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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• in QA, on track for mid-December release

Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7

• no schedule for either release yet, should have one by the end of the week
• tree should open in early December

Firefox 3.6 Beta

• beta user base is now over 450,000
• beta 3 refresh shipped last week
• component lockdown effects?

Firefox 3.6 RC

• late on RC freeze

Blocker Report

See more Firefox 3.6 related blocker queries, or learn about the new status and blocker flags

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 46 OPEN (-51 w/w)
  • 23 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-8 w/w)
  • 12 nominations (-21 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • 100 requests (-11 w/w)
  • 7 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-10 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

(Progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox)

• see our active projects and get involved / propose others
• Namoroka/mozilla-1.9.2 front end development:
  • 8 blockers left, 4 are crashkill
  • bug 520535 needs a patch
  • the other three need review (Neil Rashbrook is sick, Neil Deakin is out)
  • should be done in next 24 hours
  • keeping nomination list down with constant review, so far no major concerns other than late breaking Toolkit dependencies coming in from Fennec

GFX Update

• 2 blockers; one is waiting on review, the other is a mobile blocker (kerning) that has not seen traction yet.
• 2 noms; 1 might be build config related and if so should not block, the other has a reviewed patch and probably shouldn't block, but should be approved.
• Jonathan Kew's font enumeration Ts patch is looking good, and has passed review from John Daggett.
• And now, for the Direct2D in Firefox show, starring Bas Schouten!
  • Bas's blog post on Direct2D was featured in a cnet news article on Direct2D in Firefox.
  • Direct2D provides vector graphics rendering on the GPU. It is implemented as a backend to cairo.
  • Large performance improvements in scrolling.
  • Large improvements in dynamic websites using a lot of transformations and blending operations.
  • Possible implementation strategies:
    • Switched on for all D3D10+ cards, blacklist buggy hardware.
    • Switch off by default, whitelist hardware/driver versions.
    • Possibly additionally whitelist D3D9 cards.
• bug 470440 Going to implement sub-pixel positioned text rendering on Linux, hoping to have working code by early next week

Layout Update

• Blocker report
  • Several blockers added and fixed in the last week
  • 1 nomination (arrived 30 minutes ago)
  • 3 blockers with patches
  • 1 crashkill (not a hard blocker IMHO)
• Still evaluating crashes revealed by frame poisoning
  • Largest-volume crash fixed, probably fixes for one or two others
  • Most have no steps to reproduce, some seem inexplicable
  • Need a judgment call on remaining volume
• Video on N900
  • Theorarm decodes 100fps on "reasonably sized video", beating current DSP decoder (on speed if not power)
  • Plan on using GL for YUV decoding, not this quarter
  • Experiment with standalone player
  • Pulseaudio takes 10-15% of CPU!
• Instructions for setting up record and replay
  • Any particular test we should look at?
  • Need Windows loopback interface sniffing

Content Update

• One blocker left (security bug)
• Ben Newman got JPW talking across processes.
• Jonas Sicking went through and caught up with the spec and cleaned up some minor problems in our new DOM file API additions.
• Continuing with crashkill work
• HTML5 parser update (hsivonen)

Platform-specific Support Update

JS

• Blockers:
  • Some fixed on TM tree, one test failure after m-c merge holding things up
  • Merging to 1.9.2 ongoing
  • Many new fuzzbug / QA bugs recently
  • JS team will meet to discuss each JS blocker at 2pm PST

Startup Performance

Summmary

• Read the latest weekly update.
• View snapshot results for startup and all other tests.
  • bug 517804 was a big win for Mac warm startup, putting 3.6 at 35% faster than 3.5.

Activity

• Joel has some data on his super-static Firefox in bug 525013. Inconclusive so far.
• Ben is making progress on the fastload replacement in bug 520309. Some fastload/invalidation discussion in this dev.platform thread.
• Taras has patches up for service caching (bug 516085
• Super-fast-path-ing of Components.* needs some JS team help: (bug 512584).
• Looks like a final patch on bug 519445, for reducing Mac startup time spent in font system initialization.
• Ryan Flint put a patch to minify JS on bug 524858, needs work still, but significantly reduces the size of shipped JS files.

More

• More details on the project page.
• Join us on IRC in #startup.

Security

pending reviews

Top Security Bugs

Session Cookie Policies

• Lucas filed bug 530594 to propose that we forcibly expire session cookies after 7 days; we need feedback from people here and from web developers
• also wondering if we should have an explicit option to always expire session cookies whenever the browser quits, even if the user chooses to save tabs or if there is a restart for add-on or application install/update.
• Related bugs:
  • bug 529899 to have session restore not save session cookies if the user has set Firefox to expire all cookies on shutdown
  • bug 529644 is about rewording the "Save and Quit" dialog to explain that session cookies will be preserved

Electrolysis

Tree Management

• Downtimes
  • Try server repo needs resetting. Will be down for around 1 hour. Tomorrow night or next tuesday.

• b4 / rc1 scheduling

Roundtable

• we think we've fixed a sigificant number of the 3.6b3 topcrashes (see Sam's nice table) (dbaron)