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Notices / Schedule

• Firefox 3.6.4 code freeze was last night @ 11:59 pm PST
• Had great convergence last night, thanks!
• bug 558390 was found late last night and is now the long pole. It has landed on m-c. We want to test some m-c builds with it in before putting on the branch
• bug 558226 (loc changes) is waiting for bug 558390. Once bug 558390 is in, we'll get bug 558226.
• We are still following Releases/Firefox_3.6.4, though depending on build times we may have today's build pushed back to tomorrow
• 3.5.10 is on the backburner for now

Blocker Report

• Two open blockers for 1.9.2.4
• Bug 558390 was found late last night and is now the long pole. It has landed on m-c. We want to test some m-c builds with it in before putting on the branch
• Bug 558226 (loc changes) is waiting for bug 558390. Once 558390 is in, we'll get bug 558226

Browser / Front End

As always, planet firefox for the details! In the meantime, some notables:

• Restartless add-ons
• Extension manager UI redesign
• Services.jsm, CSS Transitions, OOPP crash UI tweaks
• Notifications redesign
• UX Update

GFX Update

• Cairo update is still blocked on bugs.

Hardware Acceleration Update

• Direct2D and OpenGL have both gotten faster over the past week. Please do test and file bugs.

Layout Update

• dbaron has patches posted for css3-values "calc" bug 363249 (awaiting review)
• dholbert posting patches for <animateMotion> bug 436418 today or tomorrow

Content Update

• TestXUL runs with multi process Necko! (jduell)

Platform-specific Support Update

JS

• been killing lots of crufty, bug-inducing detritus lately: __count__, a variety of obsolete getter/setter syntaxes that nobody uses, __parent__ coming soon too
• gal working on iteration speedups; seeing large perf wins on sunspider fasta test, both interpreter and on trace
• JM progressing too

Electrolysis

• Fennec with SysV shared memory and X shared memory (for speed at scrolling) is up and running.
• [Mac] Fixes to Core Graphics, added Core Animation support (all under review) bug 557534 bug 555281 bug 556052
• [Mac] Crash reporter fix landed today. bug 557011
• [Mac] Affected by mouse input degredation bug 558629

• Last-minute bugs found from 3.6.3plugin1 fixed
  • plugins suck: quakelive was implementing cdecl exports instead of stdcall, and we just happened to work because our calling function had a frame pointer. After refactoring, it didn't. Whoops. bug 558390

• Top crasher in OOPP in branch (3.6.3plugin1, 3.6.4pre) we need to look at:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558647

• test-ipc.xul now mostly-kinda works with remoted networking! Lots to do still, including redirect handling, lots of SSL info handling, etc.

Startup Performance

• View snapshot results for startup and all other tests.
• More details on the project page.

Security

Breakpad

• No news.
• 23 patches awaiting review from Google to give Mac OS X CFI-based unwinding and non-broken 64-bit support.
• Jim will be taking a sick dog to the vet, and may be late to the meeting.
• Ted is also out.

Tree Management

• scheduled downtime Saturday 17th April: 2pm-8pm. (2-5pm for netapp; 5-8pm for spinning back up everything)
  • closing all trees, including taking hg down, for netapp upgrade bug 502151
• unittest-on-talos project
  • need help with last of Fedora orange tests bug 554934 bug 558521
  • ok to turn off unittest-on-builder for linux, osx?
  • still working on rollout of winXP, win7
• osx10.6 64bit and linux64 builds/test/talos see summary here
  • still working on adding to release-automation; will not be part of FF3.6.4

Roundtable

• bug 502301 - initializers using ints often need explicit casts to compile with c++0x, but that would allow us to use u"" literals on newer GCCs and eventually stop using -fshort-wchar