Firefox/Projects/OOPP

Ship out of process plugins and associated UI pieces to Windows users.

Status

• IN FLIGHT
• Project Lead: bsmedberg
• Project Members: dolske (UI), other OOPP/E10S folks
• Lorentz string work complete, 3.6.3plugin1build2 due this week.

Goals

• Implement a UI for use when a plugin crashes.
• Stabilize and ship OOPP in a release.

Non-Goals

• Full E10S (Out-Of-Process Tabs)

Timeline / Milestones

• trunk Alpha 1 -- OOPP pref'd off
• trunk Alpha 2 -- OOPP UI landed and OOPP on by default for Windows

These are the bugs of interest:

Bug	Owner	Status
bug 550293 - plugin-crashed UI needs more user opt-in	dolske	UI design
bug 538910 - Need a "plugin crashed" UI	dolske	landed
bug 478976 - (OOPP) Electrolysis + plugins tracking	bsmedberg	meta
bug 538910 - Tracking release of Firefox Lorentz Beta 1 with OOPP	bsmedberg	meta
bug 554759 - Tracking release of Firefox Lorentz Beta 2 with OOPP	?	meta

Requirements

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Dependencies

None

Testing

• QA Contacts: tchung, Juanb, Marcia
  • Working OOPP Testplan (includes all OOPP)
  • Will hold a testplan review and coordinate automated vs manual tests
• New UI
  • Reftests implemented (not yet landed)
  • Looking at Mochitests
  • Probably will need some Litmus tests

Related Projects

None