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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 4

• QA: No new major issues that would obviously require an RC2.
• RC1 holding fast with users
• going to make a ship date decision tomorrow, but as Damon wrote, it looks like the 22nd of March!

Firefox 4 Mobile

Firefox 3.6 and 3.5

• Still trying to find a date for the 3.6.14/15 postmortem. Tentative date is now Monday the 28th @ 2:00 pm PDT
  • Please email Christian directly if you want to be there but this date doesn't work

• Schedule for 3.6.16 and 3.5.18 is up
  • Code freeze for non-blockers is this Thursday, 2011-03-17 @ 11:59 pm PDT
  • Code freeze for blockers is next Thursday, 2011-03-24 @ 6:00 pm PDT
  • Final release is 2011-04-19

Blocker Report

Firefox Development

No updates this week - watching for late-breaking RC bustage, waiting for product priorities to spin up on FF5,6,7.

Platform

GFX

JS

Layout

• Nothing to report

Plugins

Content

• No more netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege(*) in tests! Use SpecialPowers! -- reviewers, please do *not* accept patches that add more work for us here!

Tree Management

• http://oduinn.com/blog/2011/03/09/branch-mechanics-for-firefox4-0-fennec4-0/

Stability Report

• Firefox 4 RC
  • Over 2 million users for the past couple of days.
  • 2.8 million users yesterday - crash rate of 2.14 per 100 ADU (browser and plugins crashes)
• A few things we are watching
  • Several malware issues in top 5 - still working on this.
  • Mac only issue - Draw Plugin (#10 over past 3 days) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637367
  • Incompatibility with Real Player - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641110
  • My Search - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633447

Roundtable

• Go read Damon's post to dev.planning