse diffs in MozReview
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reviewboard-collapser/?src=search

Friends of the Firefox team

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

• Johann Hofmann
• Tim Chien - [:timdream] - Visiting from Taipei
• Katie Broida
• Resolved bugs (excluding employees): http://mzl.la/1NlXevj
• More than one bug fixed:
• Rakhi(:rakhisharma)

Project Updates

Add-ons

• http://arewewebextensionsyet.com/ says "Yes, I think we are". So that's good.

E10s

• Thank you so so so so so so much for working on tests. The whole e10s team is indebted to you all.
• Making good progress on performance issues. tpaint regression is mostly under threshold now. Still room and ideas for improvement there. tps is where effort is being shifted to now.
• https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perf.html#/e10s
• A team of folks under jimm and kanru are working on improving stability. We're waiting on beta experiment data to determine if it's having the desired effect.

Go Faster

Hello

• e10s: Now enabled on nightly & aurora. One main issue left that Hello team is fixing (bug 1257243), one Firefox issue (bug 1257790)
• e10s: Would like some help with bug 1262560 Investigate turning on em:multiprocessCompatible for Hello
• When we turn this on, various mochitest test runs start leaking. Removing all of the add-on core code doesn't resolve the issue.
• We're thinking about error catching/reporting in tests and at runtime
• Another substantial round of product changes in progress

Privacy/Security

• desktop Firefox no longer uses an about:certerror page. about:neterror will now be displayed in those cases where about:certerror would have been used in the past (the style differences have been carried over)

Quality of Experience

• E10S test fixes!
• QX/onboarding work...
• bug 1219810 - improve bookmarking
• bug 1017919 - preserve addons after a profile refresh
• bug 1160424 - UI notification for missing system codecs (EME/Widevine CDM)
• bug 1151449 - curly quotes!
• actually bug 1259859 is where the big batch of changes and new test were added

Search

• New awesomebar results UI in Nightly.
• Putting together a telemetry experiment report from unified-search to discuss in the team meeting tomorrow.