Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-03-21

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

dsmith, dmeehan, RyanVM, JR Johnson, Aryx, tania, telin (Yep, I'm still here), dveditz, bittin

Schedule Update

• 111
  • 111.0.1 desktop dot release underway will go live @ 25% rollout later today
  • iOS Firefox/Focus/Klar 111.1 live with a phased rollout over 7 days
  • Android Fenix/Focus/Klar 111.1.0 has QA sign-off will go-live @ 25% rollout later today
  • iOS Firefox 111.2 and Android Fenix/Focus/Klar 111.1.1 scheduled for 2022-03-28
• 112
  • Desktop/Mobile 112.0b4 went live 2023-03-19
  • Desktop/Mobile 112.0b5 gtb today
  • End of early beta 2023-03-24
• 113
  • Nothing notable this week

• No word on pwn2own yet
  • any idea on when can we expect more info (when Firefox will be targeted?), it will be good to know to request weekend testing support for SoftVision

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.38% (pp compared to previous week) - elevated, driven by Linux at 3.50%

• frequent crash in [@ mozilla::LinkedListElement<T>::setPreviousUnsafe]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1822907
  • nightly-only feature, no visible work on a fix yet

Beta

crash incidence: % (pp), crash rate: ()

Release

crash incidence: 0.65% - normal range, better than 110

• Crash in [@ mozilla::layers::NativeLayerCA::NotifySurfaceReady]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1658986
  • fixed in 111.0.1

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• Dot Release 111.0.1 build1 and build2 signed off Green, Bug 1823159 however could not be verified

Nightly

• New features – Currently in late planning phase, with Nightly testing scheduled to start next week (where needed)
• Regression testing – Top sites testing and Autofill testing scheduled for next week

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• New features
  • Quality currently trending Yellow due to Bug 1823608 (S2 regression) impacting QA-1683 - Awesome Bar Result Menu, however a patch is already in the works and hopefully we’ll be able to test it before we share the preliminary report tomorrow
• Regression testing
  • Regression testing (1 of 3) signed off Green – 2 new bugs (non-regressions): 1822999 (S3), 1822997 (S4)
  • Tier 1 top sites testing signed off Green – no new bugs
• Build validation – 112.0b3 and 112.0b4 signed off Green (no new bugs reported)

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

• Tracking windows startup freeze: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fpJOXkqTlO1bn0acxtby33TijciXKLFhGuYQAx0wPU4/edit#
• Several reports of Mac users not being able to drag and drop files from the downloads button drop down and/or Downloads list to their Mac desktop
  • https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1408246, https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1408495, https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1408594, https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1408603, https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1408612, https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1408620

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Headsup! Romania QA will be out - April 14-17 (Orthodox Easter)
• Pwn2Own -- no response from ZDI despite multiple attempts to get more info. We might not know until the random draw tomorrow morning

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)