QA/Firefox3/Planning Meetings/2006-07-12
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Gecko 1.9/FF3 Mtg - 7/12/06
Gecko 1.9
- Found perf problem
- Stuart fixed - 30% improvement!
- Mostly within 2 ms of baseline
- some pages still double - probably text measurement
- Linux
- writing xftpath (?)
- May need to fall back to pango (?)
- Mark Steele is working on this
Mac
- Coco widgits mostly working
- 15% perf regression - just from coco widgets
- Hmm... should be faster with coco native widgets
- Cairo backend goes directly to quartz for rendering - should be fast - but may need optimizing
New tP tests
- Trunk is 2x branch to complete tests
- There are nightlies that are non-cairo - these are hidden in experimental - see Vlad
- Bad perf jump occured when cairo was turned on!
Google toolbar QA team
- Found mem leak with safebrowsing
- Can plug in any extension
- Alice to call Anne - automate this?
- Darin to send Anne's info to Timr
- Darin has been working with rhelmer
GCC ability to choose
- GCC 4.2
- Incremental linking - slow on Windows. Fast on MacOS. Workarounds for linux. See dbaron.
FF3
- Sherman on jury duty - put off until next week
Vista?
- beltzner - contacted by Vista team(!) about clipboard security
- IE7 - running in low priv by default - eliminates security problems with drag and drop
- They wanted to know if we wanted to do something like this?
- Will they expose the nx bit? - heap segment not executable
- Schrep/dveditz to look into this?
Build XP and Vista versions?
- One version with extra features for Vista
- IE 7 - will screw up auto update features
- Anything with "setup" in the filename will get special handling which will break FF update!
- IE 7 - includes Arrow graphics features
- An engineer needs to own Vista migration issues
- Vista Corp release - ~Dec/Jan
- Vista Home release - ~Mar/Apr
FF3 Developer Preview
- Before FF2 final release?? - would be confusing to users
- Need to manage expectations
- FF2 UI with new graphics engine