Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-11-30
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Channel Meeting Details
- Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
- Riot #release-drivers for backchannel
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Contents
Attendees
dmeehan, dsmith, RyanVM, Pascal, Aryx
Schedule Update
- 120
- Desktop 120.0.1 dot release live at 25%
- Android 120.1.0 is being prepped, building tomorrow for Monday signoff
- iOS 120.3 is live in a phased rollout
- There will be no desktop planned dot release on December 5th
- 121
- Desktop 121.0b5 live @ 100% rollout, b6 gtb tomorrow
- Last early beta build
- Fenix/Focus/Klar for Android 121.0b5 live @ 99% rollout, b6 gtb tomorrow
- Will bump this rollout to 100% prior to shipping b6 irrespective of QA status
- Firefox iOS 121.0b5 available to external testers (signed off by QA yesterday), b6 gtb today
- Will likely push b6 to external testers with just automated testing results, need to confirm with iOS team today
- Desktop 121.0b5 live @ 100% rollout, b6 gtb tomorrow
- 122
- No updates
Release quality metrics (Thursdays)
- https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/277284167/Beta+Quality+Metrics
- No major concerns with quality metrics, though still a number of fixes needing to land & uplift prior to RC
Desktop Stability
Nightly
crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.98% (-1.54pp compared to previous week)
Beta
crash incidence: 1.86% (+0.73pp)
Release
crash incidence: 0.79% (-0.29pp)
- [Wayland/Sway] Firefox and Thunderbird sometimes crash with "Lost connection to Wayland compositor."
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144
- under investigation what kind of work is needed
Mobile Stability
Fenix
Focus
QA
Nightly
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
Mobile
- Android
- Build Signoffs
- Feature Testing
- Build Signoffs
- iOS
- Build Signoffs
- Feature Testing
- Build Signoffs
Action items
Feature Status Review
- Firefox 121 [Beta]
- Record a new extraKey in pictureinpicture.opened_method event when user opens PiP if they have seen the first-time callout in the last 48 hours slipped to Fx122 as the work wasn’t quite ready before soft code freeze
- Allow users to Highlight & Comment on PDF slipped to Fx122 but may shift further to Fx123
- Cookie Banner Handling on Android in Germany PBM.
- iPad support for Fakespot
- Firefox 122 [Nightly]
- Fundamentals Enhancements: Browser Interaction Speed Perception/Responsiveness [Speed v1] remains challenged as the engineering resourcing for this project has been deprioritized.
- Android and iOS are preparing for a Fakespot ads experiment, gated on the results of Desktop’s ads experiment in 120.