Firefox/Meeting/19-Nov-2013

Details

• Tuesdays - 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
• Handy local meeting time link

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 91337
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 91337
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 91337
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
• irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel
• "Firefox" Vidyo Room

General Topics

Friends of the Firefox team

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

mconley nominates Matt Hammerly who is helping out with bug 702005! Matt came aboard after seeing jaws' MSU talk. Thanks Matt!

Project Updates

Australis

• With final perf blockers bug 936469 and bug 937519 cleared, Australis landed and stuck on mozilla-central! \o/
• Lots of bugs are getting filed. This is good. If you see something wrong in Nightly, please file a bug. Dupes are cheap. Please mark these bugs blocking australis-merge.
• Shout-out to Gijs for fixing & landing bug 919965 (Drag 'n Drop in Customization Mode overhaul)!

Thumbnailing

Foreground thumbnailing

• kind of waiting on a consensus: bug 809056 - reduce thumbnailing impact when there are no thumbnail service consumers

Background thumbnailing

• patch r+'ed, but Mark later pointed out a problem that needs addressing (not in the bug): bug 914920 - about:newtab displays thumbnail from unrelated websites for some links
• patch posted for review: bug 931889 - Fix and re-enable browser_thumbnails_background.js
• still blocked: bug 902755 - Deadlock in mozilla::ipc::GeckoChildProcessHost::LaunchAndWaitForProcessHandle after turning on new tab page thumbnails
• landed on Aurora: bug 910036 - about:newtab shouldn't load thumbnails in background when hidden by preloader
• landed: bug 908277 - Make sure the background thumbnail service can't open permission UI

SessionStore

• Removal of Synchronous initialization path landing (bug 918024)
• API for storing global session data landed (bug 899213)
• Broadcasting of tab data as it changes instead of collecting it is close to landing (bug 930967)
• billm landed a number of code cleanups (bug 930269)
• Investigation into problematic websites greatly increasing the size of the session (bug 934934, bug 936271)

Places API asyncification

Social API

• working on australis bugs
• bug 935640 removes the old style toolbarbutton and adds an overlay button for sidebar selection, this needs further ux but is a big improvement (large code removal/simplification)
• planning on several new providers to release with fx27 in january
• a couple small bug fixes will need uplift to 27 (bug 935773, bug 936712, bug 940494)

e10s

• bug 666816 All known Findbar regressions landed
• bug 673569 Let each framescript have its own scope
• bug 875871 Dev-tools for e10s
• Software compositor
• Linux sandbox

UX Updates

QA

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 1 minute!

gavin

(gavin's Status Board)

paolo

(paolo's Status Board)

mak

(marco's Status Board)

enn

(Neil's Status Board)

felipe

(felipe's Status Board)

mano

(Mano's Status Board)

ttaubert

(Tim's Status Board)

adw

(Drew's Status Board)

markh

(Mark's Status Board)

smacleod

(Steven's Status Board)

dolske

(dolske's Status Board)

mconley

(Mike's Status Board)

dao

mikedeboer

(Mike's Status Board)

gijs

(gijs' Status Board)

Unfocused

(Blair's Status Board)

MattN

(MattN's Status Board)

jaws

(jaws's Status Board)

mixedpuppy

(mixedpuppy's Status Board)