Firefox/Meeting/13-Oct-2015

Actions from last meeting

• Invite Nick Nguyen to talk about ideas for the Spring release

General Topics / Roundtable

(tips/tricks/FYI, productivity improvements, industry news)

• [MattN] ./mach build faster
• [mconley] The Content Services team has landed about:remote-newtab in Nightly - a remotely hosted newtab page that uses messaging to communicate with the browser.
• Introducing Ryan and new Softvision desktop software testing contract
• [mconley] Callahad tried porting RES to WebExtensions: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/10/porting-chrome-extensions-to-firefox-with-webextensions/

Friends of the Firefox team

(Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Introductions)

Resolved bugs (excluding employees): http://mzl.la/1N9TgY9 More than one bug fixed:

• Manav Batra
• Richard Marti (:Paenglab)
• Steven Englehardt [:englehardt]
• Tom Schuster [:evilpie]
• Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]

Project Updates

Add-ons

E10s

• [mconley] The team continues to plow through M8. We're down to 44 bugs (which is, I believe, about 20 bugs fewer than last meeting)
• [mconley] M8 list: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=cf_tracking_e10s%3Am8%2B&list_id=12608518
• [mconley] M9 and M10 are starting to be plotted
• [mconley] A Telemetry experiment is being launched to measure the effects of e10s on subsets of our users: bug 1193089

Go Faster

• System add-on support ships with Firefox 44
• Blogged: http://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2015/10/Delivering-Firefox-features-faster
• Q4 goal is to ship Hello and maybe Pocket as a system add-on

Hello

• Visual refresh complete and landed in 43.
• 44 is refocussing on sharing, and is simplifying the UI bug 1209713

Notifications

• Basic management UI landed
• OS X native notification options landed
  • not working in e10s (2 bugs filed)
• A new XUL design/layout is in review, as well as "Do not disturb" and "disable for site" ability on XUL notifications is in review

Privacy/Security

[MattN] There will be a 2nd firstrun tab for Fx42 (and some subsequent releases) to promote Private Windows with Tracking Protection

• bug 1209140
• bug 1196547#c4 has the URL, and that's exposed to l10n already

Planning for spring/fall releases last week. Some of the most likely spring release features are:

• insecure passwords
• captive portals
• permissions in CC, notifications
• malware downloads
• TP in normal mode
• tracking detection

Search

• Suggestions are riding the trains
• Currently focusing on making all search access points have the same features

Windows 10

• Working on theming improvements
• Migration (telemetry)

This week I learned…

[mconley] nginx is pronounced "Engine X" and not "En-Jinx". Huh.

• [mikedeboer] It's Russian, too... might explain it.