Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2008-03-11

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Firefox 3/Gecko 1.9 Meeting Details

• Tuesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 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

Firefox 3: issues for next milestone & final ship

• Blocker Report (as of 2pm PST today)
  • 106 total, 15 P1s, 91 P2s
  • 41 blockers fixed since Beta 4 freeze (8 P1, 33 P2s)
  • 44 blockers added since Beta 4 freeze (11 P1, 33 P2s)
  • net change +3 P1, 0 P2

• Theme Refresh / Visual Polish
  • IconFactory doubling resource on Windows icon work
  • OSX icon work underway, about to lose kgerich for a week

• Awesome Bar
  • can now detect parts of tags
  • Mardak has a bunch of UE optimizations in the wings (needs review)

• Places
  • bug 384370 - JSON backup/restore - Ts hit was resolved by moving back importation of files (Cu.import + XUL.mfasl voodoo). Now blocking on bug 421943.
  • will be removing Advanced Search functionality
  • will be moving some of the Smart Bookmark queries to the Bookmark Menu (keeping Most Recent on the Bookmark Toolbar)

Platform: issues for next milestone & final ship

• Memory Usage
  • filed 15 mlk bugs over past week, one regression bug 421150, 12 P2 blockers
  • bug 421703 is first using leak gauge - not sure if it needs to block? already fixed?
  • bug 421835 found on trunk clicking around in the new Add-on Manager, reproducible in 75 % of the tests; not sure it needs to block
  • all other nominated bugs are add-on related, including 2 new Extension nsGlobalWindows Leaks.
  • Seems with this more and more compatible Firefox 3 Extensions we get also more and more Leak Reports. A little sad are comments like this from irc" a friend of a friend is saying that Firefox 2 uses less memory/cpu than Firefox 3 for him with a few extensions loaded".In this case 4 Extensions were installed and 2 of them are already on my Leak Buglist :-/ seems there is still a lot of work left here...
  • Will start next week to work with Mark Finkle on Docs and Blog Posts for Extension Devs and AMO Editors (Best Practice, Leak Tests with Leak Gauge etc).
  • Jesse mentioned yesterday that we maybe need a Meta Leak Bug for Extension Leaks, using bug 402335 for now

• X-site XMLHttpRequest
• SVG
• Printing
• MathML
• Web-based protocol handling
• Microformats - same as last week
  • 3 bugs need review/approval
    • bug 419483 - getBoxObject is deprecated
    • bug 420144 - Nested microformats sometimes aren't registered correctly
    • bug 420882 - Better geo validation
• Help (SUMO etc)
• Plug-ins - concern over flash plug-in causing repaint

QA Status/Topics

• Working on a beta 5 testplan
• Tons of b4 feedback and bugs to go through
• Planning the schedule for remaining release milestones
• Testday will be on themes and topsites. Announcement coming soon.

Security Reviews

• Completed
  • In-product AMO integration done(Mossop)
  • XMLHttpRequest User:Sicking/Cross_Site_XHR_Review one more time!
  • 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.
    • User:DCamp/Malware_Security_Review
  • about:crashes (Mossop) (Done)

Round table

• Migrating 1.9 nightlies to release automation machines
• Bringing mac 10.5 build machines online
• Top crashes: worth having a look at some of the beta 4 topcrashes -David Baron
• Proposed build & release schedule for beta 5