Firefox/Meeting/24-Nov-2015

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General Topics / Roundtable

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

• [RyanVM] Softvision bug triage efforts underway
• [MattN] about:permissions was removed in bug 933917
  • If you see any remaining references on SUMO/MDN/etc., please correct them.
• [MattN] US Thanksgiving is Thursday and Friday
• [MattN] Are there any topics we should discuss in Orlando?
  • Removing XUL! Do we have a concrete plan / set of stages / goals ? If not can we come up with this?
  • Explanations about great-or-dead process - who decides what's next up, how do we consult the community as a whole, etc. etc.
  • More infrastructure like eslint / automated syntax checking on checkin
    • [MattN] even just setting up .eslintrc locally will be a good start
  • What will Go Faster change for Firefox browser development?
  • Is Firefox ready for Netflix's new video codec?
• [MattN] JS syntax highlighting for JSM files was added to MozReview (new reviews only?) and hg.mo today! (bug 1157502)

Friends of the Firefox team

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

• Jeff Griffiths' product responsibilities increased to include Hello, Best of Web, and Push.
• Adam Roach is now architect-in-residence across the Firefox engineering organization.
• Huge thanks to Gijs for jumping on the Heartbeat issue (bug 1226136, but there's more backstory)
• Resolved bugs (excluding employees): http://mzl.la/1IcQuxg
  • More than one bug fixed:
    • Giorgio Maone
    • Sebastian H. [:aryx][:archaeopteryx]
    • Tom Zhang
    • rthyberg
    • simplyblue24

Project Updates

Add-ons

E10s

• Only show about:tabcrashed for current tab (puts other tabs into unrestored state) - bug 1209689
• Windows Taskbar tab previews - bug 1096804
• ImgCache
• Started work on performance: bug e10s-perf
  • Telemetry experiment for beta:
    • 43: 7.5%
    • 44: higher

Go Faster

Demos in Mozlando Planning for H1 2016

• Go Faster: System addons infrastructure complete. Documented, simple, easy to ship/update, easy to localize. Teams outside go-faster building system add-ons
• Go Faster: Staged rollout of a system addon, with a/b testing, able to ship to a specified % of users
• Go Faster: Measurement infrastructure in place. Telemetry for go-faster addons. Capture usage (Q1) and errors (Q2)
• Go Faster: String delivery and updates are decoupled from trains. Go faster updates can contain string changes.
• Idea town launch: Release opt-in platform that allows us to perform controlled tests of new high-visibility product concepts in the general release channel of Firefox
• Idea town locale expansion: Expand Idea town beyond en-US
• Idea town metrics dashboard: Metrics dashboard to aid experiment authors in making decisions

Hello

• Much work done on moving to an add-on (meeting with l10n folks as we speak)
• New User Journey work, an experience focused around browser sharing, in its final stage
• Large refactor, replacing navigator.mozLoop god-object with RemotePageManager landed.
  • Necessary for running chat windows in e10s mode
  • Media team now able to reproduce insta-crash in e10s mode

Notifications

Backlog: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ALsyc0Y8k0UikZYF2fjhn2wUnFMUxYeMJioz-Q2DVlo/edit?pli=1#gid=0

• Telemetry
• Favicons in notifications
• Windows transparency should land this week
• Will enable rounded corners, shadows, and nice animations

Privacy/Security

• Insecure passwords over HTTP followup work is ongoing.
• Secure connection error page improvements:
  • notification infobar instead of modal cert dialog for weak crypto overrides
  • better visual alignment between about:certerror and about:neterror for weak crypto errors

Search

• Some followup work from the search hijacking mitigations and putting the finishing touches to the unified search and URL bar telemetry experiment that will run in January.

Windows Quality

• Panorama and about:permissions removals, changing default window size for new profiles, Windows 10 migrator/importers breakage, onscreen keyboard fixes, onboarding