Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2021-12-09

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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

rpopovici,dsmith, aflorinescu, ljanos, RyanVM, dpop, mboldan, csasca, mlobontiu, atrif, asoncutean, ajoltan, dmeehan, phorea, tzsoldos, Aryx

Schedule Update

• 96.0b3 today
• Focus for Android 96 beta 1 pending review of bugs found during the test cycle
• partial sign off for Fenix 96
• Looking at potential uplifts for a dot release next week (no strong driver at the moment)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.16% (+0.03pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.03 (+0.02)

• drop in content crashes reported by mc2 because of unintended process rename in crash data: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1744500 - fixed on Tuesday, should be reflected in metrics starting tomorrow

• [@ nsHtml5TreeOpExecutor::CommitToInternalEncoding]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1745139
  • developer working on it

mc1 crash rate: 4.99 crashes/1k usage hours (+1.35)

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 2.02%, crash rate: 3.47 - data for Firefox 96.0b1 which represents only 1% of beta users

mc1 crash rate: 7.09 (+3.43)

• [@ w2c_memset]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1744460
  • out of memory crash in WOFF2 (web font) sandboxing
  • nsExpat crashes likely related
  • still needs upliftt requests to beta

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 1.16% (-0.06pp), crash rate: 1.76 (+0.52)

mc1 crash rate: 5.63 (+3.36)

QA

Beta

[rpopovici]

• Antivirus testing on Beta 96 - in progress
• Initial triage on fixes from Beta 96 - in progress
• Beta 96 Preliminary testing - in progress

[mboldan]

• Snap builds for Firefox 96 - not available

Mobile

[dpop]

• Focus Firefox Beta 96.0.0-beta.1 - YELLOW
• Fenix Firefox Beta 96.0.0-beta.1 - EOD

Roundtable & Special Topics

• the person who archives the meeting notes shall also set up the etherpad for the next meeting directly after the archiving

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 95 retro on January 4 or 11?