Firefox/Aurora/2011-10-18

Aurora

• Aurora add-on compat bump happened

Beta

• Sending the go for Beta once the tree stops burning (whoops)
• Status recap of third-party addon changes?

Discussion

• bug 690227 Backout of tab drag/detach animation
  • Since we landed, seen a slow but steady stream of regression bugs
  • Found some regressions were due to fundamental design issues
    • Thought we'd be able to fix them
  • The issues appear to be rather minor to a certain degree...still highly annoying
    • Compared to the state of the browser without the patch, lose the animations but have it work the same way it always have
  • Add-on compatibility is a concern
  • Since tabs are highly used, threshold is a lot higher
  • Engineering is suggesting backing it out
  • Product thinks it's a win, regressions would be worth living with for years
  • Doing the "correct" thing isn't a large expenditure, not too far out (there's a patch started)
  • UX doesn't think it is as simple as going back, there were problems with the old one as well
  • Support says they are seeing complaints, some probably edge-case or OMG change. Says that feedback is about 10x what it was for http:// hiding (3x more people with a "tab" problem than complain about crashes)
  • Engineering says that people who hit the edge cases are in really, really bad shape
• Instant Sync outage follow-ups
• Status update on 3rd party add-ons feature
  • Late in the game realized add-ons that were installing into app directory, a few in the profile
  • Decided to catch the ones in the App directory
  • Nothing we can really do about the profile, may try to address later
  • Kev is concerned about the few add-ons that will be opted-out even though the user opted-in