Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-02-15

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

Attendees

Sir Tee-Elin, Ryan "Beef Luv" VM, dmeehan, Aryx, afischer, pascal, dsmith, jr johnson

Schedule Update

• Desktop 97.0 live @ 100%
• Fenix 97.1.0 live @ 100%
• Focus 97.1.1 live @ 25% (fixed HTTPS-Only mode missing)
• Desktop 97.0.1 and Fenix/Focus 97.2.0 dot releases likely coming in the next day or two
• Desktop 98 Beta 4 live at 100%
• Mobile Fenix 98 beta 2 at 50%
• Focus 98 beta not pushed yet to internal testing track (releng issue)

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

• mc1 data pipeline broken: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751861

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.79% (+0.09pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 2.16 (+0.35)

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

• Frequent Slack loading issues on session restore - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1752655
  • asuth needinfoed

• Wordle game not loading for some users after migration to NYT - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1755206
  • asuth involved, needs more information

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 2.23% (+0.75pp), crash rate: 1.81 (-0.39)

mc1 crash rate: ()

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 1.45% (+0.53pp), crash rate: 1.49 (+0.07)

mc1 crash rate: ()

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Beta 98 feature preliminary reports - in progress, with forecast Green except new Audio backend which is yellow
• 2nd round of regression testing - in progress

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 98 Beta
  • Remove the download modal is currently considered challenged due to a new security issue around memory leaks with PDF. Team normally reports their new status update on Friday. Hoping this work will be back on track by then.
  • Audio Remoting Core work (implement and enable a new AudioIPC layer) is for Windows ONLY. I'm working to get an update from Jim on this and what the current thinking will be for MacOS
  • Moving from repacks to langpacks removed from the forecast. New landing date is unknown.
• Firefox 99 Nightly
  • Service Worker NavigationPreloadManager API has been slipped from Fx98
  • OffscreenCanvas WebGPU backing context slipped to Fx101

SUMO Report

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1752466: Firefox not loading - Deadlock caused by WebRoot SecureAnywhere (Windows 10,11)
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1753401: Picture in Picture no working on Hulu (MacOS)
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751737 (MacOS)
• https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/23660: app crash after search is performed on specific word as the search term (Android)
• https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/9856: Bookmarks folder resetting to main folder issue (iOS)
• Contributor discussion thread for Desktop V97: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/715560?last=82896
  • Contributor discussion thread for Mobile V97: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/715563?last=82876

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)