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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.6.9 and 3.5.12

• Releasing today
• In 4-7 days plan to refresh the 3.0/3.5 → 3.6.9 update offer

Firefox 3.6.10 and 3.5.13

• Schedule draft will be sent around today
• Tentative plan is to release on October 12th
• Please nominate and work on any blockers! No need to wait until the last minute when FF4 work is even more intense

Firefox 4 Beta

• beta 5 will likely ship later this afternoon or tomorrow
• beta 6 code freeze is scheduled for FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th
  • based on the number of blockers left, this date is at risk
  • would actually estimate code freeze to be a week after the 10th
  • can and should discuss more in roundtable

Blocker Report

Firefox 4 Beta

• a handy list of triage queries is available for all!
  • Beta 6: 114 blockers
  • Beta: 406 blockers
  • Final: 303 blockers
    • TOTAL: 709 blockers
  • nominations: 217 nominations

Firefox 3.6.10

• 20 open blockers

Firefox 3.5.13

• 18 open blockers

Firefox Development

(from our goals):

• [ON TRACK] Feature complete Firefox 4
  • [DONE] Switch to Tab
  • [DONE] App Tabs - Scope for 4.0 reduced (non-global), near feature complete.
  • [DONE] Extension Manager - Bug list is converging, still a lot of work to do.
  • [DONE] Web Console
  • [ON TRACK] Notification UI - Geo and EM notifications done, http auth next.
  • [ON TRACK] New Theme - Windows and Mac good, Linux catching up now
  • [DONE] TabCandy Panorama
  • [AT RISK] Silent updates on Windows
  • [DROPPED] Inspector
  • [DROPPED] Account Manager - WIP patches posted, but we can't contain the review load and code risk.

• [AT RISK] Dirty profile startup within 20% of clean profile startup (modulo extensions, plugins; on windows)
  • Current status: Lots of data has been collected and analyzed, but no solid conclusions have shaken out.
  • Details page
  • Shawn has an updated blog post. Read it for more info.
  • Bugs on file that help:
    • Excessive cookie i/o bug bug 572223 (fixed)
    • Session Restore negatively impacts startup time based on the number of tabs loaded bug 582005
    • Suboptimal SQLite page size bug 416330 (fixed)
    • Provide a global VACUUM component bug 541373

Platform

(there is a team-by-team goals breakdown, as well)

• [DONE] Javascript performance near or even with Chrome 5 on their benchmarks (within 20% on SS, 30% on V8), with substantial wins on our benchmarks. (Windows, in-browser.)
• [DONE] Hardware acceleration of video and other HTML and SVG content, as well as user interface, on by default for compatible hardware on all Tier-1 desktop and mobile platforms.
• [DONE] Fully support the WebGL 1.0 spec, with support turned on by default in a Firefox 4 beta on platforms that support OpenGL or OpenGL ES.
• [MISSED] security: zero reproducible high/crit > 30 days
• [DONE] Support multi-process Fennec.
• [DONE] Support Jetpacks running in separate processes and never blocking the Fennec UI. NOTE: jetpack team hasn't actually integrated this code yet, but it works in small test environments.

JS

JM looking good on TM tree, a few blocking things remain: bug 592960, regex problems. Some possible problems related to lack of compartments.

GFX

• Accelerated compositing using Direct3D 9 (on Windows) has been turned on by default on mozilla-central!
  • If you notice problems with Direct3D 9, please report them in Bugzilla. You will want to accompany your bug report with the Graphics section of about:support, so we can more easily work out what's wrong.
  • To narrow down whether a problem is caused by Direct3D 9, you can set the about:config pref layers.accelerate-none to true, and restart your browser.

Layout

• calc() basically done (see dbaron's blog)
• Q3 goals done
• Still targeting feature freeze: SVG images, async plugin painting
• document presentation swapping on track

Content

• Virtual properties (bug 499201) support at risk for beta5 :(

Tree Management

Roundtable