Firefox/Meeting/19-Jan-2016

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General Topics / Roundtable

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

• "./mach run --devtools" will open the devtools on the first tab
• eslint update
• ForceRTL is alive and now restartless: https://github.com/mikedeboer/ForceRTL
• artifact builds are awesome
  • now with test support! (I mean, you can actually run tests with the build you get, which is useful.)
• intern interviews will be starting soon. Apply now: https://careers.mozilla.org/position/oCGh2fwl

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/1ZJbKs4 More than one bug fixed:

• Anup Kumar [:Anupkumar]
• Giorgio Maone
• Kevin Grandon :kgrandon
• Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]
• Patrick
• Penh Lenh
• Philip Chee
• Sami Jaktholm
• Sebastian H. [:aryx][:archaeopteryx]
• simplyblue24
• Tyler Steiman
• Vidhuran Harichandra Babu

Project Updates

Add-ons

E10s

1. e10s tests https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10UeyRoiWV2HjkWwAU51HXyXAV7YLi4BjDm55mr5Xv6c/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0
2. experiment on 45 beta
3. release on 46 for no add-ons users

Go Faster

Hello

• Now moved main development to a github repo:
  • https://github.com/mozilla/loop
• We'll be having frequent drops to m-c and the other branches.
• Aiming for a try out of the go faster update system sometime in the next week or two.
• There will be some different flavours of the add-on that will allow for pre-release testing and being able to demo the latest changes to various users (e.g. user feedback).
• Still trying to get e10s support landed (keep hitting crashers)

Notifications

• Shipping in Fx44. QE has signed off.
• Favicon support developed. Landing soon.
• Development is now focused on stabilization/follow-ups
  • Jared and MattN have moved focus to other teams

Privacy/Security

• Tracking protection in normal mode option

Search

• Telemetry experiment for the unified urlbar with one-off search buttons is currently live on the beta channel

Quality of Experience

• Turned off on-screen keyboard for windows 8 in 44 due to a number of issues
  • Going to continue improving the osk experience
• Working on onboarding (not Windows-specific) and bookmarks (also not Windows-specific)