Firefox/Meeting/12-Nov-2024

Nov 12, 2024

General Topics / Roundtable

Friends of the Firefox team

Introductions/Shout-Outs

Resolved bugs (excluding employees)

Script to find new contributors from bug list

Volunteers that fixed more than one bug

• abhijeetchawla[:ff2400t]
• Collin Richards
• John Bieling (:TbSync)
• kernp25

New contributors (🌟 = first patch)

General triage

• Mandy, Scott, Tim, Tomislav, and Jeremy are this month's Firefox / Toolkit :: General triagers!

Project Updates

Accessibility

Add-ons / Web Extensions

Addon Manager & about:addons

• Fixed a regression introduced in Firefox 132 that was triggering the default built-in theme to be re-enabled on every browser startup - Bug 1928082

  • A failure hit by the new test_default_theme.js xpcshell test will ensure the default theme manifest version is in sync in both the manifest and the XPIProvider startup call to maybeInstallBuiltinAddon

WebExtensions Framework

• Fixed a leak in ext-theme hit when an extension was setting a per-window theme using the theme WebExtensions API - Bug 1579943
• ExtensionPolicyService content scripts helper methods has been tweaked to fix a low frequency crash hit by ExtensionPolicyService::ExecuteContentScripts - Bug 1916569
• Fixed an unexpected issue with loading moz-extension url as subframe of the background page for extensions loaded temporarily from a directory - Bug 1926106

• Prevent window.close() calls originated from the WebExtensions registered devtools panel to close the browser chrome window (when there is only a single tab open) - Bug 1926373

  • Thanks to Becca King for contributing this fix 🎉

• Native messaging support for snap-packaged Firefox (default on Ubuntu):

  • Thanks to Alexandre Lissy for working on finalizing the patches from Bug 1661935

  • Fixed a regression hit by the snap-packaged Firefox 133 build - Bug 1930119

WebExtension APIs

• Fixed a bug preventing declarativeNetRequest API dynamic rules to work correctly after a browser restart for extensions not having any static rules registered - Bug 1921353

DevTools

DevTools Toolbox

• Abhijeet Chawla updated some of our code to avoid using deprecated React lifecycle methods (#1810462, #1810437)

• Jeff Muizelaar added profiler markers for debugger log points (#1928514)

• Alexandre Poirot added the ability to record console API calls and DOM Mutations when tracing to the profiler (#1929007, #1929004)

• Alexandre Poirot made it possible to search for traces by function call argument values (#1921020)

• Alexandre Poirot improved webextension debugging by automatically switching to the expected document on hover when inspecting webextension UI (e.g. sidebar, popup, …) (#1754452)
• Nicolas Chevobbe is still working on adding support for High Contrast Mode in the most used panels (#1916391, #1926878, #1917782, #1926794), #1926851, #1926852, #1916698, #1920711, #1927063, #1926983, #1916650, #1916656, #1921758, #1916682, #1916693, #1916721, #1928108, #1916722, #1916660, #1929200, #1929594, #1916669, #1929508, #1930099)
• Hubert Boma Manilla fixed the "Go to line" palette + Cmd/Ctrl+B to add a breakpoint on the line the user jumped to (#1925974)

WebDriver BiDi

Desktop Integrations

Downloads Panel

Credential Management

Fluent

Form Autofill

Lint, Docs and Workflow

• A change to the mozilla/reject-addtask-only has just landed on Autoland.

  • This makes it so that when the rule is raising an issue with .only() in tests, only the .only() is highlighted, not the whole test:

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• • This should make it easier to develop tests whilst using .only().

• The ESLint curly rule has now been re-enabled, after it was accidentally disabled.

Information Management

macOS Spotlight

Migration Improvements (read-only)

• mconley landed a patch that makes it so that automatic backups don’t get regenerated if a cookie expires “naturally”
• mconley also landed some probes to get a sense of how the backup service is performing in the wild, and what errors it is hitting

New Tab Page (read-only)

• The team is working on some new section layout and organization variations - specifically, we’re testing whether or not recommended stories should be grouped into various configurable topic sections. Stay tuned!

Nimbus / Experiments

Password Manager

PDFs & Printing

Picture-in-Picture

• Thanks to kern25 for:

  • Updating our Dailymotion site-specific wrapper (bug), which also happens to fix broken PiP captions (bug).

  • Updating our videojs site-specific wrapper (bug) to recognize multiple cue elements. This fixes PiP captions rendering incorrectly on Windows for some sites.

Performance

Performance Tools (aka Firefox Profiler)

Places

Privacy & Security

Profile Management

Reader Mode

Screenshots

Search and Navigation

• Scotch Bonnet has now been enabled on nightly builds

  • More details and feedback thread.

  • We are working towards a change where the dedicated search button won't be shown permanently.

• Weather suggestions have also been enabled in nightly (US only, as part of Firefox Suggest)

• Scotch Bonnet

  • daisuke changed shift-tab so that after focusing the address bar (e.g. ctrl-L), the dedicated search button is focused.

  • jteow fixed an issue where search mode was transferred to other tabs.

• Address Bar

  • Yazan fixed a regression where favicons could take a while to appear on the address bar.

• Search

  • Moritz has been working on re-enabling support for the search form to OpenSearch engines & adding it to the search configuration. This is accessed by shift-clicking on one of the engines under the dedicated search button, or on the engines in the separate search bar.

  • Moritz has also been working towards improving search engine support for differently sized icons.

  • Standard8 fixed some no-shadow ESLint warnings and test manifest ordering warnings in search code.

Storybook/Reusable Components

• [hjones] welcome Mark Kennedy!

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