Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-09-11

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays 10am and Thursdays at 8am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99951 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99951 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Release Coordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

Attendees

jcristau, marcia, thomas, RyanVM, Sebastian, Pascal, Philipp, Ritu, Tania, Tom G, Rachel, dveditz, kbrosnan

Schedule Update

Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard

• firefox 62.0 at 100% as of Friday
• fennec 62.0.1 at 100% as of Monday
• 62.0.2 candidates tracked at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14GCb_EhKPmmjKf7YhBUdrZDVZaV76ruZEeikShlVwSU/edit#gid=1009056035

• 63.0b5 shipped today (fennec + firefox + deved)
  • 63.0b4 went out at 100%

Off-train releases

• Current Shield studies: https://strategy-and-insights.mozilla.com/shield-studies/index.html

Stability

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 3.19, Thursday 6.06

• Mac Core | Panning & Zooming regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490288
• Latest nightly crash triage: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2018Q3

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.98 , Thursday 9.42

63.0b4:

• Crash in nsXBLResourceLoader::StyleSheetLoaded: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1477079 - 2% of browser crashes
• Crash in OOM | large | ... | js::gc::AllocateCellInGC: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488164 - 7% of content crashes
• Crash in scdetour.dll@0x2dd77 ("QuickHeal"): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489041 - 6% of content crashes
• Crash in geckoservo::glue::Servo_StyleSet_FlushStyleSheets: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490012 - 2% of content crashes

Release

firefox release summary score: 3.32, Thursday 8.86

62.0:

• Crash in AsyncShutdownTimeout | profile-change-teardown | Extension shutdown: *: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464938 - 7% of browser crashes
• Startup crash in nviewh64.dll@0x98c31 (Nvidia Desktop Manager): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1465787 - 0.7% of browser crashes

Mobile

• Crash rate is calculated based on usage hours (the time Firefox is actively used).
• Usage hours will be significantly lower on Fennec than on desktop Firefox, so we can't compare mobile rates to desktop rates.

• Release

fennec release summary score: 20.94, Thursday 22.62

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475218 is visible in beta. We took a fix to reduce the crashes, and that seems to have worked so far

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 34.92, Thursday 31.18

• • Filed new b3 crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490353 - will have to investigate why the model/manufacturer doesn't show.
    • Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490354 to investigate the model/manufacturer issue

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 33.40, Thursday 34.47

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490039 is currently the top crash.
  • #3 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489953 might be a signature change.

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

• bookmark descriptions deprecation - could have had better communications
• bookmark autofill not working for people without browser history: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488879
  • issue is a p1 and already has a patch (uplifted to beta, nominated for 62.0.2)
• position on screen not stored properly: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489214 - https://support.mozilla.org/questions/firefox?owner=all&tagged=bug1489214&show=all
  • regressed by early blank first paint
• webgl defects in sketchfab and some games: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489099
  • fixed via backout for the 62.0.1 fennec release but will need addressing for 63
  • will be in 62.0.2 for desktop

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Postmortem/62 - September 18