Firefox/Meeting/15-Sep-2015

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General Topics / Roundtable

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

• Dolske is doing some jar.mn cleanup (for shared theme resources and paths in the files)
• Can someone give an overview of the plan for the fall/autumn "main" release in desktop-land?
  • PB 2.0 with tracking protection is the main area of focus. e10s got postponed from 42.
• Do we know what will be in the next *major* release? I mean post-42, the one that will come in the Spring?
  • ACTION: Invite Nick Nguyen to talk about this next meeting
• bsmedberg is working on a new hire onboarding plan where various "teachers" from the company will teach new hires about a topic for a half day

Friends of the Firefox team

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

• New hires!
  • Chris Rafuse
  • David Critchley
• Resolved bugs (excluding employees): http://mzl.la/1EZy6vR
  • More than one bug fixed:
    • Nikhil Gupta
• arni2033 has been filing bugs at a rather astonishing rate - 85 in the last 2 weeks!

Project Updates

e10s

• Disabled on Aurora 42 in prep for Beta
• Plan is to A/B test on Beta 43
• Unprivileged and remotely-hosted about:newtab!
  • https://github.com/mozilla/newtab-dev
  • https://github.com/mozilla/remote-newtab
• We've been working closely with the performance team to establish release criteria. The perf team is in the process of adding more instrumentation (via Telemetry and PerformanceStats, possibly other things) to give us a better sense of the non-e10s baseline for us to compare against.
  • ^-- This might be old news - I just came off of PTO.
• We're on M8 - list of bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=cf_tracking_e10s%3Am8%2B&list_id=12351245

Go Faster

• Updating system add-ons landing soon, probably not enabled until Firefox 44

Hello

• Large chunks of desktop visual refresh landed, should land key bits before 43 uplifts.

Privacy/Security

• Password import from IE on Windows <= 7 landed by Riadh
  • This is the last week of Riadh's internship. Presentation: https://air.mozilla.org/intern-presentations-riadh-chtara/
• Password fill context menu now works in username fields too (bug 1188719)
• Updated control center + notification designs e.g. no permissions subview
  • https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/PC3Y0QSRK#/screens
    • ^-- this is awesome

Search

• Search suggestions in awesomebar riding trains in 43
• Experimenting with contextual search prototype sidebar and the search box UI

Windows 10

• Continuing work on last Edge migrators, telemetry for migrators, and theme polish.
• Sheila posted a great summary of the work that's been going on over the last cycle:
  • Data Importers - we were able to get some but not all importers in for 41.
    • (41) - Import bookmarks / favorites from Microsoft Edge - bug 1192032
    • (41) - Import cookies from Microsoft Edge - bug 1192036
    • (42) - Import reading list - bug 1193387 - Landing in nightly but will likely uplift to 42 only.
    • (42) Import passwords - review is in progress but it's too late to uplift - bug 1192035
    • (?) Import history from Microsoft Edge - still working on this one.
    • (?) Import homepage from MS Edge - still working on this as well.
  • Telemetry/measurements - we have a bunch of stats we want to gather over the next set of releases.
    • (41) - Implement metrics for OS search query parsing - bug 1177246
    • (41) - Instrument tablet mode usage - bug 1181500
    • (41) - Instrument default browser prompt - bug 1191242
    • (42) - Telemetry probes for touch usage - bug 1191583
    • (43) - Telemetry for migrator usage - bug 731025
    • We are still coordinating with rel eng on the funnel cake build to test the affect of default browser prompt on usage - bug 1191060
  • UX Polish - we were able to fix most items but they all didn't make 41
    • (41) - Separator between content and toolbars - bug 1184656
    • (41) Separator between urlbar dropmarker and stop/reload/go btn - bug 1185960
    • (41) Remove hover glow behind urlbar icons - bug 1186687
    • (41) Pinned tab separators too thick - bug 1189212
    • (41) Nested toolbar buttons - bug 1194725
    • (41) Sidebar background color - bug 1198547
    • (41) Remove end padding on url bar - bug 1202287
    • (43) - Jump list icons - bug 1174141
    • (43) Find bar close icon is nearly invisible - bug 1188176
  • We made a change involves deferring the default browser prompt to second run - bug 1191250. We aren't intending this to go past Aurora for now so it's a Nightly only experiment currently.