Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2008-02-19

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Firefox 3/Gecko 1.9 Meeting Details

• Tuesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 19:00 UTC
• Mozilla Building S - Central Area
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

Action Items

Open

• AI:peterv Help drive leak fixing

Closed

• AI:Tomcat wikify/blog your steps to find extension leaks
• AI:sicking Move content arenas patch to completion
• AI:mconnor Figure out where list of 'done' new features can get help created (basically done, SUMO team is catching up to the last set of feature changes, will be ready for review soon(TM))

Firefox 3: issues for beta 4 / final ship

• Theme Refresh / Visual Polish
  • track progress on icons in the [Firefox 3 Icon Inventory]
  • feedback about keyhole shape is positive, icon colour and polish needs work, and need to think about using the system default toolbar colour on Vista
  • landed revisions to the Windows icons on Saturday
  • bug 416531 is tracking the changes required to get Vista icons working on Vista
  • bug 367993 is getting some interesting movement on Aero glass styling, need to look at that
  • considering using Vista icons for both Vista and XP (they look really nice)
  • some OSX icons are missing, tracking with Gerich and Horlander
  • "Team Penguin" is basically done
  • Faaborg and Beltzner working together this week to crush & lay out full plan for theme success across all platforms
• Awesome Bar
  • Faaborg and Beltzner to get new CSS landed for display of results
  • continuing to polish result list
  • please keep filing performance bugs if you see them!
• Save Link As... filename fixes bug 299372
• Places
  • Drag-and-drop in the organizer working again (thanks marco, mano and many testers)

Platform: issues for beta 4 / final ship

• Memory Usage
• xsite XMLHttpRequest
• SVG
• Printing
• MathML
  • bug 363240 tables with mathml are incorrectly sized/positioned.
    • have a patch with an accurate but unloved fix.
    • may be able to have part of an approximate but more lovable fix in a week.
  • Some occasional glyph selection problems
    • Mac issues bug 416062 resolved - thanks, nattokirai.
    • Have asked STIX to consider changes that would help Windows issues bug 382542.
• Web-based protocol handling
• Microformats
• Help (SUMO etc)
• Plug-ins - concern over flash plug-in causing repaint
• mostly regression fixing and polishing, no new features
• some big ticket items:

• Performance Metrics That Need Work
  • Memory
    • Windows XP Private Bytes
    • Ubuntu Linux Private Bytes
    • Mac OS 10.4 Private Bytes
    • Windows XP Working Set
    • Ubuntu Linux RSS
    • Mac OS 10.4 RSS
  • Startup
    • Windows XP TS
    • Ubuntu Linux TS
    • Vista TS
    • Mac OS 10.4 TS
  • XUL
    • Windows XP Twinopen

Security Reviews

• Design Review Proposal
• Still needed
  • XMLHttpRequest User:Sicking/Cross_Site_XHR_Review one more time!
  • In-product AMO integration pending(Mossop)

• Completed
  • Window.postMessage (sicking and waldo)
  • Microformats (mkaply)(User:Mkaply:Fx-Docs:Microformats}
  • Distribution/Customization (thunder)(User:Thunder/Distribution Customizations Feature Proposal)
  • Password Manager (done)
  • Offline Apps (done)
  • Web Content Handlers (done)
  • Add-Ons (rob_strong) (done)
  • Places (dietrich/sspitzer) (done)
  • Cross-domain XMLHttpRequest - Done.
  • ContentEditable (peterv) - Done.
  • Malware Protection (dcamp) Done.
    • http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:DCamp/Malware_Security_Review
  • about:crashes (Mossop) (Done)

QA Status/Topics

• Tracking Top crashes, Results from Beta 3
  • bug 391311 - Topcrash: [@ nsChromeRegistry::CheckForNewChrome] during startup
  • bug 418377 - crash [@ XPCWrappedNativeScope::FindInJSObjectScope(XPCCallContext&, JSObject*, int)]
  • bug 418378 - crash [@ nsGlobalWindow::SaveWindowState(nsISupports**)]
  • bug 418379 - crash [@ nsNavHistoryFolderResultNode::FindChildById(__int64, unsigned int*)]
  • bug 418381 - crash [@ HashString(nsAString_internal const&)]
  • bug 418382 - crash [@ UniscribeItem::SaveGlyphs(gfxTextRun*)]
  • bug 418384 - crash [@ ClientData::GetOtlTable(long, unsigned char const**, unsigned long*)]
• Beta 4 Test Plan in progress

Localization Topics

• who/how check Tier1 locales are ok before saying "go" to Build?
  • Mic, as Axel is away right now.

General Discussion

• Sheriffs and other tree-watchers, please note the Tree Closures wiki page
• Build update: bug 417045 Add 10.5SDK to existing Mac (tiger) build machines
• Who will give "go" to Build? beltzner (beltzner will coord with Mic as L10n).
  • code freeze tues (26th), when "go" to Build?

Round table