Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-09-05

Channel Meeting Details

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

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 266 532 573
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/266532573
• +17207072699,,266532573# US
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

REMEMBER

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Attendees

• marcia, RyanVM, csasca, vlucaci, ccomorasu,ajoltan, drus, sflorean, philipp, dcicas, Ritu,adrian_sv, lapahidean, acupsa, mboldan, btot, tbabos, tania

Schedule Update

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

• 69.0 currently at 0%, deciding today about unthrottling
  • Bug 1578597 is the main bug blocking, but investigation is proceeding and may end up being wontfix
  • Also investigating bug 1578807 (see SUMO section)

• • Desktop & DevEdition 70.0b4 gtb today

• • Fennec 68.1 bump to 100% today if no blockers identified

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• 10.15 latest seed (19A546d) - possible issue with crash reports not being submitted correctly - see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579048

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 3.82, Tuesday 6.25

• One day Spike in a resolved fixed bug in 9-3 builds, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570950.
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575163 continues to be the #3 overall top crash, and is visible in beta as well
• Small volume font crash was resolved fixed, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576846. Feature not enabled by default
• 10.15 specific crash when loading a specific URL - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578075

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 7.19, Tuesday 3.74

• Spike in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578416. ni on Jamie. Asa has reproducible test case
• MC Shows a spike in Mac content crashes, see https://missioncontrol.telemetry.mozilla.org/#/beta/mac/content_crashes
  • this is due to low adoption

Release

firefox release summary score: 4.46, Tuesday 4.96

• Intel Gemini Lake CPU spike has moved up to #5, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578722
• #1 top crash after OOM|Small is longstanding https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1513855
• #6 overall top crash has a fix, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1571686

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.

Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 81.00, Tuesday 81.41

• Reproducible crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573479 is at the top of crash stats.

Beta

fennec beta summary score: 56.37, Tuesday 56.43

• Other than a few single install crashes, didn't see anything else

Release

fennec release summary score: 19.57, Tuesday 19.58

• New Top crash in JS - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535346. Awaiting ni on kmag
• new Top reproducible crash with copy share to clipboard - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573479

Fenix/Firefox Preview

• Nothing specific to call out today

QA

Beta

• Started round 1 (out of 3) of Antivirus testing.

Mobile Stability

[Laurentiu] - Firefox Beta 68.2b1 build 1 - Sign Off with status GREEN - Firefox RC 68.1 build 1 - Sign Off with status GREEN - Fenix RC 1.4.0-rc1 sign-off GREEN

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

• two reports of search engines gone after 69 update: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578807