Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2011-11-22

Previous Actions

• Christian - to discuss 682754 with philor
  • Not done yet, sigh
• Alex - to fix up tracking-firefox10 nom list
  • Airplane homework for tomorrow

Stability

Aurora

• Crash rate seems a bit on the high side.
• Security bug 664920
• bug 702547 - js_ConcatStrings

Beta

• Some new issues logged - still need to investigate further for impact
  • bug 702217 - OOM crash in nsUrlClassifierStore::ReadPrefixes or nsUrlClassifierPrefixSet::SetPrefixes
  • bug 702901 - js::types::TypeScriptNesting::~TypeScriptNesting()
  • bug 702910 - Firefox 9b1 crashes at startup
  • bug 704460 - js_ValueToString. Mac crash - Seeing this on 10 as well.
  • bug 704488 - je_free | mozutils.dll@0x2a9f

Add-ons

Aurora

• Add-on compat by default landed
  • Preffed off
• We'll be blogging asking Aurora users to turn it on
  • There is some discussion about if other bugs should be fixed first

Beta

• Add-on compatibility dashboard

Roundtable

Aurora

• Silent update pieces are still on the table for Aurora but have not landed
  • details in bug 699700 and bug 701087
• Add-on hotfix feature is still on the table for Aurora but has not landed
  • Getting a security review on Wednesday

Beta

• Going to build later today for beta 3
  • Planning to push out on Monday due to holidays and QA short-testing previous betas
    • If you have issues with this, let me know
• Feedback:
  • Stability complaints (but maybe always the case)
  • The following issues raised an eyebrow:
    • Some Scandinavian bank login crashes: bug 704664
    • Maybe something with IPv6 (waiting for more input comments before filing)
    • Maybe something with full screen bug 694690 and bug 639705
    • "my extensions aren't showing up in about:addons. They seem to work, but nothing is listed." (waiting for more input comments before filing)

Other

• Firefox 8.0.1 is out
• 3.6 → 8.0.1 MU will come out before Firefox 9
  • Christian will send an email detailing a proposed date
• Check out dev-planning for a post about Firefox Nightly for Android going XUL → Native UI. We plan to cut over tonight
• Should we have a channel meeting this Thursday?
• Amazon Appstore submission
  • We're going to submit FF8 (in order to prevent initial submission lag time) but not post on the store
  • We're planning to submit FF9 on Dec. 20 and post when approved
  • Blockers include FF9 testing on the Kindle Fire and marketing materials
  • bug 704352 already found for making the icon larger in FF9 for the Kindle Fire

Triage

Aurora Queries

• Approval requests
• Tracking noms

• Currently tracking
• Currently tracking without fixed/wontfix/unaffected
• Approved but not yet landed

Beta Queries

• Approval requests
• Tracking noms

• Currently Tracking
• Beta approved but not yet landed
• Fixed in 8 Beta but not in 9 Beta

Actions

• Alex - to upload latest Beta file mapping to WinQual, and continue to do so on a weekly basis