Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2021-05-06

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Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• Riot #release-drivers for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768
• +17207072699,,536097768# US
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

REMEMBER

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Attendees

RyanVM, ajoltan, pascal, jcristau, csasca, atrif, Aryx, lapahidean, mboldan, dcicas, obotisan, tzsoldos,

Schedule Update

• Fenix 88.1.3 & Focus 8.15.3 shipped yesterday @ 100%
• Desktop 88.0.1 shipped yesterday @ 25%, bumping to 100% today
• Desktop beta 89.0b8 shipped yesterday
  • Reminder that end of early betas is after beta 12 this cycle
• Mobile Firefox 89.0.0b5 ships today

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash rate: 2.23 (-0.12 compared to previous week), crash incidence: 1.64% (+0.07pp)

mc1 crash rate: 4.21 (+0.02 compared to previous week) crashes/1k usage hours

Beta

mc2 crash rate: 2.32 (+0.06), crash incidence: 1.77% (+0.01pp)

mc1 crash rate: 3.30 (-0.55)

• top crasher #2 [@ shutdownhang | nsThreadManager::Shutdown] got its regressing change backed out from Beta
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1704391

• Windows 7 x86 Crash in [@ OOM | large | xul.dll | BaseThreadInitThunk] - 60-150 crash reports/beta version
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1709854

• crashes with random signatures mentioned in last meeting - gsvelto identified them as hangs, plan is to exclude them until infrastructure to handle them in place
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1709423

• Printing crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1707977 will be uplifted in beta 9

Release

mc2 crash rate: 1.60 (+0.12), crash incidence: 0.68% (-0.07pp)

mc1 crash rate: 1.62 (-0.43)

QA

[sbadau]

• Mozregression difficulties on Windows 10
  • detected as malware by several antiviruses, not just a CiscoAMP false-posive
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1647533
  • does https://github.com/mozilla/mozregression/releases/tag/gui-0.9.46 work for you as workaround?
  • GUI version is affected
  • workaround: use command line version https://pypi.org/project/mozregression/
  • Aryx to talk to wlach about it

• [PI-929] Windows 10 21H1 Update - the 3rd round of testing is in progress - ETA tomorrow (May 7th)

Beta

• Beta 89 features - Preliminary reports - in progress - ETA tomorrow (May 7th)
• YELLOW reports due to large number of bugs:

** [PI-984] Proton: Elastic overscroll
** [PI-947] Proton: Tabs Bar
** [PI-921] Proton: New AppMenu/Library Menu
** [PI-957] Proton: Infobars
** [PI-958] Proton: Panels

Mobile

[Andrei]

• Firefox RC 88.1.2 - Status [GREEN]
• Firefox RC 88.1.3 - Status [GREEN]
• Firefox 89.0.0-beta.2 - Status [GREEN]
• Firefox 89.0.0 Beta 3 - Status [GREEN]
• Firefox 89.0.0 Beta 4 - Status [GREEN]
• Firefox 89.0.0 Beta 5 - Status [GREEN]
• Focus 8.15.2 - Status [GREEN]
• Focus 8.15.3 - Status [GREEN]

Roundtable & Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 88 post mortem date?
  • Tentatively 18-May @ 8am PDT